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GA-X58A-UD3R POST Problems

GA-X58A-UD3R POST Problems
« on: April 16, 2010, 04:14:05 pm »
Just set up the computer a couple of weeks ago. Worked fine until this past weekend. I was working on a short video file and got a BSOD. Rebooted, but the Computer would not P.O.S.T. Reset the bios on the back of the motherboard, but that didn't work.
Then Sunday morning I took out the cmos battery, waited one minute and replaced it. CMOS was reset and computer booted fine.
Monday evening, All I get is the Gigabyte splash screen and it never goes any further. Tried resetting cmos and replacing the battery again, but nothing works now. Does this indicate a bad motherboard?
Update: I was finally able to reach someone at tech support and I was able to get the machine to POST and he suggested that I upgrade the bios to F5 which I did. 15 minutes later I get a BSOD. I reset the cmos settings to "Failsafe" mode and used the rest of the evening with no BSOD, but I'm not sure if I am running at optimum speed.  Any suggestions like memory timings that may be causing problems?
GA-X58A-UD3R
Intel Core i7-930 Processor
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000)
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scjet

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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R POST Problems
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2010, 02:30:10 am »
 Hi,
 there's a few posts regarding bsod's issues and memory configs/timings around here, but it appears that the ud3r's seem a little bit picky regrading memory?
 In my case, just lately, I had my i930 OC'd to 3.66 GHz, and my G.Skill tri-channels running at 1333Mhz, every once in awhile the Memory sets itself back down to 1066, so I set my memory timings up,  to post at 1666Mhz and haven't ANY problems at all -works great now.

 anyhow, It sounds like you set defauts in your BIOS to "Optimzed defaults". If so, and your using windows, you can try Giga's Overclock utility -Easy Tune 6, http://www.giga-byte.com/Support/Motherboard/Utility_List.aspx
 or whatever the latest is.
 http://www.giga-byte.com/Support/Motherboard/Utility_DownloadFile.aspx?FileType=Utility&FileID=86
 It OC's safely. Either way, its a good tool to see your timings...
 I used it to get my i930 to easily clock an i975, afterwards I went back in BIOS and got even more out of it.
 Hopefully, that'll help.
 anyway, it worked for me.
GL

« Last Edit: April 18, 2010, 02:53:37 am by scjet »
MB: GA-X58A-UD3R / GA-890FXA-UD5
CPU: Intel Core i7-930 / AMD Phenom II 1090T
Heatsink: Noctua NH-U12P SE2 / NH-C12P SE14
Mem: G.Skill DDR3-1600 Triple-Ch 1.5V (12800CL9T-6G) / Corsair CMX8GX3M2A1333C9 Dual-Ch 1.5V DDR3-1333 (16-Gig kit)

OS: Linux*/*BSD/OpenSolaris/Windows7-64

rabeel

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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R POST Problems
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2010, 04:36:58 am »
I've had all those problems, and after numerous Q/A with gigabyte they finally told me to RMA it.

Re: GA-X58A-UD3R POST Problems
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2010, 04:04:01 am »
Figured it out
Unplugged a usb card reader and it booted fine.

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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R POST Problems
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2010, 08:25:02 am »
Hi
That must be the longest bootup in history...8 months!!  ;D
« Last Edit: December 14, 2010, 08:26:12 am by Dark Mantis »
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