Problems with GA-MA770T-UD3 board

[ube_astard]

Hi guys. I have currently got major problems with this board I bought 2 days ago.I have a Athlon II x4 955 CPU, 2 GB memory and GPU is ATI HD 8900. I have installed windows 7 twice now and the same problems each time. The system might reboot in the middle of an installation, hang when its loading or when its installing windows update before shutdown. I use Acronis for backups and it starts the backup but says 'error' after a few minutes. It also keeps 'windows explorer has a problem and will close'. It seems there is some problems tranferring the data to and from my hard drives (I have tried 3 now). Also there is a graphics problem, my windows score for the GPU is 2.0 when before on my Asus board it was 7.00. 3D games crash after a minute or so and I cannot run 3D mark. I am tearing my hair out to resolve these issues and am not sure where to go now as I have updated the BIOS.
Can anyone suggest what could be wrong?

Thanks

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

Firstly how did you update the BIOS, did you use QFlash or @BIOS?

Secondly which BIOS version are you now running?

Next what revision is your motherboard?

[absic]

Apart from the info that DM has asked for could you also confirm your CPU as there isn't an Athlon ii X4 955 did you mean a Phenom ii.

Also what make and type of Hard drive are you trying to use? If it's an "Energy Saving" or "Green" HDD's it could be causing the problem.

Are you running in Native IDE Mode or AHCI on the SATA controller?

[ube_astard]

Thanks for replying and the welcome and my opologies for not closely following the guidelines in 'Please read this BEFORE starting a new thread', I read it after I posted.
I firstly updated using @Bios the when I didnt get resolved I tried Qflash. I have tried the BIOS dated 18/10/10 from Gigabyte downloads using the rev 1.4 which is my board. My CPU is correctly a Phenom. I did have a Maxtor EIDE drive connected and I have two Hitachi SATA drives and have now disconnected the Maxtor and am trying to install onto the SATA.

I forgot to say that when I tried my last install from the Windows 7 CD, syatem rebooted and the message was
 '...Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause..........
Info: Windows failed to load. A required file is missing or currupt...'

[absic]

Sorry but another quick question.....

What RAM are you using?

[Dark Mantis]

I forgot to say that when I tried my last install from the Windows 7 CD, syatem rebooted and the message was
 '...Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause..........
Info: Windows failed to load. A required file is missing or currupt...'

As you have now disconnected your old boot drive have you now made the partition/drive active on the new boot drive.

[ube_astard]

im using 2 Corsair 1333 ram.
 In regards to making the partition active, doesnt the windows install automatically do that if there are no other active partitions?

Thanks

[ube_astard]

Forgot to say I took the s***e back and am sticking with my Asus.