New PC with blue screens problems MB: GA-X58A-UD5 (rev. 1.0) with core i7 930

[JekylHyde]

Hi
i just bought a new PC.
i'm trying for 2 days now to install windows but it's not stable.
first i installed win7 64bit. it was slow. & when i installed the ATI driver after reboot the system was all blue screens. over & over again.
so i installed vista. vista32 for starters (my cpu is 64).
it was more stable. but still bluescreens here & there.
so i went to the bios & disabled the new intel turbo option & it was stable. i now could install games & play!
so after an hour i quited to windows & ran the computer rating app that vista has to see how powerfull my system is. but after that ... i got reset.
& every time i went to windows after 20-30 sec the system auto rest itself...

i'm trying now to install XP 32bit.
just to see if it will be stable.
but i really don't know what to do.
is my bios settings are wrong?

the final thing is of course to be able to install win7 64bit.

my sys:
MB: GA-X58A-UD5 (rev. 1.0)
core i7 930 2.8Mhz 8mb cache
12Gb DDR3 1333MHZ PVT36G1333LLK
asus radeon hd 5750 1GB
hdd WD1002FAEX 1TB

(i ran memtest & it was OK).

links:

http://www.patriotmemory.com/products/detailp.jsp?prodline=5&catid=23&prodgroupid=111&id=759&type=1

http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/download-center.aspx?kw=GA-X58A-UD5

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=5387&p_created=&p_cats=185&p_cv=1.185&p_pv=2.279&p_prods=227%2C279

help!!! 

[Peteruk]

What PSU do you have (make/mode)? And are you using the 8pin?

HDD in the bule SATA ports?

Also even with a new HDD the drive could be faulty. 

[JekylHyde]

What PSU do you have (make/mode)? And are you using the 8pin?

HDD in the bule SATA ports?

Also even with a new HDD the drive could be faulty.  

what Power Supply Unit?
chieftec nitro 750w modular psu 14cm fan, active pfc bps-750c

& yes...the blue.

[Peteruk]

Unsure how good or well made that PSU is for your setup it seems to have good points about....

Run the Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (CD) to see if the HDD is faulty.
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=613&sid=30&lang=en

[F5BJR]

*
friend has a problem with this harddisk in sata3 port

for moment the solution is to plug in a sata2 port

Pierre

[onemilimeter]

Yes.. check the HDD and see it's faulty or not.

You may try 2GB or 4GB memory first...

[Peteruk]

Noticed you got rev. 1.0 F3 & F5 have some Enhanced memory compatibility done for is so try updating the BIOS to F5.  

[JekylHyde]

Noticed you got rev. 1.0 F3 & F5 have some Enhanced memory compatibility done for is so try updating the BIOS to F5.  

people warned me from bios updating. they said it might leave me with a bad MB...
& that i might throw it to the garbage.



btw what is gsata?

[absic]

Hi,
If you flash BIOS with the QFlash Utility it is normally pretty easy and there is less chance of things going wrong.

DO NOT use the@BIOS Windows software as this can cause more problems then it solves.

gsata is the term used for the Gigabyte SATA ports

[Dark Mantis]

Try running with only half your memory to start with you can add the rest aftewr you get a stable system and as absic said update your BIOS from the Q-Flash utility not Windows based @BIOS.

[JekylHyde]

Try running with only half your memory to start with you can add the rest aftewr you get a stable system and as absic said update your BIOS from the Q-Flash utility not Windows based @BIOS.

i don't know if it solved it but i took it out of  the gsata into a notmal sata & so far (so far) looks fine.
as  i understand i have the hdd now on 3Gb/s speed & not 6... so i'm losing half speed.

[Peteruk]

i don't know if it solved it but i took it out of  the gsata into a notmal sata & so far (so far) looks fine.

gsata are white ports the others sata ports are blue yes?

[Dark Mantis]

The GSATA ports are not 6GBs anyway but if you are talking about the SATA3 Marvell based ports they have never lived up to the hype and are only about the same as the SATA2 for performance.

[JekylHyde]

i don't know if it solved it but i took it out of  the gsata into a notmal sata & so far (so far) looks fine.

gsata are white ports the others sata ports are blue yes?

the blue is sata2 as i saw on the MB
white is gsata3
(why they call them gsata3 & not sata3?)
anyway i think that they are the one that problematic.


thank you Pierre for the tip

[Dark Mantis]

From the top, the blue ports are SATA2(six) then comes the white GSATA3 ports(two) and finally the white GSATA2 ports(two)