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

[XII]

Yo guys,
I have got back my Gigabyte GA-X58-UD-7 (Rev.1). I am happy with it.
ASUS Sabertooth X58 is a piece of junk compared to it.

Congratz on that. UD7 also on water?

[Fritz_the_germ]

No man. Just the cpu and the grafic card.
The north-bridge is warming up at 45°C under load. That's a piece of cake for the nb

[Ice009]

Yo guys,
I have got back my Gigabyte GA-X58-UD-7 (Rev.1). I am happy with it.
ASUS Sabertooth X58 is a piece of junk compared to it.

Yeah, it's a pretty good board. I've currently got my W3520 running at 4.2Ghz 1.248V on my revision 1 board. I don't know if it was the BIOS updates that improved this board that much or my CPU which is from a good batch. Currently using F8m. Not sure if it's worth changing to one of the newer BIOS versions. Would I be missing anything if I stay with F8m?

[Gorki]

LOL Fritz, I'm glad you're back to UD7!
I've flashed F9a bios, and it seams solid for now, I also updated my win7 to SP1 LOL I could start some testing soon. I would like to see how F9d performs on same OC. It's time to remove dust from this thread. Anyone played more with F9 bios series?

[XII]

F9b and F9d are solid in my book.
It`s my main rig, Gulftown, 6 disks, GTX460 and 24Gb hynix 7-8-7-24 1T@1600.

[Ice009]

F9b and F9d are solid in my book.
It`s my main rig, Gulftown, 6 disks, GTX460 and 24Gb hynix 7-8-7-24 1T@1600.

Are they worth upgrading to from F8m?

[Fritz_the_germ]

Yes, they are worth it. Especially the F9d prevents data corruption ends up in a following chckdisk (same guys had this issue).

[XII]

Are they worth upgrading to from F8m?

For clocking, don`t know.
For stability, since one of th last F7`s it`s stable, and running 24/7 without troubles.
For the exotic, look @ Fritz. never had corruption, nor OCZ Revo`s.

[tipes]

Hi all,
Have not posted here for a long while, but I could do with some advice here please.

My UD7 was running fine on bios F7p - so you can tell I have not updated in quite a while.
Anyway decide to update to bios F9a on giga site because I thought I might need the larger than2.2 tera drives capability.
I failed to notice however - (stupid I know) that bios F9a was a beta.Anyways I installed as instructed using @bios(I hate updating bios
from within windows - always dangerous I reckon). It seemed to flash ok, and I set defaults and re booted before attempting to set up my settings -
which is usually the correct way. I am now having serious problems with booting - especially hard boots, it will either sit at C1 and do nothing or it will
go into boot looping without starting or allowing me to get to the point of being able to enter the bios.I usually have to re set bios or take battery out - even down to
1 mem stick etc before i can coax a boot out of the machine.
This is driving me mad and I would like to go back to previous bios, but it will not allow me to from the bios utility(F8) as it claims bios F7p is incorrect size - this seems to
apply to all previous bios I have tried.So what do i do now - i dont really want to chance @bios to go back.Helllpppppp please - any ideas of how I can get round this problem

Mark
Ps I am not overclocking - running standard.

[acebmxer]

Since you have been out of updating the bios for a while; Gigabyte did some changes. If a bios file is is 2048 kb or 2mb size you need to use @bios to flash. If you want to revert back to a older bios that has a smaller file size you need to use @bios to flash back. Q-flash can not handle the file size change from small to large or large to small. If the file size is the same q-flash will work.

I would try clearing cmos. Remove all hardware only leaving 1 stick ram cpu/heatsink and video card. If still no boot pull the cmos batter set the jumper to clear cmos upto 24hrs.

If and when you get system to boot and enter bios I would suggest try re flashing the new bios. Make sure to no keep dmi pool data and make sure load optimized defaults after flashing.

Like I said You will need to be able to boot to windows in order to flash back to your older bios.

[tipes]

Hi acebmxer,
Thanks for the reply.I have tried clearing cmos + the other things u mention - although I have not left battery out for 24 hrs.I think as I have managed to get into windows
now I will try flashing back with @bios - although I don't like the idea much I have to say.Wish me luck.

Mark

[acebmxer]

Hi acebmxer,
Thanks for the reply.I have tried clearing cmos + the other things u mention - although I have not left battery out for 24 hrs.I think as I have managed to get into windows
now I will try flashing back with @bios - although I don't like the idea much I have to say.Wish me luck.

Mark

Yes it is not as safe as flashing with q-flash... When flashing in windows make sure the system is a stable as possible. Make sure the box is checked to clear dmi pool data.

When doing extend clearing of the cmos; you want to make sure you remove the battery along with using the jumper to clear cmos. Its a combo of both that you need to do.

[tipes]

Call me mad if u like, but I couldn't understand why others were saying that bios f9d was ok - so have re flashed with q flash.Will see how I
get on with a cold boot tomorrow - if no go will flash back as discussed using methods above. Thanks much for your help - much obliged.

Mark

Update: Still no go,thought F9d was going to be ok,but it is still struggling to boot and keeps re setting my memory timings to less than standard i.e 1333 am using corsair
GT 2000 ram which is v reliable,but I can't even get it to run at spd settings which it should do.I think I am going to have to bite the bullet here and attempt to
restore my previous stable bios with @bios - not looking forward to this, and hope I don't end up with a brick!!!!

[Nam-uk]

anyone got templet settings for over clocking a 980x say around 4.0ghz on air to start with to give me an idea , just got on of theses cheap so i will be swapping out the 920D0 the bios is on F9A rev.1 Ud7.

need to no safe/max volts ect any tips would be grateful

[NoGuru]

anyone got templet settings for over clocking a 980x say around 4.0ghz on air to start with to give me an idea , just got on of theses cheap so i will be swapping out the 920D0 the bios is on F9A rev.1 Ud7.

need to no safe/max volts ect any tips would be grateful

Just turn up the multi.

[NoGuru]

anyone got templet settings for over clocking a 980x say around 4.0ghz on air to start with to give me an idea , just got on of theses cheap so i will be swapping out the 920D0 the bios is on F9A rev.1 Ud7.

need to no safe/max volts ect any tips would be grateful

Just turn up the multi.

[Nam-uk]

i did mate but i wanted to tweak settings so this is my current settings.

Advanced CPU Features:
CPU Clock Ratio ................................ [21x]
Intel(R) Turbo Boost Tech .................. [Disabled]
CPU Cores Enabled ............................ [All]
CPU Multi Threading .......................... [Enabled]
CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E) ................... [Disabled]
C3/C6/C7 State Support .................... [Disabled]
CPU Thermal Monitor ......................... [Enabled]
CPU EIST Function ............................ [Disabled]
Virtualization Technology ................... [Enabled]
Bi-Directional PROCHOT ..................... [Enabled]


Uncore & QPI Features:
QPI Link Speed .............................. (36)
Uncore Frequency .......................... (17)
Isonchronous Frequency ..................[Enabled]


Standard Clock Control:
Base Clock (BCLK) Control ................ [Enabled]
BCLK Frequency (MHz) .................... 191
PCI Express Frequency (MHz) ........... [100]

C.I.A.2 [Disabled]

Advanced Clock Control:
CPU Clock Drive ..............................[800mV]
PCI Express Clock Drive ................... [900mV]
CPU Clock Skew ............................. [0ps]
IOH Clock Skew ............................. [0ps]


Advanced DRAM Features:
Performance Enhance ...................... [standard]
Extreme Memory Profile (X.M.P) ......... [Disabled]
System Memory Multiplier (SPD) ........ [8]
DRAM Timing Selectable (SPD) .......... [auto]

Channel A + B + C

Channel A Timing Settings:
##Channel A Standard Timing Control##
CAS Latency Time ......................7
tRCD .......................................7
tRP .........................................7
tRAS .......................................23


CPU
Load Line Calibration ................. [Lv1]
CPU Vcore ...............................1.28750
QPI/VTT Voltage 1.150v ............1.35
CPU PLL 1.800v .......................1.800v

MCH/ICH
PCIE 1.500v ...........................auto
QPI PLL 1.100v .......................auto
IOH Core 1.100v ..................... auto
ICH I/O 1.500v .......................auto
ICH Core 1.1v ........................auto

DRAM
DRAM Voltage 1.500v ..............1.66
DRAM Termination 0.750v [AUTO]
Ch-A Data VRef. 0.750v [AUTO]
Ch-B Data VRef. 0.750v [AUTO]
Ch-C Data VRef. 0.750v [AUTO]
Ch-A Address VRef. 0.750v [AUTO]
Ch-B Address VRef. 0.750v [AUTO]
Ch-C Address VRef. 0.750v [AUTO]

then Changed above

CPU Clock Ratio 25x
Uncore Frequency 20x (2x times best settings i read)
BCLK 160
Vcore 1.29375v


this gives me 4.0ghz dead and 800mhz mem 7,7,7,23 which maxes my memory

F9A bios.

[Nam-uk]

since going from 920D0 to the 980x i get hang on boot (like the mb is thinking) everything is working correct in windows just the boot is a tad slow over the 920D0 even though i have a higher clock and memory is maxed, anyone no? also running F9A bios.

[Nam-uk]

I finally made it by @BIOS. It was the first time for me doing it with @BIOS- just a peace of cake.
The F8m runs pretty good so far.
I wonder why Nam-uk hasn't flashed yet
Where are you man ?

been away mate for a bit, on f9 now also the site can get a bit slow due to me being in Uk even though i am on 50mb connection.

I'm with F8m and it works just the same as F8g - great

But I have one little problem, I'm running my vga card in PCIEX16_1 slot and it works in X8... Last time I saw cpu-z motherboard tab was about 14 days ago taking some screenshot and it was running X16... Other software (gpu-z etc) shows the same... If I switch vga card to PCIEX16_2 it works in X16 link but I have PCI sound card so I can't keep it there...

I tried with F8g bios reflash, bios reset, driver reinstall, newer chipset driver and nothing changes... It is not big deal for me but does anyone have some suggestion? Bios default boot the same thing, otherwise I have everything disabled in bios except for usb 2.0

the 8x and 16x pci bandwidth is down to the graphics card and nothing todo with the bios no matter what version of bios you have, the graphites card is just downclocking bandwidth on its own, there is nothing to worry about just run GPU-Z as that will show it in real time, just run a few programs while watching it then just leave system idle.

[Cele303]

I solved the problem with another card, 6970... When I installed drivers it was X16 and after returning 5870 in the mobo it was X16, not X8 anymore... Not a big deal (there was no difference in anything X8 or X16 anyway) but I love to see everything working fine

[tiro_uspsss]

I just bought this mobo!

it won't post

error code is C1 - is this a problem with the RAM?

only thing I have devised is this:

when the RAM is plugged in, the error code displays 'C1' but also *very briefly* flashes - I cannot make out what it says in that very short moment
if however I take all RAM out, the error code displays 'C1' constantly, no flashing what-so-ever

any help/ideas?

[Nam-uk]

swap the mem to different mem slots and clear the Cmos, but C1 is normally a memory incompatibility issue if you can try to update the bios on the board , using F9A Beta off the gig site at the moment. also reseat the Graphics card.

[tiro_uspsss]

swap the mem to different mem slots and clear the Cmos, but C1 is normally a memory incompatibility issue if you can try to update the bios on the board , using F9A Beta off the gig site at the moment. also reseat the Graphics card.

thanks heaps - will try.. if I get it to POST that is
mem incompat. eh?
just downloaded the BIOS you recommended.. dunno how I will flash it till I get POST..
I'll reseat the v.card

cheers

[Nam-uk]

the F9a is a 2mb bios you will need to use windows @Bios or that Flash.exe supplied then after that you can use the normal bios flasher, also remember to back your bios to the backup bios chip afterwards i think it is ALT+f12 on the boot screen (logo).

See if you can borrow some memory, hope you sort this issue.

thanks heaps - will try.. if I get it to POST that is
mem incompat. eh?
just downloaded the BIOS you recommended.. dunno how I will flash it till I get POST..
I'll reseat the v.card

cheers

[Ice009]

the F9a is a 2mb bios you will need to use windows @Bios or that Flash.exe supplied then after that you can use the normal bios flasher, also remember to back your bios to the backup bios chip afterwards i think it is ALT+f12 on the boot screen (logo).

So you just press ALT+f12 on the boot screen and that automatically backs up your current BIOS to your backup BIOS? Do you have to go back to default clocks when doing this?