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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: DocKate on April 17, 2013, 12:00:09 am
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I had just gotten a replacement motherboard last week, it didn't boot at all, I had it shipped back to Amazon for a replacement board, and funnily enough I have the exact same problem. Tried both RAM channels, RAM from another desktop, graphics card either of 6790 or 7770, PCI-E slot for graphics card, I've used an Athlon II 240 and Phenom II 925, so I can verify the issue exists only with the motherboard. The question is, what is the problem with Gigabyte that I have received two motherboards with the exact same problem?
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What is the power supply used ?!
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Bgears 650W / Antec 650W. Both of them have been load checked, so I know they aren't a cause.
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Hi there, I had a similar problem when using a HDMI cable through my HD7770 (stupped me for a whole day, as I couldn't even access the bios) the fix that worked for me was to use an old VGA cable (DVI to VGA adapter) to access bios. I have a GA-990XA-UD3 (rev. 3.0) and every time I want to change bios settings I have to use a VGA cable (I think its something to do with the bios's native resolution) it would of been nice for Gigabyte to explain this somewhere, as I was thinking there was something wrong with my bios. I hope this helps you.
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Hi there, I had a similar problem when using a HDMI cable through my HD7770 (stupped me for a whole day, as I couldn't even access the bios) the fix that worked for me was to use an old VGA cable (DVI to VGA adapter) to access bios. I have a GA-990XA-UD3 (rev. 3.0) and every time I want to change bios settings I have to use a VGA cable (I think its something to do with the bios's native resolution) it would of been nice for Gigabyte to explain this somewhere, as I was thinking there was something wrong with my bios. I hope this helps you.
There is something wrong with the BIOS if you can't use a digital cable and have to use a stripping converter to receive an image from the board. Glad that you found a workaround, unfortunately I can't say the same worked for me. I used a Dell 17" CRT, eMachines 17" LCD, and a Dell 24" LCD, all with their VGA cabling. GPU in the image is an HIS 6790.
(http://i.imgur.com/QBrZhDC.jpg)
It should also be noted that Gigabyte's northbridge packaging gets fairly hot (close to boiling) which to me suggests bad electrics on top of a bad design which makes it seemingly common for other people. I haven't had a northbridge get that hot since I had an Nvidia motherboard...
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It should also be noted that Gigabyte's northbridge packaging gets fairly hot (close to boiling) which to me suggests bad electrics on top of a bad design which makes it seemingly common for other people. I haven't had a northbridge get that hot since I had an Nvidia motherboard...
The chipset is as hot as it s predecessors from the AMD7xx or AMD 8xx chipset families.
The heat-sink and thermal used could of been better no doubt.
But this should not be a problem for stability.
You can undervolt the chipset from BIOS , you may be able to drop it to around 1,0V with some drop in temperatures.
No,you won t get the temps of the VIA KT333 chipsets ,neither the ones of the new AMD A55/A75/A85 chipsets which are practically cold as ice. :)