z77x-ud5h: Windows 10 problems

[Kiran]

I'm on my third attempt to use Windows 10. The first two times I upgraded from 7 to 10 which was a fiasco. This time, I wiped my drive and installed 10 from scratch.  It's been mostly bearable but I'm having these issues:

1. The PC won't sleep. Checking powercfg, it shows the Realtek sound card as keeping the PC from sleeping. I installed the drivers from Gigabyte, and at first, it seemed to fix the problem, but it's back to the same issue.

2. 9 times out of 10, when I wake the PC from a 'forced' sleep, and try to run something like Firestorm or a game, the screens suddenly turn off and the fans go to 100%.. and then the PC reboots.  Nothing is logged in the event log, usually, though once I got the "driver "nvlddmkm" stopped responding" logged.  I've been going backwards in nVidia drivers for my GTX 980 to see if that fixes it.  The latest driver 364.72 seemed the worst.

3. Several times now, when I've shut the PC down (not put it to sleep) and then turn it on later, it will begin to boot, I'll see the little blue windows 10 logo for about a second, and then the PC just shuts back off.  I have to turn it on again and then it boots correctly.  Before when I did the upgrade from 7 to 10, when I tried to shut the PC down, it would just randomly reboot instead of shut down, and of course not go to sleep, so I would come back hours later to find my PC on, when I thought I had shut it down.

I updated the BIOS to F16k (I think) hoping that might help; it didn't appear to change anything.

I had -zero- problems running Windows 7.  I know the simplest answer is to go back to Windows 7, but I want to use 10.  I'm just wondering, is this board just too old/incompatible?  I'm just at a loss on what to do next.

[dmdilks]

How are you setting up the bios? You using UEFI? Did you Change it from other OS to Windows 8. I Sold a Computer with a Gigabyte P55 board running windows 10 with no problems.

Put the windows 10 disk in the drive boot it. Go into the bios and have it boot to the UEFI DVD set the other SO to windows 8 and see what happens. Once you get it running disable the CSM.

[Kiran]

You bring up an interesting point; when I installed 10 I didn't even think of UEFI.. so no, it's installed in legacy mode.  I guess I have to start over to change to UEFI.

I'll give it a go and see what happens. Can't hurt!

Thanks,

Kiran

[Kiran]

Well I cheated and found instructions to convert legacy to UEFI. Took a couple minutes and now I'm in UEFI mode.

I'll see if this has any effect on my problems.

Kiran

[Kiran]

PC still won't go to sleep. 

[shadowsports]

Like the Z68 I mentioned in another post, I have a board with the Z77 chipset running windows 10 as well.  Also an Asus board (similar, not identical running with a EVGA 560Ti FTW).  No problems sleeping, waking, or with boot.

Your issues seem to be related to more than BIOS rev and driver version coexistence.  A clean install using UEFI might be best, but there is no guarantee this in conjunction with your current hardware/environment will resolve the problems with certainty. Sorry.   

Would you mind, posting your complete system specs, including mouse and keyboard if wireless. 

Also, what kind of cooling are you running, and are you using any splitters on the Fan headers?

Last, do you have AppCenter installed, SIV, are you overclocking, memory or CPU, etc?

[Kiran]

System specs are:

i7-3770
16G DDR3 (2x8G)
SSD for C:
2 x 2TB WD drives
nVidia GTX 980

No wireless devices.  Stock Intel heatsink and fan, and no splitters on fan headers.  Not using AppCenter or doing any overclocking.

I'll give a reinstall of 10 a try and post back.

Thanks,

Kiran

[Kiran]

Well, silly me.  I finally realized what was keeping the PC from sleeping.  I use Mouse Without Borders because I have my laptop on my desk and it lets me use the same mouse and keyboard (software KVM), and it has an option to 'block screen saver on other PCs', which was enabled on my laptop, and was thus keeping my PC from sleeping.  Interestingly enough, it doesn't disable the monitor sleep mode, they power down when they should.

So for now that issue is resolved.  I feel better knowing others have run 10 on this board without a problem. If the other problems persist, I'll deal with them when the time comes.

Thanks for your help.

Kiran

[shadowsports]

Kiran,
Great news.  Sometimes looking at the entire environment puts things into perspective...  even if its in a round about way