GA-MA78GPM-DS2H bios freezes up

[spacman]

Just installed new Athlon II X2 250 to my GA-MA78GPM-DS2H and noticed that bios freezes up when i try to change "AMD C1 support" option in advanced bios features. Bios is latest F6f. It is by defalt disabled but when i choose item bios freezes up with following picture and only reset switch works. Is it a bug in bios or something else?

System info:

-GA-MA78GPM-DS2H with latest F6f bios
-Athlon II X2 250
-2x Transcend 1Gb DDR2 800Mhz on sockets 3&4 (won't fit to 1&2 because of cpu cooler)
-Antec 430w PSU
-ATI Radeon HD 5750 Graphics

[absic]

Hi,

at first look I think it is probably a problem with the BIOS. Have you tried re-flashing with the F5 version to see what happens?

[Dark Mantis]

Certainly looks like a BIOS glitch.

[spacman]

Hi,

at first look I think it is probably a problem with the BIOS. Have you tried re-flashing with the F5 version to see what happens?

No i haven't. But since this is not nothing serious and my computers works fine i will wait for bios update

[absic]

Looking at the BIOS versions for your Mobo I would assume that the F6f is a beta version (although they don't say it is).

If everything else with your system is OK then you are right not to re-flash but remember, if you do start having glitches, you can always go back to the F5 while waiting for a newer BIOS version to be released.

[Nemesis Destiny]

I hate to necro a perfectly dead thread, but I searched through 15 pages of AMD-related posts and did not see this come up again.

I am having the exact same issue, same motherboard, though with a different CPU. I just upgraded to a 960T, so I have to use the most recent, F6h BIOS (as far as I know). The symptom of this is that Windows Vista 32 can't seem to properly manage the p-states, and so the CPU spends most of its time screaming away at 3000MHz, when it should be happily idling at 800MHz.

The old chip was a 9150e, and it spent most of its time at 900MHz, so this one should be capable of this as well, given my usual workload (email, Firefox, Winamp). I disabled Turbo Core, and that seems to have helped, but it still runs too high. I will resort to K10STAT if I must, but I would really rather not have to mess with that.

The BIOS flash procedure went without a hitch and checksum was fine. Any ideas?

I have put in a ticket to Gigabyte tech support, but nothing yet.