Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[rge]

does gigabyte still have the beta bioses up?

All the beta bioses just disappeared from everywhere since this am. Station drivers you can thank for being slow.. still has f4r for UD5, may want to download before it disappears from there as well.

http://www.station-drivers.com/page/...a-ex58-ud5.htm

[freshy]

ive still got f3, f4e, f4k, f4l,f4n,f4r,f4 and f5a for ud5

if ya's cant find em anywhere pm me and i'll email em to ya's

best ones for me so far f4k and f4r

[safan80]

just got F4r thanks. I think I'm going to bed now

freshy: don't delete them I want those lol

[GAR]

official F4 bios now on Gigabyte's page.

http://www.giga-byte.com/Support/Mot...ProductID=2958

[rge]

With F4 i got probs get in windows at 190 bclk, more vcore also no change it.
Maybe it's my 12 Gb dont know, for now i stay with F3 200x21 all enabled, memory 8-8-8-20 T1

You know since you said that, I had to try F4 again. And you are right. F4 works fine on auto settings, rebooted 3x without issue. I need to actually boot up at everything auto before complaining about stock.

I made changes 1 at a time. It is bclk that causes problem. At 170 bclk reboots fine into windows. 180 bclk, will not reboot, have to do a hard restart. Also at 180 cant save bios and get into windows until doing a hard restart. 180 bclk would work providing you are always willing to shut computer completely off everytime you need to reboot, ie only hard reboots. Back to 170 bclk, and reboots without issue, no need to do hard restart. This is similar problem that occurred on my P35 DQ6 that was solved by messing around with pcie volts/clock. Have locked 100, but no help.

Just could not imagine a bios being released where stock did not work, but apparently just any bclk ~180 and above that does not work correctly.

EDIT: the only fix for bclk of 180 and above on F4 final bios seems to be upgrading to F4j bios. I tried altering cpu/pcie clock drive, pcie mhz up and down, pcie volts, all other voltages including vcore/qpi/vtt/mem, and mem and uncore down to r/o mem, but F4 and 180+ bclk just can not get to reboot, hard boot to windows only, and if go to bios then save, have to shutdown pc manually or occasionally do clear cmos to get back.

[ReverendMaynard]

Just played Crysis Warhead for an hour...smooth as butter, but I noticed a flashing led at the left of the chipset(almost under the block).

Anyone know what this little guy is for and what it represent when it's flashing?

[Xello]

Thanks for being the guinea again RGE, let us know if you resolve that issue.

[ReverendMaynard]

Thanks for being the guinea again RGE, let us know if you resolve that issue.

Reverend: checking manual now...

thanks man, mine got tossed

[Xello]

Flashing what colour? Page 26 of manual has info on the NB led's, one is overvoltage the other is temp. Overvoltage has off = normal condition, green = slight, yellow = moderate, and red = high. Temp is off = below 60c, green = 61-80c, red = over 80c.

Doesn't mention that they can be flashing

Interesting to read that for me also, i didn't have a program to give me a NB temp reading, someone recommended Speedfan and said that 'temp 3' was NB, which for me was 61c, but with no light on that can't be my NB temp.

[ReverendMaynard]

Flashing what colour? Page 26 of manual has info on the NB led's, one is overvoltage the other is temp. Overvoltage has off = normal condition, green = slight, yellow = moderate, and red = high. Temp is off = below 60c, green = 61-80c, red = over 80c.

Doesn't mention that they can be flashing

Interesting to read that for me also, i didn't have a program to give me a NB temp reading, someone recommended Speedfan and said that 'temp 3' was NB, which for me was 61c, but with no light on that can't be my NB temp.

green iirc. It stopped maybe 30 seconds after I stopped Crysis so it would lead me to believe it's temperature. I have everest and it shows me idling at 35C MB. Might not be the right temp though. Checking for newer version.

Thanks for checking that out Xello

[ShoNuff]

green iirc. It stopped maybe 30 seconds after I stopped Crysis so it would lead me to believe it's temperature. I have everest and it shows me idling at 35C MB. Might not be the right temp though. Checking for newer version.

Thanks for checking that out Xello

Hey Rev, take a look at your Max NB temps under load. I think it is a new function of the F4 bios(es). I looked in the manual as well and nothing is clearly documented. Nice clocks BTW.

[ReverendMaynard]

Hey Rev, take a look at your Max NB temps under load. I think it is a new function of the F4 bios(es). I looked in the manual as well and nothing is clearly documented. Nice clocks BTW.

Thanks

lol just did that. 55C max running prime blend. I should note that this did not happen with the 8800GT installed, and I've been pounding the absolute out of this rig the last few days after getting the gtx260.

[rge]

http://www.lavalys.com/forum/index.p...05&#entry19805
I think that everest beta version in post 12 will read NB correctly and mobo sensor (different). Speedfan version 4.37 temp 3 on mine corresponds to NB reading on everest in linked version, and both of those NB temps go up in accordance with IR reading on base NB sink, so I think they are reading correctly on mine. prior to putting a fan on mine NB temp loaded 55C, I put spot fan on, now NB max 47C.

I just use spot fans, silent on medium setting and put out lot air, 1 mem and 1 on nb. I tried small nb fan, but didnt do squat for temps, still loaded 54C

[mascaras]

Hi

New oficial/final F4 bios for Extreme/UD5 & DS4 released!!

F4 Bios Oficial (Extreme/UD5 & DS4)


1. Fix S3 resume turbo mode issue
2. Fix DualBIOS recovery issue
3. Improve System Stability

Also new F5a Beta Bios for Extreme/UD5 and other bios for a lot of X58 Giga Models

GA-EX58

GA-EX58-Extreme - F5a
GA-EX58-Extreme - F4
GA-EX58-UD5 - F5a
GA-EX58-UD5 - F4
GA-EX58-UD4P - F4c
GA-EX58-UD4P - F3
GA-EX58-UD4 - F3f
GA-EX58-UD4 - F2
GA-EX58-UD3R - F2
GA-EX58-DS4 - F4


>> http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/giga...st-bios-28441/

regards

[ReverendMaynard]

http://www.lavalys.com/forum/index.p...05&#entry19805
I think that everest beta version in post 12 will read NB correctly and mobo sensor (different). Speedfan version 4.37 temp 3 on mine corresponds to NB reading on everest in linked version, and both of those NB temps go up in accordance with IR reading on base NB sink, so I think they are reading correctly on mine. prior to putting a fan on mine NB temp loaded 55C, I put spot fan on, now NB max 47C.

It is fan time perhaps. Thanks for the link

[yenniedn]

Official F4 BIOS didn't do anything to resolve my S3 resume issue - with or without Turbo on.

All the new F4 did was prevent me from booting at my previous 200x19 settings so I had to go to 190x20 instead for 3.8GHz. Vcore went up from 1.2875v to 1.3v in order to boot.

[rge]

Official F4 BIOS didn't do anything to resolve my S3 resume issue - with or without Turbo on.

All the new F4 did was prevent me from booting at my previous 200x19 settings so I had to go to 190x20 instead for 3.8GHz. Vcore went up from 1.2875v to 1.3v in order to boot.

Well that is 3 people in this thread that tried bios F4, and 3 people that had same bug with high bclk. F5a same issue, hope GB is not going to build all new bioses around this bugged one.

[yenniedn]

Well that is 3 people in this thread that tried bios F4, and 3 people that had same bug with high bclk. F5a same issue, hope GB is not going to build all new bioses around this bugged one.

Official F4 BIOS actually hung a couple of times on POST and I had to reset before even being able to get into the BIOS setup screens. Entered my previous 3.8GHz settings and F10'ed. Vista would not boot up and would BSOD each time. Changed my multiplier and added voltage just to get Vista to boot.

Going to try F5a and see if it's any good . . . if not, then it's back to F4m for me.

[icecold316]

Overclocking guide for Gigabyte X58 for I7 920 to 4 Ghz

http://lakesidepc.com/Core.i7.920.oc....12.12_ENG.pdf (Thanks to Guru3d Member Lahomer for posting it)

[yenniedn]

OK, so F4 didn't solve anything for me so I went to try F5a on my Extreme - now I've got the exact same problem you described in your previous post. Clearing CMOS (which I've done 3x or 4x now) does NOT fix it for me and I simply cannot boot into Windows now. I even went and reflashed my BIOS back to the last good one for me (F4m) and now my computer is completely useless!

Can someone either post a link for F4j or email it to me?

This really, really, really sucks. This board has been a really big headache for me ever since I got it!!!

Holy crap, F4 ?final was the buggiest bios I ever tested, that includes every F4beta and every single ?20+ beta bioses on my old P35 DQ6.

Every time I reboot, blank monitor screen, could not hear windows load either, just freeze on blank screen but with computer running. Each time I rebooted, had to turn off short time (hard restart) +/- clear cmos. I downloaded again, flashed again (thinking bad flash even though no error message), but same thing. Then panicked that my mobo crapped out. But reflashed all way back to F4j, working fine again now. F4 would not even reboot correctly with all stock/auto.

Anyone else tries let me know what happens...but if you get a blank screen with rebooting and cant get out of it, clear cmos works. I am thinking whatever "fix" they did to the dual bios or S3, my computer did not like.

[rge]

http://www.station-drivers.com/page/...x58-extrem.htm
F4j extreme here

As last resort, unplug, take the cmos battery out for few minutes, that has worked for me when clear cmos doesnt. Also make sure right after flashing bios to f4j, you load optimum settings then save before rebooting to clear out all buggy crap from F4/F5a.

[yenniedn]

This is unbelieveable. Absolutely NOTHING will allow my computer to boot again right now.

Clearing CMOS = nope.

Unplugging everything including the CMOS battery = nope.

Flashing to previously working BIOS'es = nope.

Loading optimized defaults = nope.

Loading fail safe settings = nope.

Repairing Windows via the Vista installation DVD = nope.

So I'm having to reformat my RAID O OS partition and do a fresh OS install!!! This is the FOURTH time I've had to do so since I bought this board about a month ago. I've been having so many problems with this board since I upgraded from my Q6600 system that I held off on validating the Vista install until things were stable. Just YESTERDAY I went through the whole call Microsoft and jump through their hoops routine to activate my Vista install. Finished installing ALL of my apps just this afternoon. And now, it's ALL gone and I get to do it all over again.

This is the most problematic (yet most expensive) motherboard I've ever had!

[lowdog]

EDIT; these boards seem to be shaping up as somewhat problematic if nothing more than a simple bios flash is causing so many problems. Never owend a Gigabyte board before but I have a X58-UD5 Extreme and an Asus P6T-Deluxe sitting before me atm and am just waiting for my wb to arrive before trying them both out. By the looks of things if this Gigabyte causes half the problems I'm seeing here it won't last long in my house, shame because I was looking foward to a new experience but a new experience filled with headaches isn't what I had in mind.....time will tell but I now have some reservations about the UD5-EXT after reading all the goings on in this and other threads.

[yenniedn]

EDIT; these boards seem to be shaping up as somewhat problematic if nothing more than a simple bios flash is causing so many problems. Never owend a Gigabyte board before but I have a X58-UD5 Extreme and an Asus P6T-Deluxe sitting before me atm and am just waiting for my wb to arrive before trying them both out. By the looks of things if this Gigabyte causes half the problems I'm seeing here it won't last long in my house, shame because I was looking foward to a new experience but a new experience filled with headaches isn't what I had in mind.....time will tell but I now have some reservations about the UD5-EXT after reading all the goings on in this and other threads.

This is the price you pay for being an early adopter - which I never mind doing. However, I got the 680i and 780i boards when they first came out and they too had their growing pains. The difference was that EVGA was much more proactive, knowledgeable and helpful that Giga Tech Support has been. I've called them four times now and they've yet to ask my once about what my BIOS settings are, what other hardware I use or anything. They just ask me what the problem is - and after I tell them, their only answer is to wait for a new BIOS that "might" fix the problem. Well, neither beta nor "official" BIOS updates have done anything to fix my S3 resume problem. In fact, they've only caused me more problems and set me back.

Anyways, my system is back up after a fresh OS install. In the process of reconfiguring and re-installing everything. I swear, it seems just like the other day I was doing all of this . . . oh wait, it WAS just the other when I did do this!!!

P.S. add BIOS F4j to the list of BIOS'es that does not solve my S3 issue. So (in order) F3, F4m, F4 (official), F5a and F4j don't do anything for S3 resume.

[Zmir]

Hey guys im having trouble overclocking my ud5, and also trouble with ggb's apps!

When i OC my system, 2.6 > 4.0, or even the teeniest amount, 2.66 > 2.7 for example, my com boots up like normal! I can get into bios, the raid shows up fine and all..
but it cant reach my windows loading screen (the one with microsoft Corp, and the loading bar), it just wont get there! What could be the problem? I think its my windows, not my rig right?
Tried following EXACTLY like in the 'how to overclock ur ud5' guide, and still no avail

And im also having the, Easytune6 crash on startup and Energysaver 'your bios does not support bla bla'
Using Vista SP1 64-bit
Hope u guys can shed some light on this! Thanks in adv