GA-X58A-UD3R problem with GV-N480D5-15I-B

[Dark Mantis]

Well I really don't know what to suggest Viccctor. I can understand your reluctance to gamble your hard drive again. It would seem to be a board issue in that it is not writing to the drives properly. Maybe you should RMA it too.

[Viccctor]

Anyway, Thank You, Dark Mantis, for having concern in my problem. 

[Dark Mantis]

Viccctor can you let us know what BIOS version you are running on the motherboard?

[Viccctor]

BIOS is F9e

[Dark Mantis]

Viccctor every time I think maybe I have the solution you sc**w me. I was discussing it with my collegue and he suggested a BIOS update but I think you have a newer one already.
I am right in thinking your board is an X58-UD5 , yes?

[Dark Mantis]

GA-EX58-UD5 - F13m
is available at TweakTown Forum http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/28441-gigabyte-latest-bios.html

[Viccctor]

Never mind There is some newer versions on official site. But this one used to work well for several months. And, again, with another MOBO (GA-X58A-UD3R rev.2.0) i tried FA, FB and FC1... Looks like I have a new useless and expensive toy. Even tried to RMA it two months ago, but testing in Moscow (if they ever tested it) didn`t show any problems. I still have a strange feeling that if I plug in some GTX4xx board it will work well. But, unfortunately, I don`t have this option. I think so because my system was stable with GTX460 first in 16x slot, then, after the system became unstable, it was stable again with GTX460 in x8 slot. But after all it had never been stable with 8400gs and 8600gt. May be this is because 8400gs and 8600gt don`t require an external power? So it can be a permanent power line damage of PCI-E expansion slots and the south bridge power line, if it is not the same line, may be, caused by faulty GTX460..

Will try F13m though

[Dark Mantis]

Yes I think its worth trying. What have you got to lose? If it works you owe absic a bottle of Vodka.

[Viccctor]

Tried F13m. To make the story short - there are the same problems.

But at first it looked much better, my HDD (Samsung) worked more quiet (or may be not, now it was placed different on my table), Win7 installed, then updates installed with no visible problems after reboot, then after installation of realtek soumd was the first trouble running HD application on startup after reboot - reinstalled ok. But now HDD started clicking from time to time. So I scheduled CHKDSK after reboot, still checking (20mins) - plenty of errors, the sequence of errors detected looks somehow the same as in previous attempts.

So I think every time there are errors of the same nature (HDD space addressing/misplacing problem?), but the time they occur is random. There was also some bad clusters replaced by Windows in one file, this is not phisical drive error, right?

[Dark Mantis]

There was also some bad clusters replaced by Windows in one file, this is not phisical drive error, right?

No I wouldn't expect so just corruption of the drives data being rewritten. Of course that could also be caused by the drive's cache memory or the data controller on the drive.

If I remember correctly we haven't checked the CPU socket pins so far. So maybe that would be an idea. They are very easilly bent and often give this sort of effect when bent. If you can't make up your mind about them try taking a couple of macro(close up) photos and post them here for us to check for you.

[Viccctor]

Checked socket pins just before installing the CPU - looked ok. I`m reading this board for a couple of weeks already, so I`ve also checked GA-X58A-UD3R socked pins before I RMA`d it. I even made some photos (all UD3R). Looked ok.

Looked on my HDD`s S.M.A.R.T. There is 1 pending sector, no other errors. But HDTune says that the drive supports UDMA7, though it is running UDMA8, which is not supported. The same situation was before, when I checked my previous assembly. In normal conditions my HDDs (both WD) were running UDMA5 mode while UDMA6 was supported. After my system failed first time, sometimes, when I managed to install Windows, one or both of HDDs were running UDMA7 while UDMA6 was supported (regarding HDTune data). This can explain errors occurance.

[Dark Mantis]

I even made some photos (all UD3R). Looked ok.

Post them and we can check them aslo.

Looked on my HDD`s S.M.A.R.T. There is 1 pending sector, no other errors. But HDTune says that the drive supports UDMA7, though it is running UDMA8, which is not supported. The same situation was before, when I checked my previous assembly. In normal conditions my HDDs (both WD) were running UDMA5 mode while UDMA6 was supported. After my system failed first time, sometimes, when I managed to install Windows, one or both of HDDs were running UDMA7 while UDMA6 was supported (regarding HDTune data). This can explain errors occurance.

Maybe, I'm really not sure but it does sound suspicious.

[Viccctor]

Here is the photo.

http://picasaweb.google.ru/lh/photo/ATg3LY301o4aIAwTZqL6gg?feat=directlink

[Dark Mantis]

The photo could have been a bit bigger Viccctor but I couldn't see any bent pins.

[Viccctor]

By the way, have You clicked on the magnifying glass button at the top right corner?