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Nov 19 2017 11:55pm
Quote (lLethaL @ Nov 18 2017 10:00am)
Buy a bios chip already updated. Still have to wait for it to come in.
Faster than rma.


The only one I found is $25 CAD which is like over a quarter of what I paid for this piece of shit mobo lol. Plus I don't know how to do any of the repair work, nor do I think I want to try.



This is like the dumbest thing. I think I know what the problem is and there's a very real possibility that it's something else entirely and it's like impossible for me to know. And even if I am right, it could take multiple months to get it fixed.

for fuck sakes lol
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Nov 21 2017 09:09pm
Well I called Gigabyte and their customer service guy said it's not possible for the Motherboard not to boot, and that the default BIOS on my board should be compatible with my CPU. So if he's right, that means the problem that I thought existed, doesn't exist.

That means either the mobo or some other competent is dead. Tomorrow I'm going to buy a motherboard just to test out all my other part and then return it the next day lol. In the meantime, I've started the RMA process with Gigabyte.


What a headache. What started out as a fun project has just turned into a giant annoying waste of time. All the time spent finding sales, doing the rebates, driving across the border to pick up the packages lol. If I knew back in August what I know now, I would have just bought a prebuilt or something. Not at all worth the savings.

I almost feeling like biting the bullet and just buying a new motherboard and throwing this one in the trash instead of waiting a month for Gigabyte to send me back a (hopefully) working board.

Funny thing is, my friend built his own PC too, using almost all the same components I did (some of them were bought together, as well). His PC works perfectly fine lol. I hate him :)

This post was edited by LuLer on Nov 21 2017 09:13pm
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Nov 21 2017 09:56pm
^ try ur friend's memory stick imo
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Nov 22 2017 02:21am
Well, I figured it out, it works (well it at least posted, I'll figure out if everything works tomorrow after work).

I almost don't want to say what the problem was, how embarrassing. As you can probably tell by my last post, I was nearing meltdown mode and it was such an obvious issue...

Jesus fuck. Thanks to everyone who tried to help diagnose the problem. Appreciate it.

This post was edited by LuLer on Nov 22 2017 02:24am
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Nov 22 2017 02:22am
Over 100 posts still not a working PC. This forum really does help its users :lol:

@LuLer, I recommend posting on linus tech tips or something lol

This post was edited by JohnMiller92 on Nov 22 2017 02:22am
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Nov 22 2017 02:51am
Just read through everything, glad you figured it out! :) I'm dumb when it comes to computers lol
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