GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

[Hooti3]

Re: Gigabyte latest bios

uncore must be 2x mem divider or higher or no boot.

So 13 uncore with 6x mem = OK. When raise mem divider to 8x, uncore must be 16x or higher, I am using 8mem/UC 17 or 18.

And I would try to drop mem volts and qpi/vtt, doubt you need that high.

You guys are legends...boots up fine now with ram @ 1600mhz and multi on x8.

Love your work guys.

Much appreciated :)

[kid41212003]

Re: Gigabyte latest bios

Your uncore needs to be higher like rge said, if that doesn't work, try to set the tRC to 33, and tRFC to 74.

I'm running 2GBx3 1600MHz Corsair at that setting, and this kits default clock is 1333.

[stasio]

Re: Gigabyte latest bios

GA-P55-Previous BetaBIOS

GA-P55-UD6 - F5e
GA-P55-UD6 - F5f
GA-P55-UD6 - F6a
GA-P55-UD6 - F6b
GA-P55-UD6 - F7b
GA-P55-UD6 - F7c
GA-P55-UD6 - F7d
GA-P55-UD6 - F9c
GA-P55-UD6 - F9d
GA-P55-UD6 - F9e
GA-P55-UD6 - F10b
GA-P55-UD6 - F10d
GA-P55-UD6 - F11a
GA-P55-UD6 - F11b
GA-P55-UD6 - F11c
GA-P55-UD6 - F11d

GA-P55-UD6-C - F5c
GA-P55-UD6-C - F5d
GA-P55-UD6-C - F7a
GA-P55-UD6-C - F7c
GA-P55-UD6-C - F9c
GA-P55-UD6-C - F9d
GA-P55-UD6-C - F10a
GA-P55-UD6-C - F10b
GA-P55-UD6-C - F10d
GA-P55-UD6-C - F11b

GA-P55-UD5 - F5i
GA-P55-UD5 - F5j
GA-P55-UD5 - F7b
GA-P55-UD5 - F9b
GA-P55-UD5 - F9d
GA-P55-UD5 - F9e
GA-P55-UD5 - F9f
GA-P55-UD5 - F10b
GA-P55-UD5 - F10e
GA-P55-UD5 - F11b
GA-P55-UD5 - F11c

GA-P55-UD4 - F3k
GA-P55-UD4 - F3l
GA-P55-UD4 - F6b
GA-P55-UD4 - F8c
GA-P55-UD4 - F9a
GA-P55-UD4 - F9d

GA-P55-UD4P - F4p
GA-P55-UD4P - F4r
GA-P55-UD4P - F4t
GA-P55-UD4P - F4v
GA-P55-UD4P - F7a
GA-P55-UD4P - F9c
GA-P55-UD4P - F10a
GA-P55-UD4P - F11a

GA-P55-UD3 - F4j
GA-P55-UD3 - F4l
GA-P55-UD3 - F4o
GA-P55-UD3 - F6a
GA-P55-UD3 - F8c
GA-P55-UD3 - F9a
GA-P55-UD3 - F10a

GA-P55-UD3L - F4b
GA-P55-UD3L - F6c
GA-P55-UD3L - F7a

GA-P55-UD3P - F4h
GA-P55-UD3P - F4i
GA-P55-UD3P - F4p
GA-P55-UD3P - F4q
GA-P55-UD3P - F6b
GA-P55-UD3P - F6c
GA-P55-UD3P - F8c
GA-P55-UD3P - F9a

GA-P55-UD3R - F3e
GA-P55-UD3R - F3f
GA-P55-UD3R - F3m
GA-P55-UD3R - F3n
GA-P55-UD3R - F5a
GA-P55-UD3R - F7a
GA-P55-UD3R - F7d
GA-P55-UD3R - F8a
GA-P55-UD3R - F9a

GA-P55M-UD4 - F4h
GA-P55M-UD4 - F4k
GA-P55M-UD4 - F4l
GA-P55M-UD4 - F7c
GA-P55M-UD4 - F9c
GA-P55M-UD4 - F10a
GA-P55M-UD4 - F12a

GA-P55M-UD2 - F4e
GA-P55M-UD2 - F4g
GA-P55M-UD2 - F4k
GA-P55M-UD2 - F4n
GA-P55M-UD2 - F7c
GA-P55M-UD2 - F9a
GA-P55M-UD2 - F9c
GA-P55M-UD2 - F9f
GA-P55M-UD2 - F11c
GA-P55M-UD2 - F12a

[NCspecV81]

Re: Gigabyte latest bios

I hate this board with a passion, and is by far the WORST board I've ever used. PERIOD. Definitely has turned me away from buying another Gigabyte board ever.

I feel like I've wasted so much money on this, since now I'm either out 2 weeks minimum RMA'ing this thing or out another $300 buying a real board. What is this infinite 88 power recycling BS at stock settings? When it does work, there is a wall harder to bust through than 12ft thick concrete slabs @ 180bclk, unless using slow mode. When using slow mode it might as well be a pentium 3 as the speeds are atrocious!

[lowdog]

Re: Gigabyte latest bios

Oh man talk about problems.

X58 Extreme, i7 920 and 3 x 2gb Corsair 1600MHz.

Board shiped with F2 bios, flashed straight to F4m, rebooted and loaded optimised defaults fine. Powered down and then it wouldn't power back up no matter what I did. DDR Phase Leds always remain lit? Tried the clear cmos button and nothing.

Stripped the board of all components and poped the battery and put a jumper on the cmos pins, left it for an hour and put the system back together and it powered on and posted, all settings stock. Powered down and tried to power on again and same problem, wouldn't power on, just a super quick fan spin up and led flash then nothing. Followed same procedure as above then it posted again. Powered down and again it wouldn't power back up??????

Wen't through the above over a dozen times then became tired of it all and just left the system there with the power disconnected.....tried powering up again half an hour later and it powered up and posted. So I tried adjusting a few settings and rebooted then had the wonderfull 88 code and the infinite reboot power cycle.....OMG. Powered down and disconnected power cord, left it for an hour and it powered up

Tried changing a few settings then tried installing windows and no matter what I tried with raid it wouldn't let me enter the Intel raid utility no matter how much I mashed the Ctrl-I keys......okay, I'll try ACHI mode. At the instal drivers screen when installing Vista it wanted the Intel driver so I put the Gigabyte cd into the drive, directed it to the apropriate driver and it wouldn't accept it FFS.

Powered down again and it wouldn't power up again....am I surprised, of course not . Left it for half an hour and powered up and during post I get the message bios has become corrupted because of a failed overclock and bios is being backed up from the dual bios chip Man am I getting over it by now.

Anyway this board I have seems completely stuffed and this is my first foray into the realms of Gigabyte and it's not a promising start. Bios flashing seems dodgy and the bios itsels seems flakey. Unlike the Awadflash dos program that Asus uses where you can set parameters during flashing Gigabyte has noting similar. Whenever I flashed an Asus board I always used to flash the bootblock yet there is no option with the Gigabyte, even the Flash789 program under dos is so convoluted I couldn't even get it to work at all.

Any tips???? or should I just rma this piece of junk?

[stasio]

Re: Gigabyte latest bios

Oh man talk about problems.
Any tips???? or should I just rma this piece of junk?

On the end:
User error-link
Incompatabillity with Thermalright Toughpower 1200W psu.

[Lars_J]

Re: Gigabyte latest bios

If ctrl-I aint working try setting native Keyboard and Mouse USB support on if your able to get into the bios. Did the trick for me :-)

[lowdog]

Re: Gigabyte latest bios

On the end:
User error-link
Incompatabillity with Thermalright Toughpower 1200W psu.

I'd hardly call a hardware incompatability "user error".


It's nothing to do with me that the Gigabyte board has an issue with the Toughpower 1200W PSU whereas all my other mobos work fine with it.

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: Gigabyte latest bios

Well now you have been told what the issue may be, the PSU. Have you tested another yet?

[lowdog]

Re: Gigabyte latest bios

Well now you have been told what the issue may be, the PSU. Have you tested another yet?

Yes I now know what the issue is because I figured it out after a couple of days of going over everything. I did have a Silverstone 650W PSU spare that I tested but the board wouldn't even power up when using that (which I found strange).

I just went out and purchased a 1500W Toughpower today as I needed a backup PSU so I will try that tomorrow. If the board works fine with the 1500W PSU then I will know the 1200W and the 650W had issues with the board even though they are fine with other systems. If the board has issues with the 1500W then I'll know this particular board is broblamatic and get it replaced.

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: Gigabyte latest bios

Ya, that sounds like a great assumption! If it does not work with your new PSU then it is very likely to be a faulty board

[SimKill]

[Marco123]

Re: Gigabyte latest bios

Yes I now know what the issue is because I figured it out after a couple of days of going over everything. I did have a Silverstone 650W PSU spare that I tested but the board wouldn't even power up when using that (which I found strange).

I just went out and purchased a 1500W Toughpower today as I needed a backup PSU so I will try that tomorrow. If the board works fine with the 1500W PSU then I will know the 1200W and the 650W had issues with the board even though they are fine with other systems. If the board has issues with the 1500W then I'll know this particular board is broblamatic and get it replaced.

I can confirm for you that the TT 1500W Toughpower runs fine with the UD5, i have it running from the beginning here no probs :D

[lowdog]

Re: Gigabyte latest bios

I can confirm for you that the TT 1500W Toughpower runs fine with the UD5, i have it running from the beginning here no probs :D

Just tried my TT 1500W with my X58 Extreme and the board now is powering on as it should. Problem solved, there was and issue with my previous PSU.

[C3D76]

Re: Gigabyte latest bios

Just tried my TT 1500W with my X58 Extreme and the board now is powering on as it should. Problem solved, there was and issue with my previous PSU.

I'm using the TT 1200w with no problems ^^. (knock's on wood..)