**[OFFICIAL]** GIGABYTE Z77X Owners Club/Discussion/Info (All Model's Welcome)

[Cecil]

UD5H...F8 is out.

Been trying to find it, but only able to find F8D.

EDIT: Someone else uploaded it since its not at tweaktown anymore.
http://www.mediafire.com/?3w2p56gwb7y3qbm

[stasio]

Yea,moved to PreviousBeta BIOS, as is again incompatible with Corsair & Logitech keyboards.

[Cecil]

Yea,moved to PreviousBeta BIOS, as is again incompatible with Corsair & Logitech keyboards.

Yeah, just found that out. My K90 stopped working. At least I have a few back ups.

My Logitech Iliuminated works fine btw.

[acebmxer]

Do the ports work for you in Windows?

I have the same issue, but they dont work for me in windows either. Gigabyte told me it was some issue with the VIA chip in Windows 7. The fix is meant to be to install the VIA drivers while having things connected to the Intel ports (next to the Ethernet port). Didn't work for me though and I am now RMAing my board after trying lots and lots of different things to no avail.

All usb ports work in windows. Front panel usb 2.0 ports do not work for wake the system up from sleep. USB 3.0 ports work for waking up from sleep.

[PolRoger]

Why does Gigabyte label vccsa as IMC in BIOS for the UD5? I was under the impression that vccio (vtt) was the voltage that drove the imc on SB and IB? While bumps to vccsa is usually helpful for stabilizing increases to bclk?

[acebmxer]

Why does Gigabyte label vccsa as IMC in BIOS for the UD5? I was under the impression that vccio (vtt) was the voltage that drove the imc on SB and IB? While bumps to vccsa is usually helpful for stabilizing increases to bclk?

its labeled the same way on the ud3h

[ryan92084]

Yea,moved to PreviousBeta BIOS, as is again incompatible with Corsair & Logitech keyboards.

F8 also stuck me with that mildly annoying A0 error code.

[sin0822]

A0 isn't an error code. lol, it is the code you are supposed to see while you are in windows, if you aren't in windows and it hows A0, then most likely your GPU isn't working or you are plugged into the wrong output.

Also showing Ab post code is being in the BIOS.

It is labeled IMC since X79 as the VCCSA helped on X79 for the IMC, so it was in their original UEFI and it stuck.

[stardust8750]

I just got a second UD5 yesterday and noticed something weird. Everything on the 2 boards is the same EXCEPT the memory sockets. The board I received 2 weeks ago had a space between the 2nd and 3rd slots, the board I just got has all 4 slots sandwiched together and both are rev 1.0

Here are the pictures of the two different UD5 boards that I have.

[sin0822]

Perhaps they wanted to get rid of ultra durable 3 written on the board.

[stardust8750]

Its now written under the heat pipe. The thing thats really weird is that they are both rev1.0 boards. It would have made sense if one of them was rev1.1

[PolRoger]

It is labeled IMC since X79 as the VCCSA helped on X79 for the IMC, so it was in their original UEFI and it stuck.

I seem to remember reading that vccsa could help with memory clocking on x79 but I decided to pass on that platform (for now) primarily due to overall $$ costs.

Here are the pictures of the two different UD5 boards that I have.

Have you noticed any difference in how the two boards behave/clock? I see the one with out the gap has purple caps and the one with the gap has blue caps... my sample is like the latter and has the gap between the dimm slots and also has the blue caps... perhaps the earlier manufacturing run?

[chawks2]

Here are the pictures of the two different UD5 boards that I have.

Great representation of the blue vs purple caps.

[stardust8750]

The one with the blue caps was the first one I got. I had a ton of problems with it hard locking, BSOD, and not posting (on cold & warm boots). I had my 3570k at 4.2 with both boards. The one with the purple caps has been rock solid since I swapped the two out.

[stasio]

GA-Z77X-UP7 -32-Phase Power

Gigabyte showed off their new flagship Z77 motherboard, Z77X-UP7 which comes with a supermassive 32-phase power design. It is also one of the first boards on Ultra Durable 5 technology featuring the new International Rectifier IR3550 VRMs. These innovations allow for higher efficiency and a much smaller footprint.. According to a Gigabyte spokeperson, the cost of just having this 32-phase power using IR3550 is equivalent to a low-end motherboard. Other features of this board include Bluetooth 4.0, onboard mSATA slot for mSATA SSDs, 4-way SLI/CrossFireX, Lucid Virtu Universal MVP GPU virtualization, Dual Gigabit LAN and Realtek ALC898 audio.

Read more: http://vr-zone.com/articles/gigabyte...#ixzz1wol6Gcmc

[Eeky NoX]

Hope it won't be too expensive...

[Cecil]

I can get in to Windows, pass memtest, LinX AVX, Prime95, whatever, but still get lock ups after 5-10 seconds in the BIOS.

[PolRoger]

I can get in to Windows, pass memtest, LinX AVX, Prime95, whatever, but still get lock ups after 5-10 seconds in the BIOS.

Does your board have blue caps and the gap between the dimm slots?

My board (blue caps with gap) will randomly hang in BIOS from time to time when pushing overclocks with low voltages or exploring higher memory clocks but it doesn't seem to do it if I have all my settings dialed in and stable. Kind of strange...

[Cecil]

Yes, blue caps and gap between the slots.

[stasio]

New official BIOS is out.

[stardust8750]

Why cant they give us a bios that will work with Corsair keyboards. stability is fine, now please fix the keyboard issue

[caboob]

So I just got the G1 Sniper 3 board (3570K) and I am having trouble with Tri-SLI stability (Gigabyte GTX 670 OC). BF3 and DayZ mod just freeze up after 10 minutes. I made sure that the ATX4P is plugged in and I tried the F5 and F6a BIOS. SLI with 2 cards is just fine and monitoring card temps with PrecisionX. I have an AC unit blowing into the open case so temps go no higher than 40C load.

Suggestions?

[MannerRev]

when flashing with Qflash on my UD5H, do i have to flash 1 bios at a time and use the dual bios switch to get both ones updated? or does the Qflash get both chips?

[caboob]

Only the bios selected gets flashed... and for good reason as i found out playing with beta bioses

[acebmxer]

when flashing with Qflash on my UD5H, do i have to flash 1 bios at a time and use the dual bios switch to get both ones updated? or does the Qflash get both chips?

Only the bios selected gets flashed... and for good reason as i found out playing with beta bioses

Yes correct. You have to flash the one bios then flip the switch and flash the other bios.