Well, it seams that this mobo was release last autumn and on march it ended the support for it, no more BIOS updates since then.
I've bought this mobo to make a system from zero. My system runs Win 10 x64.
After I made my system, I soon discovered that I this mobo had a big problem. No matter what I did, I was not able to get hibernation to function. It hibernate but then after the resume, boom, start from zero...
Looking at the system event viewer, I always get this error:
Windows failed to resume from hibernate with error status 0xC000009A.
Of course, after I google this, no solution would come. I was on F3 bios and all drivers were updated. Even with the new F4 betas no solution. The same with final F4.
With "POWERCFG /a" I get:
The following sleep states are available on this system:
Standby (S3)
Hibernate
Fast Startup
The following sleep states are not available on this system:
Standby (S1)
The system firmware does not support this standby sta
Standby (S2)
The system firmware does not support this standby sta
Standby (S0 Low Power Idle)
The system firmware does not support this standby sta
Hybrid Sleep
The hypervisor does not support this standby state.
I also tried force hibernate to use my whole RAM with "POWERCFG /h /type full" and "POWERCFG /h /size 100" but no go. I analized with "POWERCFG /energy"
The SATA problem is minor but still gives me headaches. Going to cut some shortcuts.
I have a WD 2GB Blue, 1 DVD-RW drive and one usb/sdcard reader. All of them are connected via SATA. This problem got almost immediately after I build my rig. This happens with all the irst intel sata drivers that I tried so far. Right now, I'm with their last, 15.0.2.1044.
My problem is simple. After the first or second boot, it takes very long time to boot inside Windows and when I enter windows, I can enter cause my boot drive is the 950 Pro NVMe, all my other drives that are on sata simply don't get to boot and there for don't display on the explorer!!! The solution to end this was to replace the intel driver for the basic microsoft sata driver. With that driver I have no problems at all!!! 4 secs to boot in no time!! Every drive appears fine.
With the intel driver, I tried to change cables, disconnect devices and whatever... I discovered that with the card reader disconnected, I also get the same problem but not every time. This time only need to get inside the device manager and disable and enable the intel sata device driver. After enabling I get back my WD and DVD-RW drive.
Right now I'm with the intel driver and with the sdcard drive disconnected from sata.
It would be could if Gigabyte would give more support to this mobo and H170 series.
Probably this was my first and last Gigabyte mobo. Full of bugs and zero support only after a few months after the release of the mobo. Shame on you Giga...