Problem: Computer restarts when booting.

(Problem demonstrated at 13:05)

Specs:
PSU: Corsair 850AX, CPU: Intel core i7 2600K, RAM: 2x4 GB 1600 MHz Corsair Vengeance, HDD: Hitachi 7K3000 (Sata 6Gb/s, 7200 rpm), SSD: Intel 510 SSD (Sata 6Gb/s), VIDEO CARD: Gigabyte 560Ti, MOTHERBOARD: GA-Z68X-UD4-B3, COOLER: Cooler Master V8, CASE: Silverstone "Raven" RV02, OPTICAL DRIVE: Samsung SH-b123l I mention most of them in the video

Hey,

This is my first build and I've connected everything and get to the BIOS screen. Then it shuts off. Then it goes on again, and shuts off at the same place. And so on.

I've double-checked all cables and the RAMs sit tight, the graphics card is a little loose but the peg snapped so it should be all right, and everything seems fine. To me at least.

All standoffs are in and the motherboard is screwed onto them, and I have checked all connections once again. Another thing I forgot to mention is that the graphics card is connected to the current through an ATX-Express cable directly to the power supply, which has 16 pins (I think) at the end to the power supply and 16 in the other. However, they are divided into 6 +2 and 6+2, so I joined 6 and 6 to the graphics card, so that the two 2-pin connectors are left hanging, which I hope is correct?

The Molex-cables are arranged in a way so that I have a Molex-chain with all three case-fans into one contact (using a hub that came with the case) and a contact to front-LED. Another similar Molex-chaining without a single connection except for the SSD, and two long SATA-chains solely dedicated to one device each (Blu-ray player and HDD).

THANKS!

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[orginunknown]

I had a similar problem with a gigabyte g1 guerrilla and hopefully solved it by going into the bios and selecting load optimum defaults. this resets all the bios settings to the manufactures specifications and removes any overclocking. Led warning lights on the mobo were saying voltage was a little high but not in the red zone. all those warning lights are off now.

[SwedishBerzerker]

@orginunknown It's nothing like that actually. Believe me, I've tried all of those easier solutions like resetting the BIOS etc. It's not overclocked or anything. I ran a RAM test a while ago and it seems it's something to do with the RAM, but I haven't really bothered to fix it yet. The computer works fine any way, or at least judging by what meets the eye. This is my first computer and I put it together myself, plus I'm Swedish, so I'll likely not be buying from them ;)

[muffemod]

Hi which BIOS version are you using?

[SwedishBerzerker]

@muffemod F8, the latest. The computer works fine now, but the weird beep code remains.

[muffemod]

@SwedishBerzerker You should google "gigabyte boot loop" apparently it's a common issue with many of their boards.

[SwedishBerzerker]

@muffemod Thanks, I'll check it out! But I believe it's the RAM because when I did memtest86, one ofthe memories caused a huge amount of jibberish on the screen after a few cycles.

[orginunknown]

btw I ordered the computer from cyberpower pc and didn't request any overclocking and didn't do it my self. If you're considering buying from them, DON'T. their quality control sucks soooo bad. they had the cd drive set as the primary boot drive and over clocked it when i didn't request it. So stupid.

[SwedishBerzerker]

@coleeo23 It won't be long, I'm going to install OS today if everything's fine :P

[coleeo23]

@SwedishBerzerker Glad to know you got it working. Cant wiat for the new videos especially liar!

[SwedishBerzerker]

@JCH760310 Turned out the CPU overheated because of too much thermal compound :)