Official GIGABYTE X38-DQ6/X38T-DQ6 Info/BIOS Thread

[HeadShotWI]

I am at my WITS END! PLEASE HELP! About a month ago I updated my bios to the most recent available on Gigabyte. It was fine for 1 reboot and then refused to post any longer. I sent it to Gigabyte and they sent my motherboard back to me immediately and said it posted just fine.

I was furious. I did my due diligence testing the motherboard pulling it out of case and firing it up on a bench. I escalated and was told I would be getting a brand new motherboard sent me to after sending it back.

I recieved the supposed new motherboard yesterday. It was in the wrong motherboard box and in a taped anti static bag. I shrugged this off and fired it up on my workbench and BAMN! I see the gigabyte screen. Success!

I put it in my case, am very careful and get things set to fire back up and then the problems start. Sometimes when I power it on it will post, sometimes it won't, I tried instaling vista and it had some kind of weird error just loading in to the installation screen about winload.exe not being able to be loaded. Then I get some crazy weird trap exception error messages in the bios screen. It was just white text on black background during the bios post. It completely froze and I rebooted again and now the damn thing just sits here turning on off on off every second. Everything just spins up and starts and it just powers off again and cycles.

I've tried using just one stick of memory and reconnecting everything carefully but it appears this motherboard is ed.

Am I crazy or are these ass holes coninually sending me defective junk. It's been over a month that I have been down and I am being SERIOUS impacted by this and these guys are complete morons on the phone. I don't know what recourse I have. I paid 270 bucks for this ninemonths ago.

I feel totally screwed and I really don't have buckets of money to start buying new processors and powersupplies to try and rule thoseout. They are already high quality thermaltake modular 700watt psu and e8400 cpu six months old.

Any suggestions?

Disclaimer: I have been overclocking for years and fully understand bios settings, memory straps, etc and have this sucker set up to basically failsafe settings.