Please read! 890fxa-ud5 will not unlock 550 B.E. stable?

[armysgt1]

I just got this new motherboard and every time I try and unlock the two extra cores on my phenom II 550, my computer always freezes when I run Windows experience index. It always freezes on the part where it says tuning windows media decoder. Also my computer will just freeze randomly. This does not ever happen when the cores are not unlocked. This really angers me because this is the same processor I was using unlocked and overclocked to 3.4 in my gigabyte ma785gm-us2h for over a year without any lockups or problems at all. My motherboard firmware is updated to version 6 by the way. I'm just wondering why a $200 board is causing these problems when my $70 board never gave me a problem ever. Please help, maybe i am justy unlocking it wrong I hope. Thank you.

[absic]

Hi there,

I'm not sure if you are doing anything wrong as it does appear that there is a core unlocking problems on the 8 Series motherboards. I know this is a different model but you might like to check out this thread: http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,2409.0.html for very similar issues.

I too have encountered difficulties in trying to unlock cores on my GA-890FXA-UD5 Rev 2.1  with a CPU that unlocks successfully on a different brand of motherboard, so you are not the only one.

At the moment I don't know what advice I can offer but the problem is being looked at and when/if I get an answer I'll post back.

[armysgt1]

Thanks for the heads up. This really sucks that I spent all this money a new motherboard and it's basically decreasing my performance.

[absic]

Hi,

I've just been advised from runn3R the forum moderator, that you should contact Gigabyte USA here: http://www.gigabyte.us/about-gigabyte/contact-us.aspx and ask them to look into this problem further for you as this site is primarily for Gigabyte's users in the UK & Ireland.

[armysgt1]

Ok, thank you very much.

[absic]

If you could let us know how you get on it would be much appreciated as it does seem as if we are banging our heads against a brickwall over this subject!