ok guys yesterday I OC'd my cpu to 3.0Ghz... Knocked it down to 2.8Ghz and ran Prime95 for 8 yrs... and then Prime95 blend for 12 hrs with no errors.. I thought I was good to go... Shut off my computer and went to work. I don't know if my problem is OC related but I thought I'd mention it. I got back an hour ago, turned my computer on, was surfing the web when I got a BSOD. The error said something about ati diag (I have it written down if u need the exact message)... Anyway, after this I rebooted, at which time my computer froze at the Gigabyte logo on startup... I rebooted again, and got a "Bios recovery..." message... after a minute, it rebooted on its own... This happened 3 times, and now it just reboots over and over and over again... No messages, no display, nothing... just constant reboots. What do I do?
I've tried clearing cmos via jumpers, and the battery... I tried removing/reseating video card since the original BSOD was ati related... I don't really know... Is it a bad motherboard? bad power supply?
specs:
Gigabyte EX38-DS4
E2160
MSI Radeon HD3870 OC edition
corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 (2x 1Gb sticks)
CM Real power pro 650W
CM 690 case
samsung 20x dvdrw
WD caviar 16se 500gb HDD
Do you have a cheap video card laying around? If you do put it in the computer and try booting up from there.
Once something starts going wrong it always seems to knock out the high end video card drivers. I have had to revert back to a cheapie just to get the computer up to find the other problems.
Could also be ram, it often does the same thing, just keeps rebooting.
unfortunately I do not have another pcie express video card... but I dont see why drivers wouldn't allow me to at least get to the bios. I read that a lot of gigabyte p35 motherboards had this infinite reboot problem... is there any fix to it besides RMA?
