**[OFFICIAL]** GIGABYTE Z77X Owners Club/Discussion/Info (All Model's Welcome)

[cab]

But my bios was dead, and now its working and it's F4 instead of the old bios that it was.

Maybe i got lucky?

I haven't played with the Z77X-UP5 but I doubt you can "break" or "kill" the BIOS. Most likely your OC settings were unbootable and it just reset itself.

Can you look somewhere in the bios and see what versions are your main/backup ?

[cab]

I mentioned I was on F9d, then today I installed F10a but still BSOD when resuming from S3. I think the mobo is just fine, the problem is Win7 because Linux is running just fine.

BSOD is intelppm.sys... that's Microsoft's processor driver for Intel CPU, lot's of complaints on this one so maybe they'll fix it. But Linux is flawless as of kernel 3.3.6.

I'm running Linux Mint 13 Mate ... for the first time it beats the pants out of Win 7 .

[Vivi]

I haven't played with the Z77X-UP5 but I doubt you can "break" or "kill" the BIOS. Most likely your OC settings were unbootable and it just reset itself.

Can you look somewhere in the bios and see what versions are your main/backup ?

Only way to check is by flipping switch.

Both of mine are f4 now. after locking the old bios that couldn't boot. But its fixed now. Just in case someone has an error like me and need the bios working again.

[vailr]

Correct me if i'm wrong or crazy,

but i "broke" one of the bioses on my UP5-Th while OC'ing (it's my fault i was using an old bios). So then i could not boot up with that bios.
I flipped the switch to the working bios, then went into q-flash. Then while i was in q-flash i flipped the switch to the broken bios, and then chose to flash bios.

Now both bioses are working.

Was there another way to do it?

From what I understand: the bios chip's content is copied into system memory at time of boot-up. The bios chip is not "consulted" again, until the subsequent system re-boot.
So: it's probably a good idea to update both bioses, at least whenever there's a significant difference between the Primary and the backup bios.
My UD5H board shipped from the factory with version F4. Have since updated the Primary to version F10a, and the backup bios is now on version F9h.

[sin0822]

next time vivi press ALT+F10 or F11 and it will flash the backup with the main. that is what you have to do when a BIOS is corrupted. It will allow you to chose which. if you do ALT+F11 then it will ask about a fixture or flip a switch, it will load the main BIOS into the CMOS, then you can flick a switch and it will write to that BIOS. F10 might be easier i think is just main to backup, i have to recheck it.

[stasio]

My new baby arrive home!

[OC Nub]

Im looking at these Giga z77boards. The UD5H is pretty reasonable, any advantage to the more expensive UD/UP5's just for benching?

[ryan92084]

they have thunderbolt /shrug

[AMD_Freak]

My new baby arrive home!

Nice , now mour benchmarks

[stasio]

Hicookie testing i5-3570k on Z77X-UP5 TH, up to 6,9 GHz!!

multi x63



multi x62

[chawks2]

Gents, I am attempting to leverage the mSATA port on this board, but for whatever reason my RunCore SSD is not being found.

STEC 4G - Will not work
Runcore 36G - Will not work
Mushkin Enhanced Atlas Series MKNSSDAT60GB-DX - Works!

[ryan92084]

STEC 4G - Will not work
Runcore 36G - Will not work
Mushkin Enhanced Atlas Series MKNSSDAT60GB-DX - Works!

Crucial M4 msata also works.

[vailr]

Note: GA-Z77X-UD5H beta bios F9o: disables (changes to an "unknown device") the VIA USB 3.0 controller in Windows 7 64-bit.

[C-N]

Note: GA-Z77X-UD5H beta bios F9o: disables (changes to an "unknown device") the VIA USB 3.0 controller in Windows 7 64-bit.

I gave it a run yesterday & everything is working fine for me

Edit: sorry ed up the images so removed them....

Edit 2...

[vailr]

@C-N: isn't that system running 32-bit Windows 7?
64-bit Windows 7 is the problem area, for me.

[C-N]

@C-N: isn't that system running 32-bit Windows 7?
64-bit Windows 7 is the problem area, for me.

No the first images I uploaded & removed was XP-32 Bit that one is W7-64 Bit

[vailr]

No the first images I uploaded & removed was XP-32 Bit that one is W7-64 Bit

The CPU-Z portion of your image shows as 32-bit.

[sin0822]

he is prob running cpu-z 32 bit, you can run it on windows 7 lol.

BTW here is my new review: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...s&goto=newpost

[C-N]

he is prob running cpu-z 32 bit, you can run it on windows 7 lol.

Yup its 32 Bit CPU-Z on W7 Ult x64

BTW here is my new review: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...s&goto=newpost

I checked it out first thing this morning mate, awesome detail as always & real nice to see GB are using some awesome spec components. After being disappointed with my 67/68 UD5's poor voltage control I was blown away with my UD5H... its bang on & by the looks of it GB have improved on perfect already.

I did notice ET6 had PCH voltage control yet the BIOS screens don’t show it as adjustable or at least F4 don’t. I like the idea of this & it’s something I missed going from UD5 to UD5H.

[cowie]

I'm not singing many prasies over the ud5h one went down in a month after launch(sitting here still dead) now the one i went and got from the local mc has its first two ram slots 4.2 dead(51 code) was all of the sudden on air wth?
i cant boot at all in those slots only in 1-2 for single channel...still waiting for a bios so i cant use ivy on my p67 ud7's they put up with alot more then these 2 boards did.
not picking up another

[sin0822]

I'm not singing many prasies over the ud5h one went down in a month after launch(sitting here still dead) now the one i went and got from the local mc has its first two ram slots 4.2 dead(51 code) was all of the sudden on air wth?
i cant boot at all in those slots only in 1-2 for single channel...still waiting for a bios so i cant use ivy on my p67 ud7's they put up with alot more then these 2 boards did.
not picking up another

why don't you RMA?

Yup its 32 Bit CPU-Z on W7 Ult x64



I checked it out first thing this morning mate, awesome detail as always & real nice to see GB are using some awesome spec components. After being disappointed with my 67/68 UD5's poor voltage control I was blown away with my UD5H... its bang on & by the looks of it GB have improved on perfect already.

I did notice ET6 had PCH voltage control yet the BIOS screens don’t show it as adjustable or at least F4 don’t. I like the idea of this & it’s something I missed going from UD5 to UD5H.

yea i noticed the PCh voltage control as well, i will see if it works.

[cowie]

why don't you RMA?

I guess i should.
I did not mean to sound like a little batch or nothing but i have not killed a board in a while and two of these in 30 hours of use combined is way off the scale even for me.
Well one is not dead but single channel only.
I looked around socket see if it was me cutting the board or something i could not see anything

[C-N]

yea i noticed the PCh voltage control as well, i will see if it works.

Cool give it a shot.

Have you seen the 32M 5G Pi thread? GB have put up a UP5 Thunderbolt for a prize for fastest 32M GB board.

[sin0822]

oh wow, that is awesome, sounds like a good prize!

it also looks like your gonna win it!

[C-N]

oh wow, that is awesome, sounds like a good prize!

it also looks like your gonna win it!

He he todays run of 32M Top Trumps will cast the vote but fingers crossed ay.

Serious good prize though.