X79 recall

[kpo6969]

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first ive heard,but nice exploit rogue scanner virus after clicking the link

Every link to that site comes up the same. Tech Report, Neowin, ie. I don't trust that site.

[wazza300]

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In my network adapter settings it tells me the lan is on. I Have a green light for the connection at 100 mbps full duplex which is correct, Problem seems to be it doesn't recognize the network. Says connected to unidentified network. after that it has a red x for connection to the internet. Weird.

tried all the other things like letting windows diagnose/fix connection problems ect,tried restarting router or switch if you have them?

[DooRules]

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For sure. when I had my provider on the phone we even set all the connections manually, no go. Any kind of software problem should have gone with the reinstall. W7 diag comes up with unidentified network and that's it. It's like the lan has lost it's own address, but again a fresh install didn't fix it. I'm stymied pretty dam good right now.

[wazza300]

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try a long cmos clear by battery removal and load optimized defaults after you put the battery back in,see if it helps,if not i would email gigabyte and tell them whats happening,and that it wont let you flash to an older bios

[DooRules]

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Will do, many thanks bud.

[DooRules]

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Well the battery seems to have done it. Soon as I booted back up it connected straight away. Still think something must have happened the first time I flashed F7 . Thanks for your help wazza300.

[wazza300]

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Glad you got it going,removing the battery is the best cmos clear imo,sometimes 30mins is enough,sometimes overnight is needed just to be sure its fully cleared

[DooRules]

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Got to be something buggy in this F7 bios. I just boot up at 4.6, did it manually with the new bios, not an old setting. As soon as I boot up no internet, exactly like yesterday. blow away drivers and reinstall, no go. Do a cmos reset and boot up on stock and all is good. I hate this frigging bios, not an issue before it and nothing but grief since the moment I flashed to it.

[wazza300]

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that bios is to restrict you from overclocking until the problems with burning has been resolved? so you will probably see instability and problems with it if trying to overclock

[DooRules]

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Hopefully they get it straightened out soon and release a sensible bios. Not a fan of this one at all.

[Excavator]

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Announcement over here in the US:

Gigabyte Gives Lifetime Warranty to X79 Board Corrective BIOS Users, Isolates Problem

On Tuesday, a major problem associated with Gigabyte's X79-UD3, X79-UD5, and G1.Assassin 2 motherboards came to light after a Gigabyte press-release, where enthusiasts subjecting their boards to voltage-assisted overclocking with stress-testing, ended up with burnt CPU VRM. Till that press-release, the scale of the problem was not known. Gigabyte announced remedies to existing owners, which included either updating their motherboards' BIOS to the latest "F7" version posted on the company website, or sending their boards dead or alive for free replacements.

We're getting to know now that to all those who opt to keep their boards and update their BIOS, Gigabyte is offering a lifetime product warranty, an extension of the limited warranties their products come with. Gigabyte's own version of what went wrong with these motherboards is that it shipped several of its motherboards with bad BIOS firmware that did not have "overclocking limits", which motherboards by other manufacturers did. This claim means that "japan0827", the overclocker from XFastest community who ended up with a burned X79-UD3 that he posted on YouTube, would have been running his setup way off spec, electrically.


Gigabyte fixing problems associated with defective BIOS design in X79 motherboards

[wazza300]

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wow lifetime warranty,thats the best thing about gigabyte,they have great rma/customer service

[Excavator]

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I thought lifetime sounded good too. Five years is what gigabyte.us is saying though.
Still, that's longer than the lifetime of any computer component I've ever owned. I think the oldest thing I have right now is my mouse...it might be getting close to 5 years old.

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