http://forums.tweaktown.com/ GIGABYTE needs no introduction but they are here to provide free technical support for their motherboards, graphics cards and other products! en Wed, 22 May 2013 05:43:26 GMT vBulletin 60 http://forums.tweaktown.com/images/misc/rss.png http://forums.tweaktown.com/ http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52859-gigabyte-z77x-ud4h-review-everything-you-want-know-about-ud4h-more.html Wed, 22 May 2013 00:57:48 GMT *The GIGABYTE Z77X-UD4H Review. * Image: http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/4332/66186929.jpg (http://img266.imageshack.us/i/66186929.jpg/) The GIGABYTE Z77X-UD4H is a mix between the UD3H and the UD5H. Exactly in between the two, with more features than the UD3H and less than the UD5H, the UD4H... The GIGABYTE Z77X-UD4H Review.

The GIGABYTE Z77X-UD4H is a mix between the UD3H and the UD5H. Exactly in between the two, with more features than the UD3H and less than the UD5H, the UD4H incorporates the latest GIGABYTE technologies at a reasonable price. Buyers of the UD4H will also get some newer features; the eSATA/SATA flexible I/O, new heatsink design, and improved T-Topology memory routing. The best part is that this board the UD3H and the UD5H all have the same overclocking features and their OC DNA seems to be the same.


The Box, Accessories, and Board:

The box isn?t exciting, just very similar to what we have seen since day one. However the marketing on the box says a lot about the quality of this board.



The accessories are very simple, just like the UD3H. We have four SATA6GB/s cables, an SLI bridge, and an I/O shield.



The motherboard?s heatsinks and PCB really match very well. You might even mistake this motherboard for the Z77X-UP4 TH or the Z77X-UP5 TH, however there is no Thunderbolt here. Instead of Thunderbolt you get more connectivity and OC features and get to save some money at the same time if you compare it to the Z77X-UP4 TH. Five fan headers are placed around the board, however you only get control over two of them, the others run at various speeds.



Here is the backpanel:
1. 6x USB 3.0
2. PS/2 Keyboard & Mouse
3. D-SUB, DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort
4. S/PDIF Digital
5. 2x eSATA6GB/s
6. 1GBit RJ-45 LAN
7. 7.1 Audio Outputs



Here we have the top half of the motherboard. The VRM is a 8+2+1 (CPU+iGPU+VTT/IMC) the DRAM has its own 2 phase VRM. The socket area is simple to insulate, everything is pretty spaced out. The OC features are in great locations, there is no POST code behind the 24-pin.



The lower half is more interesting. We have 8 SATA ports and the ability to run 3-way CrossFireX.



The two gray ports are SATA6GB/s from Marvell. The four black ports are SATA3GB/s and the two white are SATA6GB/s all from Intel. There is also an extra power connector for extra PCI-E power. The fact that this power connector is an SATA power connector means that it also provides extra 3.3v which is what the PCI-E slots use a lot.



These are some of the OC features.



These are the PCE-E slots. From left to right:
PCI-E 1x > PCI-E 16x (16x)>PCI-E 1x>PCI-E 1x> PCI-E 16x(8x)> PCI>PCI-E 16x(4x)
All the 16x slots are PCI-E 3.0 except the last 16x (4x) slot which is 2.0.
Here the heatsinks:

And the other side:



Now the naked motherboard is below.


Circuit Analysis:



Here we have the naked motherboard so that we can take a look at some of its features to better understand it.



Here we have the VRM, each phase is made up of two MOSFETs, one high-side and one low-side. It is driven by an IR3564A which is a 4+1 phase PWM. GIGABYTE uses 4 doublers to double 4 PWM phases to 8 phases.



Here we have the MOSFETs. The high-side is a 4921N and low-side is a 4935N both from ON Semiconductor and rated at good specs. The high-side is rated for 58A@38W or 22A@5W which is more likely. These are strong and very good rated MOSFETs, better than the Renesas MOSFETs that are on the UD5H, and the same quality MOSFETs as the UD3H. However the UD3H uses two low-side MOSFETs per phase, but the UD4H has more high-side MOSFETs for more current output. IR3598 are used as doublers and dual drivers.



Here we have the memory VRM, driven by a IR3570 which is a 3+2 phase PWM which also drives the VTT. Here GIGABYTE uses some Renesas MOSFETs, same as the UD5H, in a two phase configuration to supply the vDDQ.



Here we have that IR370A, beautiful digital PWM.



Here we have an interesting group of ICs. We first have a Marvell SE9172 (software RAID) which provides its ports either to the internal SATA ports or external eSATA ports. There are the PCI-E switches, a lot of them and in different varieties. The four NXP switches in a row are PCI-E 3.0 and switch 8x PCI-E 3.0 between the first 16x slot and the second. The fifth PCI-E 3.0 switch is used with the Marvell SATA controller to send the two SATA6G ports either to the back panel (eSATA) or the internal ports (SATA). You could call this port swapping a form of flexible I/O. The two other Pericom PCi-E 2.0 switches are used to switch 4x bandwidth between the 16x (4x) slot and the 1x slots. Then we have 2x 64Mbit BIOS ROMs for 8MB BIOSes.



Here we have a VL800 made by VIA Labs (part of VIA) is a 4-port USB 3.0 controller, not a hub.



Here we have an ALC892, not the best audio codec, but better than the VIA one on the UD3H. The UD5H has far superior audio with its ALC898 and TI audio amplifiers and Creative software package. However if you have your own audio card or aren?t an audiophile then you won?t notice the difference between the UD5H and the UD4H.



A Realtek RTL8111F is the workstation class Realtek NIC, it is decent, better than the UD3H?s Atheros NIC but not as good as the UD5H?s Intel NIC.



A Realtek RTL8111F is the workstation class Realtek NIC, it is decent, better than the UD3H?s Atheros NIC but not as good as the UD5H?s Intel NIC.



Here we have the IT8728F, the Super IO, which actually supports a lot of fan control. However because the pins are shared and GIGABYTE takes advantage of the such like PS/2 among other things, these shared pins are used for some functions instead of fan control.



The iTE8892E is a PCI-E 1x to PCI bridge, it provides two PCI slot outputs, however on the UD4H only 1 PCI output is used.


BIOS:












Overclocking:
First off let?s cover the awesome LLC on these GIGABYTE boards, the UD4H is no exception. I only tested the 3 strongest levels, since I feel no one uses the others:

Just awesome at Turbo.
So I do a few things for every board to test overclocking ability. First is max BCLK on air, then max CPU frequency on air. If I have time then I can do LN2 testing to see max CPU frequency, and if time permits I can also do some memory testing.
First off Air BCLK:



Very nice BCLK for Air.



Easy 5.3ghz, I just need to remember to use the same Antec 920 Khuler to test instead of my air cooler because I get that extra 0.5ghz with it.
This time I had time for LN2 testing, I did a very quick CPUz run:



Not a bad score.
I also did some quick testing with PSC, right now my best PSC is really crappy old Corsair kit, however I was able to do some nice testing:



But 1M was stable, not 32M, I am sure with more tweaking I could do it.


Benchmarks:




























Conclusion:

The Z77X-UD4H is a really great deal when it comes to motherboards under $200. The VRM is hefty enough to handle LN2 overclocks, and more fashionable(in terms of aesthetics) than the UD3H. The overclocking features are wonderful for the everyday overclocker and do prove useful for easy benching. The memory overclocking on this board is pretty good, the only issue being you need to know what timings to set for certain types of memory and you need to mess with the slew rates for certain types of memory. The features of the board are plenty, however not as much as the UD5H. We have 6 USB 3.0 ports in the rear and one internal USB 3.0 header. We also have two extra SATA6G ports which can be used in the front or back.

The motherboard?s performance is pretty good in benchmarks and audio/SATA testing alone. The Audio tests could be better, but it?s an ALC982, so you can?t expect as much as the ALC898 or ALC889. There are a few issues, one of them is the fact that only 2 fan headers can be controlled and the other 3 are set at different levels by default. While it is a new board its UEFI is as mature as that of the UD5H. Prices of $139, $159, and $174 for the UD3H, UD4H, and the UD5H respectively. For $15 more you get more phases, and a lot better I/O. However if you don?t have a need for dual LAN, more SATA, or more USB 3.0 and you don?t care about having an audio upgrade then the UD4H would allow you to put $15 of your budget elsewhere like a faster SSD or overclocked GPU. Overall the Z77X-UD4H was born the middle child, so if you want more than the UD3H but don?t need as much as the UD5H, then the UD4H might be the right board for you. ]]> GIGABYTE sin0822 http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52859-gigabyte-z77x-ud4h-review-everything-you-want-know-about-ud4h-more.html http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52852-memory-ga-z77x-ud5h.html Mon, 20 May 2013 20:32:09 GMT I'm putting together the pieces for a new system. It's been a few years since I did this, so I'm trying to remember everything. One question I had was about memory for the GA-Z77X-UD5H. I'm planning to use a i5 3570K CPU. For memory, I want to put in 16GB and was thinking of DDR3 1600, low latency memory. On the approved memory list, the G.SKILL F3-12800CL7Q-16GBXH kit is listed, but that's not available. Newegg has the F3-12800CL7Q-16GBZM kit in stock, which is a slightly different series. Would I be safe trying this kit, even if it's not on the list?

Thanks. ]]> GIGABYTE ajreynolds http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52852-memory-ga-z77x-ud5h.html http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52843-gigabyte-z77x-up4-th-boot-issue.html Mon, 20 May 2013 02:17:04 GMT Hello guys! Just wanna ask for some help because I'm having problem with my PC right now, when I shut down my PC its very hard to boot it again.. I need to remove the cmos battery, reseat again and and again and again the rams to make it boot but it's not 100% that it would work..

I also tried flashing the bios from the older version to the updated version even the beta bios.I was able to boot my PC using an old kingston memory but I doubt that my crucial memory is bad because it passed the memtest last day..

Here's my system specs

CPU: i5 3570k
MOBO: GIGABYTE Z77X-UP4 TH
GPU: MSI GTX 660Ti Power Edition
COOLER: NZXT x60 Kraken
SSD: Plextor PX-M2P 256GB
HDD: Hitachi 1TB
RAM: Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer DDR3-1866 16GB
PSU: Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 10 550w ]]> GIGABYTE fourpixel http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52843-gigabyte-z77x-up4-th-boot-issue.html http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52840-audio-driver-ga-8i915pm.html Sun, 19 May 2013 19:10:15 GMT I have a Problem...^^ I´m searching for a Audio Driver for a Gigabyte GA-8I915PM ... I tried all Driver softwares and many other drivers from google .. OS: Windows 8 RAM: 1,5 GB Graka: Nvidia GeForce 6200 Audio Card: ? (I don´t know ... it only says thats a High Definition Audio Device) ... I have a Problem...^^ I´m searching for a Audio Driver for a Gigabyte GA-8I915PM ... I tried all Driver softwares and many other drivers from google ..

OS: Windows 8
RAM: 1,5 GB
Graka: Nvidia GeForce 6200

Audio Card: ? (I don´t know ... it only says thats a High Definition Audio Device)

yeah ... thats all :/

If you have a tip please reply :) ]]> GIGABYTE ce90 http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52840-audio-driver-ga-8i915pm.html http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52820-toslink-connection-not-seen-windows.html Sat, 18 May 2013 02:41:16 GMT I've now tried to connect three dacs off the motherboard's Toslink port and none have been recognized by Windows (and Realtek). USB is no problem. Toslink cable end shows lighted red, like signal present, and the same Dacs work with Toslink from my TV. Not sure what I'm missing - driver, bios setting...? Any ideas? Thanks, ]]> GIGABYTE genegold http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52820-toslink-connection-not-seen-windows.html http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52819-strange-issues-z77x-ud5h-3770k.html Sat, 18 May 2013 01:34:06 GMT Hey Tweaktown, First time posting here and im hoping someone had a similar issue or can provide me with information of whats exactly going on. So the issue im having mostly stability, the computer is unstable even on factory defaults, cannot pass prime95 and chrome will always crash. I... Hey Tweaktown,


First time posting here and im hoping someone had a similar issue or can provide me with information of whats exactly going on.


So the issue im having mostly stability, the computer is unstable even on factory defaults, cannot pass prime95 and chrome will always crash. I provided 20 crash reports to chromium and the crash im getting is listed below, i've tried running chrome only on cores 4,5,6,7 and it works fine but when its running on core 0 its unstable again. I cannot even post on this forum without having the Aw, Snap message pop up around ten times.


Things i've tried:
Reflashing Bios x20 [Modded Bios F15, Downgrade to F14, almost everything and i always make sure my backup bios and main bios are synced]
Increasing voltage, stock my ud5h is suggesting 1.120V on auto, i've even tried 1.3V with all factory defaults and im still having the issue.
I've tried using XMP, not using XMP, inputting my ram timings and voltages, letting the board automatically detect it, im seriously running out of options.
Im thinking it could either be the board or CPU but im coming here to tweaktown to try any possible solutions.


Thanks,
Dan


Thread 0 in a renderer process crashed in v8.


Thread 0 *CRASHED* ( EXCEPTION_INT_OVERFLOW @ 0x56dfa956 )


0x56dfa956 [chrome.dll] - lldiv.asm:124] _alldiv
0x574fac8f [chrome.dll] - date.cc:225] v8::internal::DateCache::DaylightSavingsOffsetInMs (__int64)
0x57520649 [chrome.dll] - date.h:133] v8::internal::DateCache::ToUTC(__int64)
0x5752b5ae [chrome.dll] - runtime.cc:7403] v8::internal::Runtime_DateSetValue(v8::internal::A rguments,v8::internal::Isolate *)
0x3e63bb2c
0x000184ef


My current rig:
z77x-ud5h
3770k
g.skill 8gb 1600 mhz (F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL)
ocz 650w power supply
gigabyte 6870 ]]> GIGABYTE likeomghax http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52819-strange-issues-z77x-ud5h-3770k.html http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52816-ga-z77x-ud4h-bios-settings-change-their-own.html Fri, 17 May 2013 20:25:50 GMT Purchased the GA-Z77X-UD4H (rev 1.0) a month ago, along with an Intel i7-3770k, and 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 which was on the approved memory list. The board came with the F2 BIOS which I immediately upgraded to F2h (beta) because it fixed a memory compatibility issue... although I probably... Purchased the GA-Z77X-UD4H (rev 1.0) a month ago, along with an Intel i7-3770k, and 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 which was on the approved memory list. The board came with the F2 BIOS which I immediately upgraded to F2h (beta) because it fixed a memory compatibility issue... although I probably should have waited to see if I had any memory issues first... so this may have been a mistake.

I don't make a lot of changes and there is no overclocking of any sort. The only out of the ordinary changes I made were to use X.M.P. Priority1 setting for the memory, set the ATA Port Information for Ports 1 & 2 to Enable Hot Plug Capability since I have two hot swap drive bays in my tower for backup drives (empty 95% of the time), and setup two drives as a RAID Mirror on the Marvell connectors.

I started with a clean drive and installed Windows 8... had no issues during the installation... and once I'm in Windows, everything works flawlessly. I can use the computer all day and I've gamed online for hours at a time. But every once in a while one or more BIOS settings would change. The ATA Port Information for Hot Plug Capability would revert back to Disabled... the X.M.P. setting would revert back to Disabled... or booting to Windows would result in an error because the Marvell setting reverted back to ACHI so it couldn't recognize the RAID setup.

At first I thought the BIOS settings only changed if I unplugged the power supply... to add another component for example. I changed the CMOS battery for a new one, but when that didn't help I borrowed a friends spare power supply. Everything seemed fine for the past 5 days so a new power supply is on its way, but this morning the Marvell setting changed again, from RAID back to ACHI.

At this point I'm not sure where the problem is... never had this type of situation before. Can't seem to find anything online that relates to this problem, so I figured I would see what I could find out here. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks for reading. ]]> GIGABYTE 65Cobra http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52816-ga-z77x-ud4h-bios-settings-change-their-own.html http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52805-p61a-d3-hd7770-conflict.html Thu, 16 May 2013 10:37:03 GMT Hello,
I'm building a new system and I can't seem to get any signal or activity from the Mobo?

Everything is plugged in properly and all the fans (case, CPU, GPU work) but there is no video signal on teh screen or any beep from the Mobo, I don't see any LED light on it either but the DVD drive opens etc and teher seems to be power from the USB ports. My GFX is also a Gigabyte HD7700OC. nothing is connected when I'm booting up, just power cable and HDMI for the screen. What am I missing?

Also,
Assuming I manage to get the MOBO/GFX working, what format (NTFS, FAT32, etc) should the USB key be if I want to install windows 7 from it - to work with this board.



Thanks,

Configuration:

Intel Core i5 3330
Gigabyte P61A-D3 (rev 2.0)
1GB Gigabyte Radeon HD 7770 OC
8GB (2x4GB) Corsair DDR3 PC3-10666
2TB Seagate ST2000DM001 Barracuda
Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±R,
PSU: Be Quiet 430W ]]> GIGABYTE TB303 http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52805-p61a-d3-hd7770-conflict.html http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52797-z77x-ud3h-win8-uefi-mode-install-csm-will-not-turn-off-bios.html Wed, 15 May 2013 18:59:19 GMT Guys,

As per the title i've done a Win8 x64 UEFI install on my Z77 UD3H. Install and OS working sweet

Few little quirks in the bios options though an wonder if anyone else has the same experience, or whether my F19j beta bios is to blame, or i'm just a noob.

My bios settings are...


- OS Type "Windows 8 WHQL"
- CSM This is the problem setting
- Boot Mode Selection "UEFI only"
- Storage Boot Option Control "UEFI only"
- Other PCI Device ROM Priority "UEFI OpRom"

-Secure Boot "Enabled"

When I try to turn off the CSM by changing to "Disabled", then F10, upon reboot it is always "Enabled" again.

Now although my setup is running fine, I just wanted to turn this off as I believe it will further lessen the boot time.
Is there some reason its always coming back on ?

I have a MSI 7970 lightning, a Xonar DG sound card and a Killer 2100 NIC all connected.
Does one of these things need CSM to be enabled maybe ?

PS:
While i'm here, what setting should I use for secure boot and why ? :) ]]> GIGABYTE SLICKRIC21 http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52797-z77x-ud3h-win8-uefi-mode-install-csm-will-not-turn-off-bios.html http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52793-gigabyte-uefi-boot-options-mbr.html Wed, 15 May 2013 13:30:23 GMT Hi,

I just flashed my board with the latest BIOS which is UEFI. What should I set the following BIOS settings to if I'm using MBR?

- Boot Mode Selection
- Storage Boot Option Control
- Other PCI Device ROM Priority

Should these all be set to 'Legacy Only'? ]]> GIGABYTE Sauntache http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52793-gigabyte-uefi-boot-options-mbr.html http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52786-ge-ep35-ds3p-motherboard-w7-boot-failures-latest-graphics-drivers.html Tue, 14 May 2013 11:37:07 GMT Hi, I've looked extensively for an answer to this without success, and only get stock answers when I have tried vendor technical support.

I have a Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3P (R2.1) motherboard with latest F6 BIOS, a Q6600 processor & 8GB or RAM, and am running Windows 7 Professional x64.

The System had a GV-NX88T512HP (GeForce 8800GT) display card that was becoming rather noisy.

In around November last year, Microsoft rolled out an "Important" update, which was therefore installed without a second thought - this update had the effect of rendering Windows unbootable (would freeze just after the logo, and because my drive at the time was almost full, I was unable to roll-back).

I started a new build, and whenever I installed anything later than the Nvidia R295 driver (e.g. any 3xx.xx Nvidia driver) windows would freeze on boot (but I could get into Safe mode).

I figured this may be some display card issue, so purchased myself a Sapphire HD7850 - the driver installation for this card failed during install (system just froze), and although I did somehow manage to eventually install the drivers, Windows again froze during the boot process (every time).

I eventually gave up and built myself a newer system, but am still trying to get the old one working (it is still a reasonably zippy PC) - I can get it working using the R295 driver, but have purchased a new display card to get around the fan noise problem of the old one.

The new card is a Gigabyte 1G GT610 Silent (GV-N610SL-1G), but it requires a driver version 3xx.xx or later (an R300 or later Nvidia driver), but my motherboard (I am almost certain that this relates to my motherboard as there is nothing else that makes sense) and Windows 7 don't work with any of the latest graphics drivers.

I have tried putting the card into the second slot - no difference. I have also tried removing some of the RAM - again no difference. The system is running with the latest drivers for everything else, and is using a fresh install of W7 (with latest SP and updates).

The card works without a driver, but I don't see this as a stable solution.

The graphics cards have worked in other systems, so I don't believe that there is a hardware problem with the cards, and the system works with the older driver and noisy card - so again no problem there.

Has anyone seen this problem before, and does anyone know how I can move forward?

Thanks ... and sorry for the long post. ]]> GIGABYTE rim http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52786-ge-ep35-ds3p-motherboard-w7-boot-failures-latest-graphics-drivers.html http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52758-new-pcie-card-not-recognized-cold-boot-works-perfect-restarts-why.html Sun, 12 May 2013 03:39:17 GMT Need some help figuring this out. I have a Startech PEXUSB3S400 PCI Express USB 3.0 Card that will not be recognized on cold boots. It is recognized no problem on any restart and works fine until the next cold start. Using the latest driver for the Renesas/NEC uPD720202 chip. MB has the latest FH... Need some help figuring this out. I have a Startech PEXUSB3S400 PCI Express USB 3.0 Card that will not be recognized on cold boots. It is recognized no problem on any restart and works fine until the next cold start. Using the latest driver for the Renesas/NEC uPD720202 chip. MB has the latest FH bios and the latest chipset drivers from the Gigabyte site, v9.1.2.1007.

The Card works perfect in a 32 bit XP machine so I am doubting it is defective. I am getting really tired of having to restart every time I turn the machine on. Anyone have an idea where to start looking for the problem?

Thanks in advance.


Win7 64, I7 960 Bloomfield 3.2GHZ, GA-X58A-UD3R rev2, 12gb (3x4gb) triple channel kit of Corsair Vengeance Ram 1600mhz, Gigabyte GTX 550 TI Graphics card, Intel 520 240gb SSD ]]> GIGABYTE wbearr http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52758-new-pcie-card-not-recognized-cold-boot-works-perfect-restarts-why.html http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52748-ga-z68mx-ud2h-b3-no-post-no-video-no-beep-codes.html Sat, 11 May 2013 21:06:53 GMT Just fans spin up. Except the graphics card; its fan does not spin. Swapped out another known good card, and its fans also do not spin up. All other fans do spin up. I had updated the bios, to F13, using QFlash (thanks LSDmeASAP.) And loaded optimized defaults according to LSDmeASAP. Then it... Just fans spin up. Except the graphics card; its fan does not spin. Swapped out another known good card, and its fans also do not spin up. All other fans do spin up. I had updated the bios, to F13, using QFlash (thanks LSDmeASAP.) And loaded optimized defaults according to LSDmeASAP. Then it got stuck on "Loading Operating system." It just hung there. I thought it hung because the usb stick I had used to update the bios was still plugged into the back of the machine. I removed it, and rebooted and now no response other than fans spinning up and the mobo lights are all lit up. Anyway, I took out the memory and it did return beep codes. I also tried unplugging all the HDD and the SSD to see if that helped. (no go.) Of course I removed the graphics card and plugged the monitor into the DVI on the mobo. And I tried reviving the bios by shorting pins 5 and 6 according to LSDmeASAP's thread here http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte...ng-failed.html So now my choices are to Try a known good power supply, RMA board (still under warranty), try harder to revive board's bios. (Or anything else y'all can think of that I should do.)
What do y'all think are the next steps here? I'm temped to just ship it back to Gigabyte for RMA. Any help is very welcome, as always.

EDIT: configuration signature, to fix errors

GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3, rev. 1.0, bios F13
Corsair 650TX PSU
core i5 2500K, OC to 4.0
Coolermaster Hyper 212+
EVGA geforce 9800 gt
Plexter? SSD boot drive
Yamakasi Catleap Q270 LED ]]> GIGABYTE OldGrowthSalmon http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52748-ga-z68mx-ud2h-b3-no-post-no-video-no-beep-codes.html http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52731-ga-z77x-up5-help-bios-settings-windows-8-a.html Fri, 10 May 2013 18:22:55 GMT ]]> I want to do a WINDOWS 8 (64 bit) install with UEFI modeonly. Can someone who has a GA-Z77X-UP5 TH working well with WINDOWS 8 tell me or show me the correct BIOS settings? Should I use BIOS version F13a or F12e?
]]> GIGABYTE Yaho http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52731-ga-z77x-up5-help-bios-settings-windows-8-a.html http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52722-z77x-ud3h-uefi-mode-install-win7-x64-bsods-instability.html Thu, 09 May 2013 22:08:27 GMT Greetings fellow Gigabyte owners. Has anyone here got any experiences, or info on Installing their OS in UEFI mode on this board. I felt like giving it a go today and have had mixed results at best. Using the lastest F19j Beta modded with 12.6.x.xxxx OROM and Sata Drivers, and Win7 X64 HP.... Greetings fellow Gigabyte owners.

Has anyone here got any experiences, or info on Installing their OS in UEFI mode on this board.

I felt like giving it a go today and have had mixed results at best.

Using the lastest F19j Beta modded with 12.6.x.xxxx OROM and Sata Drivers, and Win7 X64 HP.
Copied the install disk to a FAT32 formatted usb.
Secure erased my x2 M4's, then set up the Raid 0 array.
Then went in Bios and set the relevant bios options to "Other os" (as using Win7 x64), "UEFI only" mode for all other settings.
Started install & chose "UEFI: USB Stick" for install, had to load Raid/Sata drivers to see Raid array, installed correctly with GPT (3 partitions at seup inc called MSR).

Windows installed correctly, and boy was it quick to boot :) (skips out the Raid Config utility and just flies through startup)

Problems started with a few mins when I came to install .net framework 4.5, the system froze then BSOD.
Had a few more BSOD's when tweaking settings and options within windows, so decided to do a clean install again.

Did the whole process above identical, only this time Windows didn't install, I got an error after the 'Expanding files' stage about windows not being able to restart properly......

So did it all again....

This time BSOD with error NTFS.sys when trying to load Raid/Sata drivers.

Did it all again....

This time installed windows fine again, but again got BSOD when installing .net Framework 4.5 and various other BSOD's.


Anyone got any clues, hints or thoughts ?

I'd like to make it work as the boot time is just brilliant in this mode. ]]> GIGABYTE SLICKRIC21 http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/52722-z77x-ud3h-uefi-mode-install-win7-x64-bsods-instability.html