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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: JekylHyde on July 30, 2010, 11:03:47 pm
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Hi
i just bought a new PC.
i'm trying for 2 days now to install windows but it's not stable.
first i installed win7 64bit. it was slow. & when i installed the ATI driver after reboot the system was all blue screens. over & over again.
so i installed vista. vista32 for starters (my cpu is 64).
it was more stable. but still bluescreens here & there.
so i went to the bios & disabled the new intel turbo option & it was stable. i now could install games & play!
so after an hour i quited to windows & ran the computer rating app that vista has to see how powerfull my system is. but after that ... i got reset.
& every time i went to windows after 20-30 sec the system auto rest itself...
i'm trying now to install XP 32bit.
just to see if it will be stable.
but i really don't know what to do.
is my bios settings are wrong?
the final thing is of course to be able to install win7 64bit.
my sys:
MB: GA-X58A-UD5 (rev. 1.0)
core i7 930 2.8Mhz 8mb cache
12Gb DDR3 1333MHZ PVT36G1333LLK
asus radeon hd 5750 1GB
hdd WD1002FAEX 1TB
(i ran memtest & it was OK).
links:
http://www.patriotmemory.com/products/detailp.jsp?prodline=5&catid=23&prodgroupid=111&id=759&type=1
http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/download-center.aspx?kw=GA-X58A-UD5
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=5387&p_created=&p_cats=185&p_cv=1.185&p_pv=2.279&p_prods=227%2C279
help!!! ???
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What PSU do you have (make/mode)? And are you using the 8pin?
HDD in the bule SATA ports?
Also even with a new HDD the drive could be faulty.
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What PSU do you have (make/mode)? And are you using the 8pin?
HDD in the bule SATA ports?
Also even with a new HDD the drive could be faulty.
what Power Supply Unit?
chieftec nitro 750w modular psu 14cm fan, active pfc bps-750c
& yes...the blue.
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Unsure how good or well made that PSU is for your setup it seems to have good points about....
Run the Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (CD) to see if the HDD is faulty.
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=613&sid=30&lang=en
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friend has a problem with this harddisk in sata3 port
for moment the solution is to plug in a sata2 port
Pierre
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Yes.. check the HDD and see it's faulty or not.
You may try 2GB or 4GB memory first...
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Noticed you got rev. 1.0 F3 & F5 have some Enhanced memory compatibility done for is so try updating the BIOS to F5.
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Noticed you got rev. 1.0 F3 & F5 have some Enhanced memory compatibility done for is so try updating the BIOS to F5.
people warned me from bios updating. they said it might leave me with a bad MB...
& that i might throw it to the garbage.
btw what is gsata?
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Hi,
If you flash BIOS with the QFlash Utility it is normally pretty easy and there is less chance of things going wrong.
DO NOT use the@BIOS Windows software as this can cause more problems then it solves.
gsata is the term used for the Gigabyte SATA ports
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Try running with only half your memory to start with you can add the rest aftewr you get a stable system and as absic said update your BIOS from the Q-Flash utility not Windows based @BIOS.
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Try running with only half your memory to start with you can add the rest aftewr you get a stable system and as absic said update your BIOS from the Q-Flash utility not Windows based @BIOS.
i don't know if it solved it but i took it out of the gsata into a notmal sata & so far (so far) looks fine.
as i understand i have the hdd now on 3Gb/s speed & not 6... so i'm losing half speed.
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i don't know if it solved it but i took it out of the gsata into a notmal sata & so far (so far) looks fine.
gsata are white ports the others sata ports are blue yes?
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The GSATA ports are not 6GBs anyway but if you are talking about the SATA3 Marvell based ports they have never lived up to the hype and are only about the same as the SATA2 for performance.
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i don't know if it solved it but i took it out of the gsata into a notmal sata & so far (so far) looks fine.
gsata are white ports the others sata ports are blue yes?
the blue is sata2 as i saw on the MB
white is gsata3
(why they call them gsata3 & not sata3?)
anyway i think that they are the one that problematic.
thank you Pierre for the tip
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From the top, the blue ports are SATA2(six) then comes the white GSATA3 ports(two) and finally the white GSATA2 ports(two)
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From the top, the blue ports are SATA2(six) then comes the white GSATA3 ports(two) and finally the white GSATA2 ports(two)
what is the different between sata2 & gsata2?
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gSATA2 and gSATA3 are "invented" by Gigabyte as shown in figure below. The first six SATA ports are connected directly to the Intel ICH10R.
(http://www.upload3r.com/serve/310710/1280583678.png)
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As far as I am aware it is only Gigabyte branding on the SATA2 interface. There is only SATA2 and SATA3 the first is 3Gbs and the second(in theory) is 6GBs.
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I got a WD 640GB SATA3 HDD and is currently connected to one of the gSATA3 ports. Do you think I can simply swap it to SATA2 port which is connected directly to the Intel ICH10R?
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I got a WD 640GB SATA3 HDD and is currently connected to one of the gSATA3 ports. Do you think I can simply swap it to SATA2 port which is connected directly to the Intel ICH10R?
Give us some benchmarks while your at it. :P
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I got a WD 640GB SATA3 HDD and is currently connected to one of the gSATA3 ports. Do you think I can simply swap it to SATA2 port which is connected directly to the Intel ICH10R?
Yes no problem at all. It is the same drive as my two but i am running them in a RAID0 configuration. I tried them on the Marvell 9128 SATA3 ports and was very disappointed so moved them to the SATA2 and there was hardly any difference. So much for the "four times faster than SATA 2" advertising blurb ::)
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It is the same drive as my two but i am running them in a RAID0 configuration. I tried them on the Marvell 9128 SATA3 ports and was very disappointed so moved them to the SATA2 and there was hardly any difference. So much for the "four times faster than SATA 2" advertising blurb ::)
Bet the the random reads/writes were better. ;D
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It is the same drive as my two but i am running them in a RAID0 configuration. I tried them on the Marvell 9128 SATA3 ports and was very disappointed so moved them to the SATA2 and there was hardly any difference. So much for the "four times faster than SATA 2" advertising blurb ::)
Bet the the random reads/writes were better. ;D
To be honest Peter, I can't remember the figures now but I have always used a SSD for booting from. I have a 256Gb Corsair Performance and it is very good.
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1 - Not SSD Sata 3 disks run at same speed connected to Sata2 or SATA3 ports
2 - also problem exist with WD1002FAX
look this french post :
http://forum.gigabyte.fr/index.php/topic,7951.0.html
no solution at this time , possible WD firmware problem
PIerre
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Yes I understand what you are getting at Pierre. I have heard about this Western Digital SATA3 problem before and as you say as far a I know there has been no fix produced.
By the way that link was no good they were all talking a different language ;D Je no comprende!
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you can use :
http://www.google.fr/language_tools?hl=us
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Pierre
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Yes thanks Pierre, I was aware of the translator but it is useful for anyone reading that didn't know. ;)