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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: AleR on January 11, 2013, 06:12:50 am

Title: Z77X-D3H and freezes with expansion cards
Post by: AleR on January 11, 2013, 06:12:50 am

Video card installed to PCIEX16.
When PCI-E x1 Sound card installed to PCIEX4  it cause random freezes in games.

Tried to reinstall Windows 7 and update bios to F16 and F17f, but it didn't help.

Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H - rev 1.0 - bios F16/F17f
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 Ti
Asus Xonar (Also try with Creative X-Fi) PCI-E x1 Sound card

Title: Re: Z77X-D3H and freezes with expansion cards
Post by: ysw on January 15, 2013, 03:00:44 am

http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/28441-gigabyte-latest-beta-bios.html
you can go to above website to update to latest bios to try.
how about install sound card into other pciex1 slot? or x8 slot?
are u using sandy brdige cpu?

Title: Re: Z77X-D3H and freezes with expansion cards
Post by: AleR on January 18, 2013, 06:57:56 am

Quote from: ysw on January 15, 2013, 03:00:44 am

http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/28441-gigabyte-latest-beta-bios.html
you can go to above website to update to latest bios to try.
how about install sound card into other pciex1 slot? or x8 slot?
are u using sandy brdige cpu?

On same day, when F17h firmware was uploaded, i return this motherboard and bought another (not same model) -

CPU is Ivy bridge (3570k).

There are no x8 slot - there 2 x16 slots and they work as x8+x8 when 2 cards installed because there only 16 pcie lines in cpu.
If you install sound card in second PCIEx16 - no freeze
PCIEx1 and PCIEx4 are same z77 line. When sound card in PCIEx1_1/1_3 - works fine, but to close to video card - bad cooling.