x58a-ud7 restart issue with new F7 bios

[andyvee]

Hi all , i have got a problem with the new F7 bios and am hoping someone can help ( logged a ticket with Gigabyte but no reply still so far ) . Anyways after updating i now find that most times i restart my machine it will stop after showing the bios version ( ie no cpu id message , ram size etc ) and will need the reset to be pushed , the code reader on the board always displays 50 at this pont , i have tried disabling all usb legacy options with no change . The bios settings are just set to optimal and i am using xmp profile 1 for my corsair 1600 ram , proc is a i7-930 at standard clocks . This never occured with F6 which is what my board shipped with , any ideas ? .

[andyvee]

Ok i have done some more testing as this was getting annoying . I have rolled back to the F6 bios and the issue has gone away completely , now back to a nice stable machine  , so it seems to be something in the F7 causing an issue as it comes back with problems when that is installed . I would also add that i am using pretty much all the back USB connections including the USB3 devices if that helps ?! .

[Dark Mantis]

Well as I said earlier (in another thread) my setup seems to be almost identical to yours, so if we can start from there. Can you list all your hardware, including PSU and OS please( I know the OS is not the issue but just for a complete picture)?

[andyvee]

ok hardware is

800d case
x58a-ud7 rev 1
i7-930
3*2gb 1600 corsair dimms
2*gtx280's
corsair hx1000 psu
samsung blu ray player / dvd writer
win 7 ultimate 64
ps2 keyboard & mouse

stuff plugged into usb's

zboard
iphone dock
samsung printer
2 * ambx light sets
joystick
sidewinder x8 mouse


Thinks thats about it , as above issue has not occured since going back to F6

[Dark Mantis]

Thanks for the details, as you can see from my signature the setup is very similar apart from the watercooling.
I see you are running the rev 1.0 board the same as me, a much better board in my opinion.

As you say now you have reverted to the F6 BIOS your system is stable again so that proves the BIOS update theory doesn't it. It's just that I am using the new F7 BIOS update and have had no problems so far. Is your BIOS setup standard or have you tweaked it at all? Apart from the XMP for the Corsair Dominators and the disabling of all the power saving modes mine is standard.

[andyvee]

I did'nt bother with my cooling but its liquid on the cpu and gfx are on air .

Only things i changed in the bios were the xmp profile , apart from that everything was left as set by optimal while testing this out ( now i'm back on the F6 i have put other settings the way i prefer them but tried F6 as optimal and still have no problems ) .

With F7 i tried optimal , fail safe and my own settings but all gave the same results .

[Dark Mantis]

So fairly much the same settings apart from the power saving ones. If you want to try the F7 BIOS again it might be worth trying disabling them like I have done and see if that makes a difference. It is surprising how many problems(seemingly unrelated) are caused by these settings.

[andyvee]

ok , tried it again and disabled all power saving options but it did it again on 2nd reboot . I've dropped back to F6 again and will wait to hear from tech when they read my mail , hopefully they'll come through with a fix or new bios at some point .

[Dark Mantis]

The only other option I can suggest is to use one of the latest beta versions. I think they are up to about F7v. If you are interested you can get it on Tweaktown : http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/28441-gigabyte-latest-bios.html

[andyvee]

Thanks , i've been lurking on tweaktown a while but did'nt use any of the beta bios's as i thought i'd wait until it went to full release to save any hassle ! ( last beta i saw was f7w ) , i presume that the F7 on gigabytes site is newer than the beta's ? .

[Dark Mantis]

No, normally the betas are newer but not always stable. By the time they are thoroughly tested and put on the official website they are obviously older.

[Court]

Sorry to hear about your problem dude, like Mantis I'm running Rev 1.0 and I updated to F7. So far so good, but I'm not running any profiles for my corsair sticks.

Can I ask how did you carry out the update to the bios?

[andyvee]

I just used the @bios programe , did the update from a file option , worked fine so far , been back and forth between F6 & 7 a few times over the last few days

[Dark Mantis]

Purely for future reference I wouldn't advise the use of the @BIOS program. It can be far too risky and leave you with a non-functioning motherboard. Much better is to use the included QFlash that is available by holding downn the "END" key when booting. Much safer and easy enough to do.

Sorry to hear about your problem dude, like Mantis I'm running Rev 1.0 and I updated to F7. So far so good, but I'm not running any profiles for my corsair sticks.

Why are you not using the XMP option?

[Court]

Sorry to hear about your problem dude, like Mantis I'm running Rev 1.0 and I updated to F7. So far so good, but I'm not running any profiles for my corsair sticks.

Why are you not using the XMP option?

Wasn't sure which one I should select