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GA-P67A-UD4 - OCZ RevoDrive not working

GA-P67A-UD4 - OCZ RevoDrive not working
« on: January 12, 2011, 10:41:25 pm »
I have just bought the new GA-P67A-UD4 motherboard along with the new Sandy Bridge CPU from Intel. I am also planning to resuse my excicting RevoDrive (Raid 0 Sandforvce SSD PCI-E based HD) however I am having a major issue with the disk/card and my new GA-P67A-UD4 motherboard.

When I have the graphic card in the x16 PCI-E lane and the RevoDrive in the x8 PCI-E lane, I get no video singal what so ever - just a black screen. Furthermore the machine enters a boot-loop mode. If I remove the RevoDrive everything works fine. I am also sure the RevoDrive is ok as it works fine at my old X38 based computer.

I also know that the RevoDrive works fine with the P67 ASUS mobo lineup.

Anyone able to help?

Spec:
CPU: Core i7 2600K
Mobo: GA-67A-UD4
Mem: 16 GB Corsair 1600 MHZ CL8
PSU. Gigabyte Odin GT 800W
Video: Gigabyte GTX 570
BIOS ver on mobo: F7b



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Re: GA-P67A-UD4 - OCZ RevoDrive not working
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2011, 10:49:22 pm »
Hi and wecome to the Gigabyte Forum.

My first thought would be that becuase the PCIE bus is shared by installing the Revodrive in the PCIE x8 slot you are forcing the PCIE x16 slot to perform in x8 mode also. Your GPU probably doesn't appreciate this and that is where your problems stem from.
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Re: GA-67A-UD4 - OCZ RevoDrive not working
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2011, 11:10:51 pm »
Well that is my theory as well.

The RevoDrive needs an x4 PCI-E lane and there is no other options on this mobo.

An idea on possible workarounds?

Doesn't this board has a PLX chip or something similar?
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Re: GA-67A-UD4 - OCZ RevoDrive not working
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2011, 10:40:18 am »
Just wanted to add that the problem is the same regardless of which PCI-E lane I place the RevoDrive and/or video card.

Since this is obvious a motherboard issue, I guess Gigabyte needs to release a BIOS update for it?




Re: GA-67A-UD4 - OCZ RevoDrive not working
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2011, 10:49:51 am »
Just bought a new OCZ RevoDrive 120gb along with a similar setup

Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD5
Processor: Intel Core i7-2600K

Problem: I can't reach POST if I have the card on any PCI-X slot.  Can only POST if I remove the card, which sounds like some kind of compatibility issue

Re: GA-67A-UD4 - OCZ RevoDrive not working
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2011, 10:55:02 am »
I'd also like to know as soon as possible, to decide if I should return the RevoDrive, or the mainboard :)

Re: GA-67A-UD4 - OCZ RevoDrive not working
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2011, 04:43:14 pm »
Got an msg from Gigabyte support earlier today that they had been able to reproduce the issue in their labs. Currently this issue is at the BIOS engineer's desk..e

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Re: GA-67A-UD4 - OCZ RevoDrive not working
« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2011, 01:22:00 pm »
At least that is something. When they know there's a problem they can usually do something about it.
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy

Re: GA-67A-UD4 - OCZ RevoDrive not working
« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2011, 04:48:19 pm »
Got the F7d BIOS from Gigabyte today and it fixed the problem. My Revo is now working :)

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Re: GA-67A-UD4 - OCZ RevoDrive not working
« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2011, 10:26:01 pm »
Great! And quick too which is a bonus! ;)
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy

Re: GA-67A-UD4 - OCZ RevoDrive not working
« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2011, 11:58:44 am »
Hi There,

I started a system build this morning and when moving my revodrive from my old PC to my new one - which is a Intel i5 2500, GTX 470 (evga) and the motehrboard listed above GA-67A-UD4 I get the same issue: namely the system gets stuck in a boot cycle re-booting every 5 seconds or so (and the screen constantly stays black).

I'm currently on the F7b bios and would very much like to try the 'd' bios mentioned above. Does anyone know where I can get this?

Thanks in advance!

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Re: GA-67A-UD4 - OCZ RevoDrive not working
« Reply #11 on: January 15, 2011, 06:56:11 pm »
I think the OP got it from GGTS.

Just go to the website and put in your email address.
GGTS   http://ggts.gigabyte.com.tw/Default.aspx
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy

Re: GA-67A-UD4 - OCZ RevoDrive not working
« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2011, 10:23:22 pm »
Today I received my new computer and withc is exactly like yours and now I have the same problem. Can you please tell me where i can get the bios update or if you could email me the file with dropbox or with other file sherring tool I would very grateful.

Thank you very much.

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Re: GA-P67A-UD4 - OCZ RevoDrive not working
« Reply #13 on: January 21, 2011, 11:17:12 pm »
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Gigabyte ..

or search with google : GA-P67A-UD5 station-drivers

or :

http://www.station-drivers.com/page/gigabyte/ga-p67a-ud5.htm

Pierre

 
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Re: GA-P67A-UD4 - OCZ RevoDrive not working
« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2011, 07:26:17 am »
Of course I am googeling but everywhere I go I don't find the F7 D version, on the official website the latest bios version is F7 B. Olso in your link you will see that that F7D version is missing.
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