Hey there so I have about 10 GA-P67A-UD7-B3 boards and all of them exhibit the same issues with Power Cycling, not powering on at all, and frame drop during video play back. I also have a GA-P67A-UD7 that does not exhibit ANY of these issues but is susceptible to the B2 degrading SATA ports. Is anyone having any of the issues below or is it just me?
- If the machine refuses to boot after all the power has been drained there are 2 ways to get it to power on:
- One way is to pull the IEC cable, flip the power switch, plug the IEC back in, and flip the power switch back. This will get power back into the MOBO
- The second way is to press the CMOS Reset twice.
- Occasionally when the power is drained the machine will just enter a boot cycle turning on and off every 5-10 seconds
- To fix this we just need to press the CMOS reset or do the IEC and switch procedure above.
- The Frame Drop issue also follows the B3 Motherboards. More testing is being performed but seems to be isolated to a few MPEG2 codecs happening with higher resolution video. This is not a codec issues as it only happens with the B3 boards and functions normally with several other MOBOs.
We have 11 machines with the exact same setup below and they all exhibit the issues above. The GA-P67A-UD7 does not have any of the issues even after swapping the parts of the GA-P67A-UD7-B3 RAM CPU and all into it and it continues to function properly. The issues follow the GA-P67A-UD7-B3 board. Below is the setup we have for all the machines. Hopefully a BIOS update fixes the power cycling issue. We have even used a different Corsair PSU with no luck the power issue is reproducible.
The setup we are using is below:
OS: XP32bit (I know it is old)
GA-P67A-UD7-B3
CPU: i7 2600
RAM: X2 4GB Corsair
PSU: 750w
GFX1: XFX HD4870
GFX2: XFX HD4670
HD 1: 10K 300GB WD C:
HD 2: 7200 500GB WD D:
HD 3: 7200 500GB WD E:
