X58A-UD3R (Rev 2.0) - Cold Boot BSODs

[Lyris]

CPU and RAM returned, also found no fault. I'm now about 14 pounds out of pocket for shipping and will be another 20 out for testing and re-delivery. 

So, how are the store finding no faults, yet I am getting continued problems? The only differences between their setup, I imagine, will be the video card and number of hard drives.

Is there some sort of inherent fault with this board that stops it from working with the 4-5 hard drives I have hooked up for video editing purposes?

[Dark Mantis]

Certainly not that I am aware of but just to confirm this I would try with just the boot drive connected  to make sure.  Did the shop say that everything was working fine ?

As a matter of interest what shop was it that has just tested them for you ?

[Lyris]

Thanks for your continued support here.

The shop is Scan Computers in Bolton. They told me they've tested the mobo, CPU and RAM and the entire thing has rebooted 25 times without error.

I'm fairly sure that in one of my many reinstall attempts, I've started the machine with only the boot drive (an SSD) connected. I'm in the habit of disconnecting the drives with all of my important files on them during formats, just in case. I see that the original poster in this thread was also experiencing problems booting from an SSD...

[Lyris]

Supposedly this is a confirmed and known issue with this board? Really? Can anyone shed some insight please? This post mentions RAID, although I wasn't using the disks in a RAID configuration:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/276715-12-x58a-ud3r-raid-bsod-disk-boot-failure

[Dark Mantis]

Well according to that thread Gigabyte has confirmed that it was a hardware issue and accepted that it was their fault. I can't believe that! The first bit might be true but.....

All joking aside it is not something that I have heard about or had any dealings with here on the forum. Or at least knowingly.

Scan computers are very good normally and I would tend to trust what they say. If they are correct though obviously iot is not down to the faulkty motherboard as per the other thread. It might be worth asking GGTS for some clarification of this problem.

Just enter your email address and click on the language of choice.
GGTS   http://ggts.gigabyte.com/

Please expect several days for a reply.

[Lyris]

I'll do that again. Last time I asked for them for support, they told me to search Google. I'll share any responses...

[Dark Mantis]

I don't really think that "search Google" is the response you should get from a technical support staff member.

Hopefully you will get a bit more sensible an answer this time.

[Tinker]

My main crib with board is Marvell & USB 3. Both are turned off & none of their drivers are installed.
From a single drive point of view so far never had a boot problem. Have plugged in IDE, SATA 2 &3
drives. OCZ SSD.3. Use PCIe SATA 3 card. Can plug into SATA 2 Intel or Sata 3 Express with SATA
drives. Most I've used at once is 2. Either SATA & IDE or 2xSATA. Certainly worth starting with single
drive & building up from there. Only alteration in bios at present  is up memory to 1333. Using Win 7
x32 & x64. All updates installed plus SP1.


Regards tinker.

[Dark Mantis]

My main system is based on this chipset, I have the GA-X58A-UD7 board and apart from the Marvell chip which was just a waste of space as far as SATA3 goes the board is terrific. It is very stable , fast and has plenty of options. Personally I wouldn't have bothered with the PATA connections but they are probably usefull to some.

[Lyris]

Hi,

Sorry, We don’t have OCZ Vertex2 SSD test, but I have tested OCZ Verter 3 SSD SATA3 without any problem.

Our system configuration
Motherboard: X58A-UD3R rev 2.0

Bios version: FH3

CPU: Intel I7 970

Memory: Kingmax DDR3 1333 FSB 2 GB (dual channel)

OS: Window 7 64 bits.

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3449#bios

[Tinker]

Sorry to see the report Lyris so nothing solved. Have you tried a standard SATA drive to eliminate if conflict between
your SSD drive. Mine is the Vertex 3. With the SATA drives unless I do a security wipe usually format both drive letters that
Win 7 shows, then use fdisk, wipe MBR, (boot record) then delete both non dos partitions so a single drive again. The
2 drive letters appear if hooked up via USB. I get that silly message from Win 7 when I hook up USB Media drive.

I usually start now by loading basic OS then add SP1. If you start like this & no errors slowly add updates to see if they
are causing problem & work from from there. Should you encounter problems at this stage then there are serious probs 
elsewhere. You can always clone disk afterwards but be careful of some versions of Acronis True Image as it affect USB
2 speed on this board.


Regards tinker.

[Aussie Allan]

  Ive seen it vaguely mentioned to break the link between the Hybrid drive ( I'm assuming a Momentus XT) and the SSD out of the OS.....but no mention that you actually tried it...................reason!

  The momentus XT was shipped till resonantly with (From memory so no quotes please) with firm SD23..........an updated firm SD24 was put out to improve compatibility with some SSDs including Virtex

 Aussie Allan

[Lyris]

Here's what the store told me. I have no reason to doubt the thoroughness of their testing.

Booted and installed windows 7 from the first boot. Ran rebooted for 25 passes with usb drives attached. All drives attached were read. Switched off for 1 hour. Booted into windows and ran prime 95 overnight. No problems found


Installed the RAM and CPU into the previously returned Motherboard. Loaded BIOS defaults and installed Win7 from cold, no issues of any kind. Using a USB Keyboard and Mouse, copied 5GB of data from a USB2 pendrive, no USB issues.


I left the bits connected on a bench overnight, booted from cold 1st thing and it has gone straight into Win7. I don't really know what else to try, it is either some other (customer) component I don't have with me (the cause) or it is hugely intermittant, all I can say is I can't get it to appear.

Unfortunately, I just don't have time for this. My Asus Sabertooth X58 is arriving tomorrow.

[Aussie Allan]

      Thats all good information but you didn't answer the question..........and here's another.........what was the BSOD code?

  Aussie Allan

[Tinker]

It was maspast that had hybrid drive Allan not Lyris Notice they didn't test it
on USB 3 so probably few drivers installed for test !! bsod's in earlier post.

Hope I have that correct.


Regards tinker.