Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3 - Windows 7 64 bit freezing/Locking UP

[Dark Mantis]

Have you downloaded and used the latest @BIOS off the website for the update ? Because this will happen otherwise for the first time.

[thewebsiteisdown]

Yep that's how I flashed the main BIOS the first four times or five times. I was messing around with it trying to get it to stop acting funky on me.

[Dark Mantis]

I guessed that but thought I should make sure before going on.

[thewebsiteisdown]

np, again the help is greatly appreciated.

[Dark Mantis]

Well assuming that the BIOS is not bulls***ting you about it being an incompatible version that you are trying to install maybe it is correct but corrupt. Try downloading it from another site (TweakTown or Taiwan) and then run the update with FlashSPI or QFlash. Once you have done that try synchronising the two BIOSes again.

[thewebsiteisdown]

I got it from tweaktown. I've used all three.Honestly, I probably spent a good part of five days working on it or six TBH. I think I've settled for a little while at 4.5GHz now too because it was just acting to dang flaky on me. I think it might be just a piece, or the BIOS needs to be worked over once again by their team one of the two.

I loved my P45-UD3P I was running which I still have by thew way. This one is far from the quality of that one at this point IMO. I was looking for the UD7 and they were already yanked off the shelves.

[Dark Mantis]

Well as far as I know Intel has already started shipping the replacement chips and so hopefully it won't be too much of a hiatus before the boards are back for sale again.

They are working on the BIOSes at the moment.

[yury2808]

I've experienced random locks (pretty fast on heavy prime95 test) until I downed my memory from 1600 to 1333. Everything is just fine after that.

No matter what I've tried, I was unable to run this motherboard with 1600Mhz RAM (KHX1600C9D3K2/8GX = Kingston 2x4 kit, 9-9-9-27)

Manually set timings, tried 1.64 -> 1.7 voltages, T2 etc etc. No luck. But it's rock solid @ 1333.

ps. tried F7E BIOS is well, different dimm sockets to be used - nothing helped.

[Dark Mantis]

Hi


Well the first thing is the memory listed as compatible for this motherboard in the QVL ?

Try running Memtest on it properly like so:

I would suggest that you download and run the latest version of  Memtest86+ to check your RAM first.

Memtest86+        http://www.memtest.org/

Insert one stick of memory in slot 1 and run Memtest on it for at least 10 complete loops/cycles and if there are no errors then swap it over with the next one and continue untill you have checked all  modules.
 
If you have any errors the module is faulty.

If you have any faulty modules you will have to return the whole kit as they are matched.

Post back when you have done that with the results.