GA-x79-UD7

[wazza300]

Re: GA-x79-UD7

try swapping the mb batteries,could be a faulty cmos battery thats causing it? seems a very wierd issue,i dont know how much a pain it would be to swap psu's but maybe its worth a try aswell? other than that maybe somethings at fault with the current bios or the mb itself

you can update/flash the bios from q-flash from within the bios itself,if there is anewer bios i would update it

did you test your gtx560 in your other pc to confirm its still working?

[Excavator]

Re: GA-x79-UD7

try swapping the mb batteries,could be a faulty cmos battery thats causing it? seems a very wierd issue,i dont know how much a pain it would be to swap psu's but maybe its worth a try aswell? other than that maybe somethings at fault with the current bios or the mb itself

Like I mentioned before, I have a new PSU coming for another system I am building. I'll test this setup with that PSU when it gets here.
Wouldn't a dead battery just mess with the time and how the bios saves settings?

you can update/flash the bios from q-flash from within the bios itself,if there is anewer bios i would update it

Wouldn't I need a screen for that? I did not think Gigabyte could update BIOS like ASUS (with no cpu or memory installed).

did you test your gtx560 in your other pc to confirm its still working?

OOPS... no I didn't.

[wazza300]

Re: GA-x79-UD7

i thought you got to the bios screen? if you can clear cmos get to bios screen again then you could update bios,and i forgot you mentioned psu was coming,and yeah battery would be for time/ect but why is it crashing when you try to save/exit? dont know if battery has anything to do with that? and its a free test by swapping batteries over?

[Excavator]

Re: GA-x79-UD7

Already bought a replacement. This one is boxed up and headed back as a returned item.
If the replacement makes me wait 5 hours to clear the BIOS like this one has, I'll return that one too. Out of all that's been going on with this build, that is the one thing that irritate me most. Problems are to be expected when buying parts that are this new, I even enjoy figuring them out and don't mind spending a little more money to swap parts (shipping to/from Alaska is not cheap). I really did not enjoy having to wait like that though.

EVGA X79 Classified or FTW is looking good if I have problems with this next UD7.

Thank you very much for your help wazza300!

[wazza300]

Re: GA-x79-UD7

ohh ok,let me and others know how it turns out,i hope it was a faulty mb,you dont want the pain of waiting for cmos removal like that,30seconds to 10mins should be plenty time unless its suffered a really bad crash

[Excavator]

Re: GA-x79-UD7

did you test your gtx560 in your other pc to confirm its still working?

Just an update...
I took all the heatsinks off the video card and ground at least 2mm off the part that was hanging too low. I was a little worried when I put it all back together because I did not clean off/replace the heat sink paste. To check the cards performance, I put it in my wifes Intel i7 950 3.06GHz cpu machine and ran FurMark for 1/2 an hour. Temps never went over 76C so I think it's good now.

Just waiting on the new motherboard now... should be here day after tomorrow.

[Dark Mantis]

Re: GA-x79-UD7

As you say even though it won't boot with no memory installed as long as you have a buzzer/speaker installed it will respond with a beep code error.

[Excavator]

Re: GA-x79-UD7

I'm back with a new GA-X79-UD7.
I'm able to get the RAID set up at least now. Any attempt to get the memory up to it's tested speed of 1866mhz gives me a code 6F and endless re-starts.
Push the clr-cmos button on the back and it's back to stock again.

I got these exact same results with f3, using f4b right now...

[wazza300]

Re: GA-x79-UD7

what qpi/vtt voltage are you using? and what dram voltage? might need more

[Excavator]

Re: GA-x79-UD7

I'd set memory to profile 1, DRAM volt to 1.65 and get the 6F re-starts.

I have not changed much else...

I did hit the OC button on the back once, just to see. That caused the 6F re-starts as well.

[wazza300]

Re: GA-x79-UD7

you need to see how much xmp uses for qpi/vtt voltage,it might not be enough,xmp doesnt always set up your ram correctly,it depends on your chip and ram make/model ect

[Excavator]

Re: GA-x79-UD7

I've been installing a few things today. Windows was actually a pain becuase this board needed a driver to see the RAID0...thought we'd moved away from having to do that. I ended up installing off an 8GB thumbdrive (very fast) because it also wanted a driver for the DVD drive when I plugged it in to an Intel SATA port. Supplied the F6RAID driver from another thumb drive.
That was pretty cool.
Still not able to bump up memory at all. I tried upping some voltages a little but I have not done enough research yet and I'm pretty much just guessing what needs tweaked.

Sure wish there was a good overclock tutorial on this board somewhere. I'd be very happy to get the memory up to it's XMP of 1866MHz and 4.6/4.8GHz out of the cpu.

[Excavator]

Re: GA-x79-UD7

Just starting out slow, with [email protected] and memory@1667MHz 9-9-9-27-1T

It booted several times, copied a DVD, renders some stuff in Photoshop. Seems stable.
Shut the computer off for a couple hours...now it won't load those saved settings. Back to stock everything and not able to bump anything up or it re-boots till the BIOS recovers.

Settings that ran good for a couple hours:
BCLK 1.25
Multiplier 32
CPU Turbo Ratios all set at 37
3d Power:
Phase Control exm Perf
Vcore v Response Turbo
Vcore LLC 60%

CPU v 1.40v
CPU VTT 1.205v
DRAM v 1.65v


So why did these settings work so well and now nothing but stock will load???

[wazza300]

Re: GA-x79-UD7

If x79 is like p67/z68 then it won't like or be stable with qpi/vtt above 1.2v,might just need to wait for bios's to mature as its a very new platform,could be a cold boot issue where its stable once warm but bootloops when cold,try a longer cmos clear and load optimized defaults then re enter your biis settings,it should be more stable then

[Excavator]

Re: GA-x79-UD7

I have tried CPU all the way up to 1.56v and VTT from 1.0 to 1.35... Still no OC or getting Ram up to tested speed.

When the board totally crashes and has to recover from the backup BIOS, it is version F2.
How can I make a more current backup version on the backup BIOS?