**Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 OC-Tips-Bios-Discussion Thread**

[Lsdmeasap]

I noticed you guys having a tough time saving your BIOSes. You can make a small 1GB or smaller FAT32 partition at the end of one of your hard drives if you want, then you can save to HDD from the F11 function in the BIOS or from Qflash.

You can also use @BIOS to save with, DO NOT USE TO FLASH WITH PLEASE!! This will save all profiles as well as current settings, so be sure if you share a BIOS and think the user might have issues with your current settings, be sure to tell them to load optimized after the flash before trying one of the saved profiles.



http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/M...lity&FileID=52


@ Fritz

Easytune does have a uninstaller, it would be found in the start menu/gigabyte folder and also located in the installed program folder. Are you still having problems with this?

I have not got any of the new versions to work with UD7, have not tried the last 2 though I don't think. I have only been able to use a old version, which I uploaded for others who had the same issues as me with the newer ones (Freezing on apply).

Here is the version I use for UD7 (B9.1120.1 - (11/20/2009))
http://www.mediafire.com/?idi2vezyhcm
To the users mentioning failing LinX or other programs at Fail Safe, this is expected, you should not use Fail Safe for anything. Troubleshooting mayber, but even then I would suggest not. Use optimized Defaults to start with, then you will still need to set your own Ram and QPI/Vtt settings manually. Do not rely on XMP or Auto to get those correctly, there is no way they could guess what your CPU's IMC needs for any setting, you will need to find that on your own.

@ mbreslin

Are you using the EK FB UD7 block? If so then yes, it may not have any contact at all. I installed mine and found it to be very hot at idle with stock voltages and quickly shot up to over 75+ at stock with voltages manually set for testing. Removed the block and found ZERO Contact. I spoke with EK about it and they said I must have not had it on tight enough, I swear I almost broke it because it was so tight.

Anyway, no luck trying again either. I think something is wrong, like the spacers are just to large or the screws are too long causing them to not be able to fully screw in? Anyway, I swear it was going to break every time I put it on, the screws are WAY to hard to screw in and contact could never be made. I ended up putting on WAY to much paste, so I knew it would make contact, and then it finally did. So you may need to put on a huge excess of paste, that is the only way I could make it contact the chip.

Temps are now great, less than 36C most of the time at idle voltage/speed (Which I do not use), and 40-42C at 4.2Ghz with 1.2-1.24V set (if using 1.14-1.18V temps are 36-38C). I did not like the idea of using a huge amount of paste, but it seemed to be the only option other than trying without the spacers and risk cracking the chip, but it worked out fine in the end.

I think EK really needs to work on this, something is not right I am sure.