Gigabyte GA-8I845GV: Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: Gigabyte GA-8I845GV

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Troubleshooting

If you encounter any trouble during boot up, please follow the troubleshooting

procedures.

START

Turn off the power and unplug the AC power cable, then remove

all of the add-on cards and cables from motherboard.

Yes

Please isolate

Please make sure motherboard & chassis are not short ?

the short pin.

No

Failure has been excluded.

Make sure the

No

Please make sure all jumper settings (such as CPU system

jumper setting

bus speed, frequency ratio, voltage and etc) are set properly.

are correct.

Ye s

Failure has been excluded.

Plug the CPU

cooling fan power

No

in the CPU fan

Check if the CPU cooling fan attached to CPU properly. ls

connector. Plug

CPU cooling fan power connected to CPU_FAN

in the AC power

properly?

connector.

Yes

Failure has been excluded.

Insert and push

No

the memory

Check if the memory install properly into the DIMM slot.

module vertically

into the DIMM

slot.

Yes

Failure has been excluded.

Insert the VGA card. Then plug in ATX power cable and

turn on the system.

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The problem could

be caused by

power supply,

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CPU, memory or

No

CPU/memory

Is memory LED on and CPU fan running?

socket itself.

Yes

Failure has been excluded.

Perhaps your VGA

No

card / VGA slot or

Check if there is display.

monitor is defective.

Yes

Failure has been excluded.

Turn off the system. Reboot after keyboard and mouse

have been plugged in.

It is possible that

your keyboard or

No

keyboard connector

Check if keyboard is working properly.

is defective.

Yes

Press <Del> to enter BIOS setup. Choose "Load

Optimized Defaults" and save then exit setup.

Failure has been excluded.

The problem was

No

Turn off the system and re-connect the IDE cable.

probably caused by

Check if the system can reboot successfully.

the IDE device /

connector or cable.

Ye s

Reinstall Windows OS, and reinstall add-on cards and

cables. Then try to reboot the system.

Failure has been excluded.

END

If the above procedure unable to solve your problem, please contact with your local retailer or national

distributor for help. Or, you could submit your question to the service mail via Gigabyte website technical

support zone (http://www.gigabyte.com.tw). The appropriate response will be provided ASAP.

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