GA-X58 UD7 FC7 BIOS Problem

[alexjbeckett]

Hi,
I recently used the gigabyte utility to update my bios and after it was finished and followed the instructions to load optimized defaults. After which i keep getting BSOD when using or starting windows. I tried changing my sata modes to ahci but that did not seem to solve the problem, i have also reinstalled windows 7 64bit and it still bsod.

Is there anyway i can go back to the last stable release which is FB?

Thanks

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

Well you can either reflash your BIOS as you did but using the FB version or you can try nad get the backup BIOS to kick in and reflash the Main BIOS. If you want to try this way then follow the  next steps:

You can kick in the backup BIOS by shutting down the PSU from the wall, then hold down your case power button in and then turn on the power supply button, a few seconds later the board will start, shut off the power supply then.  
Then you can turn on the power supply again and power up the board normally and DualBIOS will kick in.

You said that you changed modes from IDE to AHCI but you must stick with whichever one you used to setup the system and not swap around afterwards.

[alexjbeckett]

I'll give that a go thanks.

The reason why i wanted to update the bios was because i installed another 4gb of ram into my machine to bring it to a total of 8GB. It was working fine windows and the bios detected 8gb. I came back the next day switched it on and it said that i now have 4gb not sure what happened.

Can i reflash the bios using q-flash and a usb stick?

[Dark Mantis]

Ah! More info.
Right then with the added information I would suggest not going back to your FB BIOS yet at least as I suspect it is something else that is causing the BSODs.
Check your memory and make sure it is all fitting tight. It certainly sounds more like a memory problem so download and run Memtest86+ on all your modules one at a time in the first slot for at least 10 loops each and we will see if it is a faulty stick first.

Memtest86+    http://www.memtest.org/

[alexjbeckett]

Well when it happened i ran memtest on each chip and every configuration and it all passed ok

[Dark Mantis]

Well when it happened i ran memtest on each chip and every configuration and it all passed ok

If you are sure that you ran it properly and there were no p[roblems then I would think it is more likely down to settings in the BIOS then. If you remove two modules and then run the system does it work alright?