Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[lowdog]

GRRRRR, I bought the Gigabyte X58 Ext and an Asus P6T - Dlx, i7 920 and 3 x 2gb Corsair TR3X6G1600C8D.

Asus board runs like a dream, I can shut it down put more ram into it reboot without issues etc etc just like all my previous Asus boards.

The Gigabyte is a NIGHTMARE, first boot up was fine, flashed to the F4m bios without issues, made some bios changes rebooted no problems. Went to install os and realised I didn't have my ide cable connected for cdrw....no issue powered down and turned off the power and pluged in the ide cable, powered on and no post, just a quick fan spin up, few leds flashed then noting. Cleared cmos = nothing.

Hrm....striped the mobo down of everything and left the battery out and the jumper on the cmos pins overnight. Next morning removed the jumper, battery back in, cpu in and 1 stick of ram in + graphics card and it booted up fine, so I think okay, powered down, turned off power, put 2 more sticks of ram in and connected hdd and cd rom, power up and same trip, no post just a quick fan spin, ledf flash briefly and nothing....rince and repeat for 3 days now. Seems like anytime it's shut down it just won't re post.

Any ideas????, remember all components work fine on the P6T-D.

This might be my first and last foray into the realms of Gigabyte.