X58A-UD3R booting problem?

[garethlean]

Hello guys don't know if i have a problem with my new PC or not yet!! 

Basicaly when i press the power button to switch on all the case fans fire up for a second, all switch off for a second and then boots up to windows.

Does this every time i swich on.(sometimes does it twice)  If i restart from windows it restarts fine.

If i let it go to sleep moving the mouse does not wake it, i have to hold power button to power down and restart (reset does not work and it does it's on off thing) then resumes windows.

Reset the cmos and battery removed, all power conections checked

little strange    just wanted to know what you all thought before i arrange return to Aria to get it looked at.

Thanks for any input you may have for me 

Gareth Lean




X58a-UD3R
OCZ 700W PSU
I7 950
6gb1600mhz OCZ gold ram
solid state boot drive and 1tb data drive

[Dark Mantis]

Hi Gareth and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.
Firstly can you list all your hardware please?
Next try booting with one stick of memory in the primary slot. Does the same thing happen?

[Gary123]

Hi Gareth. It's normal for all the fans to run (and a lot of LEDs to light) for a couple of seconds when you do a cold boot.

What are your BIOS and Windows settings for the on/off behavior of the mouse and the power button?

[garethlean]

Thanks for the speed reply, below is the list of components

i shall just resart now and see what happens!

Coolermaster CM 690 II Pure
OCZ 700W ModXStream Pro Power
4  x 140mm Yate Loon D14SL-12 1000R
Intel Core i7 950 3.06Ghz
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X5
Zalman CNPS10X-Quiet CPU Cooler
OCZ 6GB PC3-12800 Gold Low-Vol
Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5"
Western Digital Caviar Black 1tb
EVGA GeForce GTX 460 1024MB
Sony AD-5260S-0B 24x Internal
Win Home Premium E 7 English R
 

[garethlean]

Hi Gareth. It's normal for all the fans to run (and a lot of LEDs to light) for a couple of seconds when you do a cold boot.

What are your BIOS and Windows settings for the on/off behavior of the mouse and the power button?

Thanks Gary,

I think everything is set to standard although i have set it to never sleep now

was just the random on-off cycle which had me concerned

[Dark Mantis]

Right well I expect you have the C300 SSD installed on the Marvell 9128 SATA3 controller port. If so you need to move it to the first Intel ICH10R Southbridge controlled port. This will in fact probably give you more speed as the Marvell ports are a bit of a let down. The only thing is this might necessitate re-installing Windows.

[garethlean]

Right well I expect you have the C300 SSD installed on the Marvell 9128 SATA3 controller port. If so you need to move it to the first Intel ICH10R Southbridge controlled port. This will in fact probably give you more speed as the Marvell ports are a bit of a let down. The only thing is this might necessitate re-installing Windows.

I would expect both drives to be connected to the SATA 6 ports as they are both sata 6??

Aria made it up for me so i'm still learning what they have done!

[Dark Mantis]

It is not recommended to run a SSD offf the Mavell ports for several reasons one of which is that it doesn't pass on  the TRIM commands essential to the health of your SSD. These ports will run your magnetic disk ok but don't expect anything like the supposed 6GBs from them. They are in actuallity slower than the Intel Southbridge SATA2 ports.

NB Gigabyte uses it's own notation for SATA speeds and the Industry Standard of SATA 6 is the same as SATA3 6GBs on Gigabyte boards.

[garethlean]

Well i swapped the SATA conectors over and powering on appears fine for now.....

Both sleep and hibernate wake ups work intermittently.

Perhaps it will settle itself down!

thank you so much for you input

[Dark Mantis]

You are more than welcome Gareth and come back anytime 

[garethlean]

Well looks like my problems aren't over just yet,......

On switch on this morning it did it's wee on-off thing and booted up.
It went to sleep and wouldn't wake up, so had to hold power button to reset, then it wouldn't allow me to use keyboard to choose to restore windows or start afresh. Tried a reset of the bios, wouldn't go. Went into bios to enable the USB keyboard and got it to boot.

I'm thinking that I should just return it to aria for them to fix.

In your guys view does it sound like a main board fault or some sort of incompatibility?

Gareth

[Dark Mantis]

In all honesty it is very hard to say at this point but I would go for incompatiblity or settings problem as being the most likely. The thing is it could take quite a while of trying different configurations etc to pin it down so if you can take it back and let them have the headache I think that would be favourite from your point of view. After all you paid them for a working machine not one with problems.

[jdvoracek]

In your guys view does it sound like a main board fault or some sort of incompatibility?

I built an i7-930 box with this mobo not realizing it was pushing the edge of technology.  What I have learned is that leading edge is touchy.  This may not apply to you, but I noticed you cleared CMOS, so if you are running your memory at 1600, are you doing it yourself or with the XMP memory feature?  What I found (among a lot of other things) was a sleep/resume problem with Mushkin Redline memory if I manually set BIOS to run the memory at 1600.  However, when setting it at 1600 using XMP, all was well.  The issue, so far as I can tell, is that when you overclock memory, the qpi/vtt voltage is just as important, maybe more so, than the DRAM voltage.  I was not increasing qpi/vtt when I manually clocked the memory to 1600, but the XMP profile did.  That was the only setting difference between my system resuming successfully from sleep and not resuming.  Just an observation.

[Dark Mantis]

And a very interesting one jdvoracek. I must say I hadn't noticed that detail.

[lowercase]

Hi,

I have exactly the same problem with the FB BIOS.
It doesn't return from sleep and sometimes has these booting loops.

Components:
GA-X58A-UD3R rev 2.0
Intel Core i7 950
3x4GB Mushkin Silverline 1333 CL9 (but the bios set it automatically to 1067 CL7)
240GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD (ICH10R SATA2_0)
4x2TB Seagate HDD (ICH10R SATA2_1 to SATA2_5)
Sapphire HD 5970 Graphics Card
Coolermaster HX1000W Power Supply