GA-X58A-UD3R bIOS fC1 (REV 2.0)
i7-950 at stock speed
6GB ram Kingston hyperX performance (KHX2000C9AD3T1K3/6GX)
GV-N480D5-151-B GTX480 1536 mb
PATRIOT SSD Torqx 128GB (Main) Latest firmware
seagate 120gb x2 (storage)
Samsung Bluray player
Power supply, Silent Pro M1000 (RS-A00-AMBA-J3) 80Amp 12v rail
Windows 7 Pro 64bit
All Drivers and updates are up to date.
I have been having problem with my computer when I power it on. It keeps on getting
stuck at the bios page and it sometimes detects some of my computer components. ie.
HDD, CD drives and total ram. This problem only happens when I use the gtx480 card, I
do have a spare ati 4870x2 2GB asus graphics card and it works fine. I thought it
might have been my new gtx480 card was playing up. I went to gigabyte in Clayton,
Austraila and they check over my computer system and gave me a new card. They were
great help and understanding of my situation. So I got home and and my computer ran
fine for about 4 hours. Played games, did a benchmark using futuremark and also used
windows computer performance and 7.6 out of 7.9 rating for graphics and gaming grahics.
Then all of a sudden the computer locked up and was forced to reset the computer and
was getting stuck on the startup bios page. grrrrr I spent the next 2 days trying
everything to get it to work. By trying out all the bios versions for the motherboard.
(fa, fb, and now fc1) Still no help. I did mangage to flash bios from a lucky startup
using the bios means of flashing and not thru the operating system. But when I pulled
out the gtx480 card and but in my ati 4870x2 the computer would run fine. For some
reason the motherboard and gtx480 card didnt like each other when card was slotted into
the pciex16_1. After a couple of days I thought to myself, why not put the gtx480 card
in the pciex16_2 slot and to my suprise the computer runs fine now, and it has been a
week running great.
Any ideas to why this problem has been an issue?
Another thing also, when I did the windows computer performance test again. It now
shows that graphics and gaming graphics both at the highest lvl 7.9 rating.
My futuremark stats
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=2588905 http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcmv=372017