Cold boot failures x58A-ud3r Rev2 bios FB

[fatbobuk]

I am still awaiting a reply from them regarding this issue

[Dark Mantis]

Forgive my ignorance, but is GGTS the tech support part of the website?

Yes you are quite correct GGTS is Gigabyte Global Technical Support

I am still awaiting a reply from them regarding this issue

Hey, nowhere in that sentence do you see the word fast

[fatbobuk]

They have been very good and fast with everything else but sorting the problem

[theboyfold]

Yes you are quite correct GGTS is Gigabyte Global Technical Support

Thanks, I've sent a mail. I'll let you know what they come back with. Once I'm home I'll try the FC3 BIOS and see what happens.

Also, silly question, but should the system SSD be plugged into a particular port?

[Dark Mantis]

It is best to have it on port 0 the first port on the Southbridge controller.

[fatbobuk]

Where have you got this FC3 Bios from

Last one I had was FC1

[d3fiant]

I have also been plagued with the cold boot issue on the UD3R v2.  I haven't solved the issue but have found a compromise.  I am running B18 beta bios and do not have the cold boot BSOD issue, I do however get an error on cold boot post that states 'recovering missing dram' the reboots and works fine the next boot.  This to me is much better than several BSOD until the system is 'warmed up' and lowers the risk of OS corruption.  I still think there is something really wrong with this motherboard and will not advise people to buy it (I have built several game systems on this mobo for friends, only mine plays up)

I did RMA the mobo cpu and memory but the reseller found no fault and charged me for the joy of it, they ran the bloody tests in IDE mode and the cold boot issue only plagues me in AHCI mode

[Dark Mantis]

I did RMA the mobo cpu and memory but the reseller found no fault and charged me for the joy of it, they ran the bloody tests in IDE mode and the cold boot issue only plagues me in AHCI mode

Are you using a SSD for booting then?  If not you are not really gaining anything much in the way of speed over IDE mode and you would benefit from the stability.

[theboyfold]

Where have you got this FC3 Bios from

Last one I had was FC1

The link is here: http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/28441-gigabyte-latest-bios.html
 If you install it in the next couple of days, please let me know how you get on.

I have also been plagued with the cold boot issue on the UD3R v2.  I haven't solved the issue but have found a compromise.  I am running B18 beta bios and do not have the cold boot BSOD issue

Do you have a link for this?

Are you using a SSD for booting then?  If not you are not really gaining anything much in the way of speed over IDE mode and you would benefit from the stability.

Which mode should we select if we are booting from an SSD?

[Dark Mantis]

Quote from: Dark Mantis on Yesterday at 10:42:02 pm
Are you using a SSD for booting then?  If not you are not really gaining anything much in the way of speed over IDE mode and you would benefit from the stability.

Which mode should we select if we are booting from an SSD?

No it was not a case of which mode to use when booting but which mode gives greater stability. The OP was complaining of BSODs when in AHCI mode that why I recommended using IDE mode over AHCI.

[notshy]

I've switched to Corsair 1600Mhz CAS8 Ram (TR3X6G1600C8D) and seems to be working a lot better on cold boots - so far so good - although I will know more after a week or so.

I had set everything back to Auto and set XMP Profile 1 - it failed on 5th pass of IntelBurnTest on Maximum - so I've upped the QPI/VTT a bit and will re-run my tests.

So far so good though ...

[Dark Mantis]

Yes it is excellent memory for these boards and very stable. I am running it myself and would like to upgrade it to 12Gb to fill the slots so I could test the board out with that configuration but it is fairly expensive when you have to buy triple kits.

[notshy]

That OCZ Gold Series should come with a severe heath warning ... off to eBay it goes !

[Dark Mantis]

I have had nothing but trouble with the OCZ memory even though it used to be good quality kit. The few times I have tried to use it have ended in replacements.

[Gary123]

Not to dispute your experience, but just to provide another data point, my OCZ3G1600LV6GK has worked flawlessly (both at stock 1066 and at 1600) with my GA-X58A-UD3R(r2 FB). Win7 is very stable and memtest86+/Prime95 pass all tests.