X58a-UD7 - rev1 - Marvell driver

[Dark Mantis]

Hi Allan

Your idea does have some legs but I think that maybe this is getting to the point where people might regard the platform as a bit long in the tooth to start rechipping the boards. It dioes stil have plenty of life left in it yet and I suppose the cost would be the deciding factor in any upgrade. Why not try asking runn3R to make enquiries of Gigabyte head office.

I suspect that it might take more than a single chip replacement though.

[Aussie Allan]

 I can imagine the response but you never know........I'll ponder a good email and make the inquiry later.......Congrats on your new mile stone....Awesome!.....AA

[Dark Mantis]

Thanks for the grats Allan but I post roughly 1K a month when it's busy. I think it would certainly be worth an enquiry email if nothing else. The chip design and specsheets are available from Marvell anyway if he wanted to do the mod as  an independant thing.

[ronpeck]

Some advise please , running the above board with F8 bios and noticed in Win 7 my Marvell driver is at 1.0.0.1027 , i see that there is 1.0.0.1051 ( number could be wrong but newer ) , will there be any issues upgrading to this or is there a reason Giga have an old version still up . Need to check first as i have my os hanging from it ! .

Same Board GA-X58A_UD7 built sys 18mths ago.. Been having problems and it looks more and more that the MB and or the BIOS is the cause!!updated to F7 but now more problems ...
DVD keeps disappering  from my opp. sys. (Win7 64bit Ultimate)
Programs that would not install or work  with the orig. BIOS now load and work with F7...
Win7 install disk will not now load and install on this computer (checked disk works on all other Comp)
 Please explain Marvell Chip?? ..
Thinking of a new MB but what one!!! dont want more trouble.
Help please..

[Dark Mantis]

Hi

I would think it is more likely to be either the drive or the cable that is faulty.

[ronpeck]

Hi

I would think it is more likely to be either the drive or the cable that is faulty.

2 different DVD drives and 2 different lots of cables into different SATA points???
and these items worked fine in another computer both before and after..since my last blog I disconected the DVD drive and the A drive and rebooted the pc several times then reattached the cables to the DVD drive only and the OS then found the DVD drive!! Wierd!! ..The Win7 Installation disk will still not install on this computer from a DVD drive it goes up to the point of "Install" then says it cant find a driver for the DVD drive and to put one in via a USB or Floppy but this dosent work either!! everything works on another Computer with a GA- X38T-DQ6.. MB I have spent nearly a week on this problem and it has me foxed!!

[Dark Mantis]

What type of drive is it? A PATA or SATA?

If SATA what is the port set to IDE mode or AHCI mode? If AHCI try changing it to IDE for the optical drive.

Make sure it is on a different controler to the hard drives.