I purchased 10 Gigabyte (GA-H67A-UD3H-B3) for classroom setups with the ability to provide video to Monitor/smartboard with specs (see below),
GIGABYTE GA-H67A-UD3H-B3 (same results with all ver. of bios up to F4)
Intel Core i5-2500K
Antec EarthWatts EA-500D
XFX HD-583X-ZAFC
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) F3-10600CL9D-4GBNT
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500418AS
Sony Optical Drive
The 1st unit I setup I installed 64bit Win7 pro and the remaining 9 were cloned with Acronics, so all setups were exactly alike.
7 out of 10 are constantly experiencing BSOD at random, (idle/or load) with errors as follows:
(An attempt to reset display driver and recover from time out failed ***atikmpag.sys***) All 10 have done this but 7 constantly. Now if you think ati is prob, NO. I put in nvidia and same error only ***nvidkpag.sys***, so then I tried a usb wireless video setup and this time a intel error of ***intlkpag.sys***. Now after hrs. of research about this issue online I see it’s been a ongoing issue with (software blaming hardware and hardware blaming software) with a Vista/Win7 setup), now I also purchased 2 ASUS boards for other builds (ASUS P8H67-M PRO/CSM (REV 3.0) and I put all the same components in this board and (no errors) so that kinda eliminated the question of bad components.
The only way (so far) I have found to eliminate the errors was to remove the XFX video card, and use the onboard video, with a VGA splitter (which works fine) but with this setup when the computer goes into sleep mode the monitor will not wake up, (you must turn the power button on the monitor off then back on to proceed). This I cant seem to find a fix for (YET!!)
Im not here to flame Gigabyte but I have always been an asus fan with about a hundred builds under my belt (not a lot but enough to figure out a quality build), don’t get me wrong I have had my issues with Asus as well, but for the most part ya build em and ferget-about-em, they run flawlessly, but for some reason I decided to try Gigabye this time for my builds.
I love what potentials/options the Gigabyte board has to offer but it’s the littlest things that make it a quality build as well. Maybe with a little help from Gigabyte forums and a couple more bios updates this board will be at 100% but until then the board gets about a 75% from me so far.
Any ones help or sugestions appriceated
Thanks
Jeepy