codes and such for bootup problems

I have owned a digital storm computer for almost 2 yrs now and I seem to break it pretty often.  At this point I am having some technical difficulties that i could really use some input and help with.  At first every time i went to boot up my computer it would automatically shut off within a couple of seconds.  Well i must be doing something right because i have fixed that issue.  Now next issue I am not getting a boot up screen on the monitor at all my monitor just seems to fall asleep waiting for the PC to boot up.  That being said i have noticed that there is an error code of F6 and I am not quite sure what that means.  I would sure appreciate some help in this matter from anyone who would know the computer i purchased still has 2+ yrs of warranty left on and would like to get it fixed so that i can start using it again instead of having to use my wife's boring slow DELL.  Please help me thanks!!!

Kelly Masters

you have warranty, why not contact DS and let them take care of it?

I will try and get all of my specs from DS later on this afternoon so that i can post everything in it...  But i do believe that i gave maybe enouph information to start but let me know if u need more and i will try and find it all...

Yeah I think your going to have to go through the gammot and troubleshoot the hard way.  I'd begin by powering down then clearing cmos boot back up and see what that does. Then if that is still doing nothing then I'd try one ram stick at a time. Also, I'd copy your bios settings on a piece of paper before clearing cmos if you are overclocked.  Or just take pictures of the screen.

Edited by AndydViking - 22 Mar 2010 at 3:59pm

I have tried further and came to a possible conclusion of a bad mother board perhaps and I am not completely sure of this but this is how i have come to the conclusion, I would really appreciate everyone who can to input.  When i have both ram sticks or just one ram have tried both in both directions or slots i should say.  When i put the ram sticks in slot 1 or 3 or both I get the F6 code like its not even noticing that the ram is there at all.  Or saying that the ram is bad.  Now when i have put the ram in the 2nd and 4th slot or either or tried both ram seperately and together as well just for testing purposes, then i powered up the computer and it runs through a series of codes C1 C3 25 FF and immediately powers itself off.  I am not getting anything on the monitor at all still one thing I am going to try is to trouble shoot this problem on the mother board website to see if I can find a possible solution and would highly appreciate some input and help as you all have been so helpfull thus far.  Another question I have is that since i still have a warranty and all that i wonder if D.S. would allow me to take the computer to a shop around the Portland area for service that way i don't have to pay an enormous amount of shipping cost's and if there waranty would cover that.  I miss my computer so much and would like to have it back in working order....

OK sounds good i will do just that they are supposed to get a hold of me tomorrow so hopefully that will be a good thing thank you very much for your help AndydViking i really appreciate it.