Sudden restarts

[yiso]

Am using Sapphire HD5850 with default stock cooler on it

Temp on MoB are arranging between 30-35c , reaching around 40 while playing some serious games i.e. Crysis2 and COD6

I think something is wrong with my motherboard, I reflashed the BIOS back to the factory BIOS version F5 and it just restarted .. AGAIN after like 2 hours from booting into Windows !!

[absic]

Hi there,

could you post back with your full system specs and also, if possible, what controllers you are using for which devices?

If you are not using a Floppy drive try disabling that in BIOS as this can sometimes cause these kind of problems.

If you have a DVD/CD Drive attached to a SATA port in AHCI Mode, try reconfiguring your system so that it is being controlled in IDE mode as some devices have issues when running in AHCI.

[yiso]

Hello,

AMD PhentomII X4 955 3.2Ghz
MA790FXT-UD5P , currently on F5 version
OCZ Black Edition DDR3 1600Mhz 4GB
OCZ Vertex2 as bootdrive
WD Black 1TB for storage
Tt 750W

I had just disabled the Flobby , Onboard IDE Controller and I restored my SATA mode from AHCI to IDE just to see if it will work fine

How to make the DVD runs as IDE and not SATA ?

Regards,,,

[absic]

I read your basic system specs from your first post but do you have any other HDD's attached to your system?
Are you running a RAID Array?

If you only have the SSD, 1XHDD and DVD/CD drive then I would set the system up like this.

Attach the SSD to  SATA2_0 and the HDD to SATA2_1
Attach the DVD/CD Drive to GSATA2_0

In BIOS set the OnChip SATA Controller to enabled and the OnChip SATA type to AHCI. As no other devices are being attached you can leave the OnChip SATA Port4/5 Type at its default setting.
For the Onboard GSATA-II Ctrl set it to enabled and the GSATA-II Ctrl Mode to IDE. This will make sure your DVD/CD Drive is running in IDE mode.

These settings assume that you have already installed your Operating System in AHCI Mode for the SSD but, if you have installed it in IDE Mode, then you will need to either tweak the registry to allow for AHCI Mode BEFORE you make the changes in BIOS and reconfigure your hardware or do a clean  reinstall of the OS in AHCI mode.

[yiso]

Will follow that and will come back for results

Just for nothing, where can I find the SATA2_0 and SATA2_1 .. I know they are the blue ones but I can see the two text written on the board in front of the sata port but cant really know which one is 0 or which one is 1

[absic]

These are the two SATA Ports I would use for the SSD and HDD (SATA2_0 should be the bottom one)

[yiso]

All done boss 

One thing I noted , on the screen where says ' AHCI Driver inti' the SSD came second after my WD 1TB harddrive .. is that normal ?

Regards,,,

[yiso]

I think I should place the SSD on the top one as port 0 and the hard on the bottom as port 1

[Dark Mantis]

Hi

I think you will find that absic is correct and the bottom one is SATA2_0. It really won't make any difference though anyway. 0 or 1 it will work the same. Often it is just down to the way Gigabyte uses the BIOS numbering system.

[yiso]

For some reason , when I tried to hock up my DVD burner into the JM332 SATA port, the BIOS didnt post .. the Gigabyte picture on the start didn't even move .. anything wrong ?

[absic]

Yes, sounds like something is wrong if you can't get past the POST screen.

First thing to do is test the DVD Drive on another controller. To do this go back into BIOS and change the setting for Onchip SATA Port 4/5 to IDE Then connect the DVD drive to one of the SATA2 ports number 4 or 5. Try to REBOOT and see what happens.

When you flashed the firmware on the SSD did you remove all the other SATA devices?

[yiso]

The BIOS posted after I hocked up the DVD burner into the SATA port 4

no I didnt, I left everything in and I used the OCZ Toolbox Windows Edition and I downloaded the update and it asked for a restart and vooola .. it's up one level!

[absic]

OK, for future reference, if you are updating the Firmware on any device, SSD, HDD, DVD that is connected by SATA it is safer to remove the other devices from the system first as sometimes, the Firmware Flashing Process can affect other SATA devices.

I'm not sure why the system won't fire up with the DVD drive attached to the GSATA Port but this could be something to do with the F8n Beta BIOS. That said, if evertthing settles down now and runs as it should, I wouldn't flash back to the F7 but just keep in mind that you could have an issue when you try to use the GSATA Ports.

[yiso]

I will keep testing my machine for tonight .. if things run fine then I will stay on F5. Only difference I noted in updating to F8n is the very fast Posting process and even a slight improvement in booting the windows. Actual performance inside Windows didn't change really. On and all , I noted a faster start  and shutdowns and faster posting.

Regards,,,

[Dark Mantis]

One thing might be worth just checking is if there is a disk in the drive. Also what is the boot process priority set to.