I recently built a Intel i7 920 system on a GA-EX58-UD4P motherboard, from the word go things where going wrong, the system will randomly shutdown for a second or two then restart as if it lost complete power, doing this multiple times would corrupt my copy of Vista 64bit, I've had to reinstall about 6 times. All components are brand new, after the 6th install of Vista everything seemed to work beautifully and operated under stress for a full day then started with the same random restarting, sudden and complete loss of power all across the system for no apparent reason nor pattern. I then decided to Flash my BIOS to the latest F7 which didn't help. I removed everything and rebuilt with no success, after much frustration the GA-EX58-UD4P finally packed up and won't boot anymore, if I press the power button the board lights up for less than a second and shuts down leaving only a green and yellow light shining under the RAM slot, according to the manual indicating a North Bridge voltage error.
I had high expectation for this system however after fighting to keep stability I can't say I'm very enthusiastic about the i7 anymore. I have been reading about similar problems among other GA-EX58-UD4P users, I will have the board replaced tomorrow however what guarantee do I have the new board won't do the same? As a video editor I need complete stability, can't have my system crash during a 10 hour render.
I'm blaming the motherboard however could a brand new 720W PSU, or 6x DDR3 memory play a role as well?
Why is Gigabyte selling an unreliable board like this? I'm losing my confidence in them.
System Specs:
Intel i7 920
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P Motherboard
6x Transcend JetRam™ 2GB DDR3-1333
Gigabyte® NVIDIA® GeForce GTS250, 1GB (GV-N250ZL-1GI)
GIGABYTE® ODIN 720W Power Supply
3x 500Gb Seagate® Barracuda 7200.11 Series
Coolermaster Cosmo S case
1000VA UPS
I had high expectation for this system however after fighting to keep stability I can't say I'm very enthusiastic about the i7 anymore. I have been reading about similar problems among other GA-EX58-UD4P users, I will have the board replaced tomorrow however what guarantee do I have the new board won't do the same? As a video editor I need complete stability, can't have my system crash during a 10 hour render.
I'm blaming the motherboard however could a brand new 720W PSU, or 6x DDR3 memory play a role as well?
Why is Gigabyte selling an unreliable board like this? I'm losing my confidence in them.
System Specs:
Intel i7 920
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P Motherboard
6x Transcend JetRam™ 2GB DDR3-1333
Gigabyte® NVIDIA® GeForce GTS250, 1GB (GV-N250ZL-1GI)
GIGABYTE® ODIN 720W Power Supply
3x 500Gb Seagate® Barracuda 7200.11 Series
Coolermaster Cosmo S case
1000VA UPS
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