Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[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.