About a week and a half/two weeks ago I bought an Intel i5 3570k + Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H combo at Microcenter. I also purchased some Microcenter 1.5v 1333MHz RAM to go along with it. I swapped over all my other components from my previous build into this one. All of my specs are listed down below.
Shortly after putting together this build, I noticed my BIOS did not function properly and I made this thread in the Intel Motherboards forum. I e-mailed Gigabyte support, and after a few back-and-forth, they said to either RMA it or return it to Microcenter and exchange it. So today I drove to Microcenter and swapped out my old board for a brand new one (same model). Got home, popped it in, and the same EXACT issue was happening. I seriously could not believe it. To bring you up to date, my BIOS does not work AT ALL when my GPU is plugged in, and if I take out my GPU and use integrated graphics (via DVI) I get this:
After some thinking, I thought it may be the processor, so I drove BACK to Microcenter, and swapped out my processor for a brand new one. So now I have two brand new components that I just got today. I popped the processor in, and low-and-behold, I still get the same issue. I have tried everything. Even one-stick of RAM in each slot, and tried 6 different RAM sticks (4 Microcenter sticks, and 2 sticks of Patriot Viper Xtreme, all one-at-a-time, of course) - nothing works.
What the heck is going on here? I honestly have NO idea what is happening. Could it be my motherboard and I just happened to get two bad apples in a row (which came from different shipments 2 weeks apart, btw). I would like to start overclocking my CPU please!
Shortly after putting together this build, I noticed my BIOS did not function properly and I made this thread in the Intel Motherboards forum. I e-mailed Gigabyte support, and after a few back-and-forth, they said to either RMA it or return it to Microcenter and exchange it. So today I drove to Microcenter and swapped out my old board for a brand new one (same model). Got home, popped it in, and the same EXACT issue was happening. I seriously could not believe it. To bring you up to date, my BIOS does not work AT ALL when my GPU is plugged in, and if I take out my GPU and use integrated graphics (via DVI) I get this:
After some thinking, I thought it may be the processor, so I drove BACK to Microcenter, and swapped out my processor for a brand new one. So now I have two brand new components that I just got today. I popped the processor in, and low-and-behold, I still get the same issue. I have tried everything. Even one-stick of RAM in each slot, and tried 6 different RAM sticks (4 Microcenter sticks, and 2 sticks of Patriot Viper Xtreme, all one-at-a-time, of course) - nothing works.
What the heck is going on here? I honestly have NO idea what is happening. Could it be my motherboard and I just happened to get two bad apples in a row (which came from different shipments 2 weeks apart, btw). I would like to start overclocking my CPU please!
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