Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[DavyBoy]

Hi guys, and thanks so much for the replies..

I have already flashed the BIOS, the mobo came with F4 BIOS installed, so at first I flashed to F6, and now I am on F7...

I also tried F8b, but it caused my system to BSOD as soon as Prime95 started working, so I reverted back to F7 again...

Also, I checked the CPU socket for bent pins, I have done this several times, and there are none whatsoever... As for voltages, I have messed around with the main voltages in the BIOS, increasing them slightly higher than the stock settings to see if it is due to there not being enough voltage being supplied, but I still experienced the exact same problems...

I also set all RAM timings manually, acording to my RAM's spec, and I have tried loosening timings up to no avail... nothing I have tried seems to work at all for me, and it is really starting to drive me up the wall...

The mobo is with the people I bought it from as we speak, but their testing methods are poor, so the instabilities I have been experiencing wont show up with them, and also the board is now recognizing all memory installed once again, which also puzzles me, because it definitely stopped working for me, that was the reason that I decided to return the board!!!

They ran Prime95 for 1 hour, and because it never crashed for them, they are telling me the mobo is fine, but it can't be fine if it isn't stable at stock frequency!!!!

I had to ask them to tell their technicians to try running Prime Blend overnight to see if it does the same thing that it does for me, so now I am just waiting the results of this overnight test to find out whether the board is the cause...

What else could it be if it isn't my mobo, that is what I want to know... I am starting to regret building this system tbh... this is my first Intel system I have build myself, and the experience has been a real nasty one to say the least!!!

It is really frustrating when you read posts about other people with very similar systems to mine running them @ 4+GHz and theirs being completely stable... while I am sitting here struggling like crazy to have a stable system @ stock frequency!!!!

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@jar600, you need to raise your memory multiplier in your BIOS to increase your RAM frequency, and also change those timings that you posted to their correct values to...

@ Sparda, why have you posted me a page out of the mobo manual about RAM configuration??

I have already seen that page, and I tried installing one stick of RAM in DDR3 1 for single channel, and it refused to POST completely, with error "b9" on the LED debug thing on the board... this is why I figured the first DIMM channel was dead...

And I only tried installing all 3 modules in the order mentioned above so that I could see if the board would pickup all three modules, which it did, but it was only running in dual channel...

When I tried running 3 modules in the correct order (all sticks installed in the white slots!) the mobo only seen 2 out of 3 sticks... this was the same with both sets of RAM...

Which slot do you class as DDR3 1??

I class the first white slot as DDR3 1, or at least thats what the mobo manual says...

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Also, yes all modules have been tested with memtest+86 boot disc, 1 set at a time, and also tested each stick indivdually and they are all fine...