Uh, that’s going to happen when there isn’t any ram in there. Put the ram in the computer and put in the GPU. You can get in to a boot loop without ram inserted.
Understood, however at this phase I was trying to update the motherboard to the latest BIOS using QFlash. Gigabyte recommends only having the 8 pin power and 24pin MB connector plugged in. The fact that the computer was turning on without the power switch hooked up to the F-Panel is baffling.
You’re probably going to need a stick of ram in there to do any testing. You also need to make sure the bios update you’re trying to do isn’t too high. It’s possible that your cpu isn’t supported by that version of the bios update which leads to a black screen no signal at start up.
According to Gigabyte the latest BIOS (F4) was appropriate for this CPU and graphics card. Thanks for the suggestion though, when it comes to troubleshooting there's no such thing as too much information.
Flash drives were 512MB and 4GB respectively. I didn't try it without the processor and have read that that could help. Gigabyte's tech support confirms that having nothing installed is ideal, however having a CPU installed should work regardless.
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Hook it up to a monitor most likely it's trying to memory train but since there is no ram it will loop.
Exactly, idk how testing the pc without a ram inserted is going to work?
Uh, that’s going to happen when there isn’t any ram in there. Put the ram in the computer and put in the GPU. You can get in to a boot loop without ram inserted.
Understood, however at this phase I was trying to update the motherboard to the latest BIOS using QFlash. Gigabyte recommends only having the 8 pin power and 24pin MB connector plugged in. The fact that the computer was turning on without the power switch hooked up to the F-Panel is baffling.
You’re probably going to need a stick of ram in there to do any testing.
You also need to make sure the bios update you’re trying to do isn’t too high. It’s possible that your cpu isn’t supported by that version of the bios update which leads to a black screen no signal at start up.
According to Gigabyte the latest BIOS (F4) was appropriate for this CPU and graphics card. Thanks for the suggestion though, when it comes to troubleshooting there's no such thing as too much information.
Bios flash drive should be 32 gig max or you need to partition the drive if not working change the drive have you tried without the processor
Flash drives were 512MB and 4GB respectively. I didn't try it without the processor and have read that that could help. Gigabyte's tech support confirms that having nothing installed is ideal, however having a CPU installed should work regardless.
Yeap try putting ram in and Luke the other guy said about flash drive I use a 8 gig for things like this
youre gonna need atleast 1 stick of ram in there brother