Quote Originally Posted by clo007 View Post
I am about to give up on this board. This is my second one (UD3R). The first one came DOA. This second one ran fine till yesterday. I tried to boot up and nothing happened ie. monitors read no signal. I clear battery for 12hrs, as I was at work and such. Put things back together this morning and still nothing. One point yesterday with the issues started, it would not boot. I entered into bios and set to fail-safe settings. Saved and exited. It booted up, went into window, then 30 secs later the computer locked up. Tried to clear cmos/battery again and nothing. Back to today. So I powered on and computer set there cycling. It never went to the bios screen. I thought maybe I was having hdd failure b/c i can't hear them spooling up at all, but I can't even get to the bios without the hdd's installed.

Is my second board failing or what?

Specs of set-up in sig. Thanks guys.
Not a definate answer, but are you *absolutely* sure that your OC is 112% stable?

I ask because I'm in the process of OC'ing my own Q9650 - although on a DQ6 mobo, and as you probably know, small changes can make or break the stability.

If your board is cycling at boottime, it's usually an unstable setting.

Could also be heat related - do you have proper cooling/airflow?

Another thing you could try is to remove the mobo from your cabinet and lay it all out on a cardboard box or similar and fire it up.

I had great difficulty getting my rig stable when inside my cabinet after exchanging my CPU-cooler and the reason was most likely some sort of short between the mobo and cabinet. The solution was to remove the setup from the cabinet - no problems with stability.

Have actually sold the cabinet now as it was too small anyway and now it's running, dressed in its birthday suit

Hope you find the answer!