GA-X58A-UD3R electrical noises [solved]

[onemilimeter]

guys, I don´t see the point in repeating the same message in the same topic in the same forum... at least do it in different forums so that the news is more spread and as soon as someone Googles this motherboard, these messages of dissapointment will appear..

I support it... probably a Wikipedia page dedicated for this issue...

I don't know if any user wants to buy a Toyota car if Toyota insists that their cars have no problem with Shell fuel and the engine will produce some funny noise with other manufacturer fuels because Toyota claimed other fuels are not good.

It looks like now it is the customer to be blamed for picking up the so-called wrong PSUs. Then, Gigabyte should publish a list of PSUs that they assure will work well with the X58 motherboard... but they don't... or Gigabyte dares not to do so because they know it's a design flaw, I guess.

[onemilimeter]

Duplicated post.

[jaicigy]

i'm sorry you guys are having these troubles.  I guess i'm very lucky to have a x58a ud3r board that is completely silent. 
I hope you guys are able to resolve your issues.  Overall its a very nice board

Glad you've a silent board. Would you please share with us the PSU model that you're using? Thanks.

he already indicated that: Rosewill extreme 750watt PSU

Like I said before, this is more an issue of what the warranty really covers. Since the board is technically working fine then Gigabyte probably sees no point in resolving this noise issue and only learns from it through our complaints and tries to improve future boards or at least pay attention to it after design and first issues.. we are just test bunnies and I do not think this will be taken seriously, at least not with this board. All we can do is mention it in as many forums as possible to somewhat put a negative and unconfident view on Gigabyte, not much more

[Dark Mantis]

No, I dont agree. The manufacturer advertises that this board has all these features and makes no mention of the fact that you cannot use them for fear of having a screeching sound. So basically it is false advertising and therefore not sold as described.

[onemilimeter]

he already indicated that: Rosewill extreme 750watt PSU

Like I said before, this is more an issue of what the warranty really covers. Since the board is technically working fine then Gigabyte probably sees no point in resolving this noise issue and only learns from it through our complaints and tries to improve future boards or at least pay attention to it after design and first issues.. we are just test bunnies and I do not think this will be taken seriously, at least not with this board. All we can do is mention it in as many forums as possible to somewhat put a negative and unconfident view on Gigabyte, not much more

Sorry... I didn't note it before making the post. Some of the Gigabyte replies indicate that the customer to be blamed for picking up the wrong PSU. I try to get a list of PSU that the user claims not having the noise issue. So far the following is what I get:
[1] FSP Epsilon 600W
[2] Ultra X2 and X3 (from a Gigabyte moderator in other forum)
[3] Rosewill xtreme 750W

Unfortunately, three of them are not popular at my place and I can't have them.

[jaicigy]

you have a point there Dark Mantis but I assure you that the Gigabyte support service does not take the bait and simply advices you to bring it to the dealer and in service they say, no problems found so how are we ever going to solve this?

[onemilimeter]

No, I dont agree. The manufacturer advertises that this board has all these features and makes no mention of the fact that you cannot use them for fear of having a screeching sound. So basically it is false advertising and therefore not sold as described.

That's true. For example, a Ferrari is advertised to be able to run at 200km/h with TurboBoost, but when a customer claims that at 200km/h the car produces some kind of funny noise. Then, Ferrari claims that you should disable TurboBoost and cruise at 190km/h. Do you think this is the correct way of marketing?

[jaicigy]

he already indicated that: Rosewill extreme 750watt PSU

Like I said before, this is more an issue of what the warranty really covers. Since the board is technically working fine then Gigabyte probably sees no point in resolving this noise issue and only learns from it through our complaints and tries to improve future boards or at least pay attention to it after design and first issues.. we are just test bunnies and I do not think this will be taken seriously, at least not with this board. All we can do is mention it in as many forums as possible to somewhat put a negative and unconfident view on Gigabyte, not much more

Sorry... I didn't note it before making the post. Some of the Gigabyte replies indicate that the customer to be blamed for picking up the wrong PSU. I try to get a list of PSU that the user claims not having the noise issue. So far the following is what I get:
[1] FSP Epsilon 600W
[2] Ultra X2 and X3 (from a Gigabyte moderator in other forum)
[3] Rosewill xtreme 750W

Unfortunately, three of them are not popular at my place and I can't have them.

So in other words, for no noise problems produced by the PSU, the less popular and uncommonly sold, the better for Gigabyte boards..

[Dark Mantis]

There is always legal redress. The Office of Fair Trading and the Trading Standards Agency in the UK would be interested I am sure and they don't care how big the company is. We have plenty of occurances to quote.

[onemilimeter]

you have a point there Dark Mantis but I assure you that the Gigabyte support service does not take the bait and simply advices you to bring it to the dealer and in service they say, no problems found so how are we ever going to solve this?

At least Gigabyte should act more professionally like Toyota... If they keep hiding the fact and keep blaming the PSU as main culprit, then customers may keep on changing new PSUs and will not get the problem solved at the end.

[Spiffy G.]

he already indicated that: Rosewill extreme 750watt PSU

Like I said before, this is more an issue of what the warranty really covers. Since the board is technically working fine then Gigabyte probably sees no point in resolving this noise issue and only learns from it through our complaints and tries to improve future boards or at least pay attention to it after design and first issues.. we are just test bunnies and I do not think this will be taken seriously, at least not with this board. All we can do is mention it in as many forums as possible to somewhat put a negative and unconfident view on Gigabyte, not much more

Sorry... I didn't note it before making the post. Some of the Gigabyte replies indicate that the customer to be blamed for picking up the wrong PSU. I try to get a list of PSU that the user claims not having the noise issue. So far the following is what I get:
[1] FSP Epsilon 600W
[2] Ultra X2 and X3 (from a Gigabyte moderator in other forum)
[3] Rosewill xtreme 750W

Unfortunately, three of them are not popular at my place and I can't have them.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182069
This is the exact PSU that i'm using.  I bought mine back in 2007 and its still running strong.   Maybe you can find the differences between the different PSUs that work and dont work with this board.

[dkslim]

i'm sorry you guys are having these troubles.  I guess i'm very lucky to have a x58a ud3r board that is completely silent. 

I hope you guys are able to resolve your issues.  Overall its a very nice board

Are you running Windows 7? I have W7 64 bit.
I have a feeling the noise might be OS related... I can't know for sure because I haven't had the time to test any other OS...

[kangoo]

after some googling i found this:

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anyone with this problem should go to gigatribe website and download and install the latest lan drivers,theyve just released new driver and its got rid of the noise my mother board was making,just uninstall ur lan driver and instal the new one and ittl be silent
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yes i used to stop it by disabling c1e halt state but with this new lan driver i can enable it now and it dont squeal at all,before it used to make a high pitched interferance sound that drove u nuts, the boards been great since so id deffo checkout gigabytes website for there new audio and lan drivers
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=14494226

[jaicigy]

after some googling i found this:

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anyone with this problem should go to gigatribe website and download and install the latest lan drivers,theyve just released new driver and its got rid of the noise my mother board was making,just uninstall ur lan driver and instal the new one and ittl be silent
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yes i used to stop it by disabling c1e halt state but with this new lan driver i can enable it now and it dont squeal at all,before it used to make a high pitched interferance sound that drove u nuts, the boards been great since so id deffo checkout gigabytes website for there new audio and lan drivers
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=14494226

Have you seen the date of publication of those comments??
Last one on 17th Jul 2009, 00:58 so that is like almost a year ago..
I have downloaded and installed only the latest drivers from the Gigabyte website and still have the noise problems so doesn´t work for me.. also if it was a software related issue, Gigabyte would have told me since I have presented this problem to the Gigabyte technical support service... maybe someone could try that other comment: ´Soon as you take the vcore off auto it stops, I figure its the voltage fluctuating so much that its causing some hum.´

[onemilimeter]

Are you running Windows 7? I have W7 64 bit.
I have a feeling the noise might be OS related... I can't know for sure because I haven't had the time to test any other OS...

Someone did claim that with Windows 7 and with C1E enabled, no noise was heard. Do you hv the same experience with Windows 7?