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GA-X58A-UD3R power up problems?
« on: August 03, 2010, 08:30:02 pm »
Building a new beast with the following specs:

Ga-X58A-UD3 (Rev 2) - FA bios
Intel i7 980x
12GB Corsair RAM (6x2G CMD12GX3M6A1600C8)
Inno3D GTX 480 1536MB graphics
2GB Raid 5 3-drive array on a Highpoint RR-3510 raid card
Corsair 1000W CMPSU-1000HXUK PSU

If the unit posts everything works fine. No problems.

If I shut the computer down from Windows and leave it for an hour or so with the mains supply to the ATX PSU still on but the PC in soft-off, then when I next attempt to power up, the PC does not initialize the graphics correctly - but is happy enough that it doesn't "halt on all errors but keyboard" and starts to boot windows but with neither of the two displays connected to the system seeing output on the DVI interfaces.

The only way to recover the situation is to turn the mains off and power up from a cold start. This works every time. As does starting with the mains supply off and then powering up the machine. POSTs every time and stable as a rock with the graphics working.
 
I've changed the graphics card over for a GF260 I use without problem in another machine, problem still present. And I've also tried another 1000W PSU from Xilence in the system. Problem of failure to initialize the DVI outputs on the graphics card at POST persists.

This all points to a problem with the GA-X58A-UD3 starting up from soft-off. Anyone else had a similar problem? Is it a bad example of the board, or is it something that is more common with this model?



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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R power up problems?
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2010, 08:32:56 pm »
It's the sort of problem a BIOS update normally fixes. The only one available is a Beta update FB11.
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3449&dl=1#bios
« Last Edit: August 03, 2010, 08:37:46 pm by Dark Mantis »
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waster

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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R power up problems?
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2010, 10:40:35 pm »
It's the sort of problem a BIOS update normally fixes. The only one available is a Beta update FB11.
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3449&dl=1#bios

Just updated to the beta bios... I'll see if it has any effect.

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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R power up problems?
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2010, 11:14:06 pm »
It's the sort of problem a BIOS update normally fixes. The only one available is a Beta update FB11.
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3449&dl=1#bios
Or previous release beta BIOS FB5

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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R power up problems?
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2010, 11:16:53 pm »
The FB11 was the only one listed on Gigabytes website for this board. Maybe it superceded FB5?
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
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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R power up problems?
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2010, 08:56:48 pm »
Early days, but the beast powered up OK from soft-off first thing this morning and again tonight when I arrived home from work... That's the first time I've had two trouble free power up cycles in a row... so unless its coincidence... looks like FB11 beta bios may have made things better...

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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R power up problems?
« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2010, 08:59:59 pm »
Well fingers crossed ;) Gigabyte seem to be getting on top of these BIOS updates recently. They are actually fixing things :o
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-X58A-UD3R power up problems?
« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2010, 10:48:54 pm »
Well fingers crossed ;) Gigabyte seem to be getting on top of these BIOS updates recently. They are actually fixing things :o

In my opinion, Gigabyte should state the "improvement" made in newly released BIOS. This will help customer to debug the problem.
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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R power up problems?
« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2010, 10:52:44 pm »
This has been asked for many times but I feel it always falls on deaf ears. :(  Most motherboard companies are fairly rubbish at update descriptions but I think Gigabyte takes the biscuit.
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

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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R power up problems?
« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2010, 01:16:58 pm »
Well its been a week now and no problems at boot up from soft off so far... and I've been doing at least three starts a day from soft-off with > 2hours since the machine went into soft-off... I think I can safely say the beta bios has sorted the power management problems regarding the graphics card  :)

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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R power up problems?
« Reply #10 on: August 11, 2010, 01:19:59 pm »
If that's the case I think it's safe to assume that it will be listed as a full update soon.
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