990FXA - UD3 Rev 4

[jorgecorazondeleon]

No one has answered of the gigabyte technical support?

The advice was to go back to the F2 bios. I'm a bit surprised that the F3i bios is still shown on the download page - in my experience it was completely unacceptable. My problem might have been a windows 8.1 thing, but that would still be bad enough.

If anyone else has run into similar problems, make sure you report them to Gigabyte.

There was an F3h bios that didn't seem to get wide distribution. Does anyone know if it had issues?

Gigabyte Argentina, told me the same as you.
But in truth, I preferred to communicate with the central gigabyte.
This is impossible.
(Little and poor attention in gigabyte Argentina and gigabyte Spain).
Regarding the bios F3h, they told me it removed for being unstable.
If you know German, here are more details

http://mbforum.gigabyte.de/index.php?page=User&userID=8692

[AgentFXA]

There is no change on the Australian site F3i is the latest for v4 and that's it - gigabyte quality has gone down the drain. I reboot the system after sleep and that's the "fix".

I've seen the same problem with the v3 board - people should be careful. using here this cpu gadget which has temperature alarm.

[jorgecorazondeleon]

If someone wants to try the bios F3h
I have it.

[AgentFXA]

If someone wants to try the bios F3h
I have it.

Thanks for the bios - works for me and fixes the fan problem!

[AgentFXA]

Okay, just found out what's wrong with F3h - while in a longer FC3 session temperature alarm comes on.. hmm, exited the game to find in ET6 that the CPU is stuck in turbo mode apparently no CnQ any more. (We have summer here and the room is 30+ celsius)

Have to reboot to be back to normal - from 1 extreme to the next!

 

[jorgecorazondeleon]

Does the problem occur after leaving the sleep mode?

[AgentFXA]

Does the problem occur after leaving the sleep mode?

yes, but I dint test enough to confirm it's the trigger, dunno!  - I am back to F2!

[jorgecorazondeleon]

New BIOS F3   !!!

[AgentFXA]

New BIOS F3   !!!

WARNING - with this clever bios the CPU fan no longer spins after sys wakeup from sleep - in other words 0 RPM until reboot! Anyone confirm this?

 

[jorgecorazondeleon]

I use water cooling, I can not confirm this.
But, it has the same problem as the bios F3i
Ver fig

Or is AIDA64 problem?
I have written to technical support (Taiwan)

[rinkol]

New BIOS F3   !!!

WARNING - with this clever bios the CPU fan no longer spins after sys wakeup from sleep - in other words 0 RPM until reboot! Anyone confirm this?

Unbelievably, the problem with overheating after waking that was reported by myself and others has not been fixed.

I also noticed that I could not change any voltage or timing settings from auto, though I was able to select the XMP memory profile. Mysteriously, when I reflashed to F2, my previous timing and voltage settings reappeared. I'm wondering whether there is a glitch where previous settings interfere with the new bios.

[jorgecorazondeleon]

The support of Taiwan have responded to me as follows:
Dear jorge dan,

Because most of the 3rd party software does not know our hardware design and somehow it is impossible to optimize all with our products; therefore, we are sorry to say that we cannot guarantee whether the 3rd party software can report information correctly. Sometimes it may display miscalculated/unsupported readings.

By using GIGABYTE motherboards, if you need a tool for hardware monitor, we recommend you to use Easy Tune6 utility which you can get from driver CD or download from our web site. To download the latest GIGABYTE utility, please click HERE.

Regards,
GIGABYTE

But....:I replied:
Also fails with EasyTune6
(Differently, but fails)

[AgentFXA]

The support of Taiwan have responded to me as follows:
Dear jorge dan,

Because most of the 3rd party software does not know our hardware design and somehow it is impossible to optimize all with our products; therefore, we are sorry to say that we cannot guarantee whether the 3rd party software can report information correctly. .....

Well, I had a look through my clear case side window and the fan indeed stopped when ET6 was reporting 0 RPM hence it is perfectly correct. Btw, I dint know ET6 is 3rd party software.

Obviously, my next mobo won't be Gigabyte any more - apparently they no longer know what they're doing and even release it (bios) untested to the public. Great Job!



 

[jorgecorazondeleon]

Please friends:
Write to Support "Taiwan" gigabyte.
I managed to call their attention to the problem of bios F3.
But we must emphasize the subject with people who have the same problem

[jorgecorazondeleon]

Last answer:
Dear jorge dan,
Thanks for your photos. The arrows on the fan speed and temperature can be adjusted depend on your need. From the photos of Easy Tune 6, it seems like the CPU fan does not spin or it is not be detected. Kindly confirm CPU fan is work properly and connect to the correct CPU_FAN pin header. If possible, please try other CPU fan and see how it works. Meanwhile, kindly provide us the version of Easy Tune 6 utility. Thanks.

Regards,
GIGABYTE

Question:   Easy tune version is contained in the last page of Gigabyte B15.0210.1.
I use two cooler "water cooling"
With F2 the problem does not occur.
Occur with F3i and F3
The problem is not only mine, look at the UK Forum:
AgentFXA:
Re: 990FXA - UD3 Rev 4
« Reply #23 on: May 29, 2015, 06:46:16 am »
Quote from: jorgecorazondeleon on May 29, 2015, 01:45:07 am
New BIOS F3 !!!

WARNING - with this clever bios the CPU fan no longer spins after sys wakeup from sleep - in other words 0 RPM until reboot! Anyone confirm this?
http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/board,6.0.html