***Gigabyte H55/H57 motherboard discussion***

Alistair said:
Hex

I'm setup with the gigabyte motherboard & i3 CPU now & the install went fine. However, In my device manager (Wn 7 x64 ) I have a pci simple communications controller with no drivers. Tried searching for it on the gigabyte motherboard disk but no luck. Do you have that also?
TIA
Alistair
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Have exactly the same m8, no idea what it is, but doesn't seem to effect anything so i've not worried about it!

System performance etc. all seems spot on, so I wouldn't worry! Hopefully the next set of chipset drivers will fix it :)
 
There should be an option in the BIOS to disable it, though it should auto detect it when there is a card plugged in.

From memory I know there is one to choose how much memory it reserves, so their should be one to disable it manually.
 
Azza said:
There should be an option in the BIOS to disable it, though it should auto detect it when there is a card plugged in.

From memory I know there is one to choose how much memory it reserves, so their should be one to disable it manually.
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I'm a bit confused have you any idea what this device actually is ? I set the frame buffer in the BIOS to 128 IIRC I take it that is the shared memory for the IGP ?
 
Azza said:
There should be an option in the BIOS to disable it, though it should auto detect it when there is a card plugged in.

From memory I know there is one to choose how much memory it reserves, so their should be one to disable it manually.
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There should, and I have, but it still allocates it.

There is no 'Disable' option, there is:

Always Enable

and

Enable when no Dedicated PEG Adaptor detected


I have it set to the later, yet my system memory still shows:

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Very very annoying.

I've e-mailed gigabyte, but they've not responded as yet :(
 
Can anyone confirm if either of these boards support undervolting?

It's something that really important for me as eventually the parts will become my media center.
 
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Not been able to get bistreaming working - the main reason I got this setup :(

Seems to only want to play in DD5.1 through the HDMI with WinDVD Pro & Arcsoft Total Media Theatre
 
Azza, any chance you can run resmon on your install and see if it has this 133MB chunk of memory dedicated.

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Alistair said:
I'm a bit confused have you any idea what this device actually is ? I set the frame buffer in the BIOS to 128 IIRC I take it that is the shared memory for the IGP ?
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Sorry that was in reply to HeX's post.

HeX said:
Azza, any chance you can run resmon on your install and see if it has this 133MB chunk of memory dedicated.

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I'm not home until Thursday so can't tell you sorry. But the latter of the options is what mine is set to.

I'm sure mine is recognising the 4GB. If you ain't got it sorted by the time I'm home, I'll post up my BIOS settings and what not.


What graphics card are you using? Does it actually make a difference when you change how much is allocated in the BIOS?
 
Haha, nice work! One issue down :D

Still can't get my 133MB reserved to go away :mad:
 
Gave the F5m BIOS a go.

Steer clear, it's rather unstable, couldn't get 4GHz stable no matter what... whereas it was easy as pie on F4.

F5m adds the option to give the IGP more volts, which will be nice once they make it stable!


Still didn't fix my 133MB issue however :(

Back to F4 now.
 
HeX said:
Gave the F5m BIOS a go.

Steer clear, it's rather unstable, couldn't get 4GHz stable no matter what... whereas it was easy as pie on F4.

F5m adds the option to give the IGP more volts, which will be nice once they make it stable!


Still didn't fix my 133MB issue however :(

Back to F4 now.
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My board would not shut down with the F4 BIOS; I am using the F5m and this seems much better; 4GHz at >1.3v seems it may stable.
 
Azza said:
Mine has got 133mb reserved as well HeX. :(
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I contacted Giga about this, and apparently this is 'normal functionality for the board'...

It was like trying to get blood from a stone to get that limited reply, so I gave up trying to figure out why, and how come no other board i've ever had has stolen a big chunk of my memory...
 
HeX said:
I contacted Giga about this, and apparently this is 'normal functionality for the board'...

It was like trying to get blood from a stone to get that limited reply, so I gave up trying to figure out why, and how come no other board i've ever had has stolen a big chunk of my memory...
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So even if you are not using the on-chip graphics and have installed a seperate graphics card the motherboard is still reserving system ram, surely that can't be considered normal and will get fixed in a future bios release, unless this is common to all H55 boards?
 
I've no idea what its reserving it for, its just rather suspect that its ~128MB + a few MB which is what usually gets Hardware Reserved.

And it just so happens 128MB is the max mem you can allocate to the integrated GPU.

I hope you are right and they do change it with a BIOS update.

I am sure someone on here with the ASUS mobo had the same chunk of memory missing. So it appears to be a H55 thing...
 
It is rather strange. :confused:


Unless for some reason it ain't the integrated graphics but here is nothing it could be.
 
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