Official Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H Discussion Thread

The Matrix · 25 Jun 2013 at 23:43

I thought their was a Gigabyte rep that was hanging around on the motherboard forum to answer questions about possible issues etc ? Not seen much of him or her answering questions on this thread

Think the forum name was Giga Man or something like that.

stulid · 25 Jun 2013 at 23:49

The Matrix said:
I thought their was a Gigabyte rep that was hanging around on the motherboard forum to answer questions about possible issues etc ? Not seen much of him or her answering questions on this thread

Think the forum name was Giga Man or something like that.

He was around earlier,

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18522606

List your questions for him, maybe he will see them in this thread?

GIGA-Man · 26 Jun 2013 at 12:12

There seems to be mixed issues people are reporting with this board and we don't have the resources to trouble shoot them here sorry... You can report any issues to our technical team ( http://ggts.gigabyte.com/tech.asp?ClassID=2&Country=U.K.&SourceWeb=B2C) or if you think it is a hardware issue we will test and fix any issues under RMA... ([email protected])

The Matrix · 1 Aug 2013 at 15:44

Got a slight problem, not sure if its a motherboard or power supply issue.

When you switch the power on at the power supply the orange light on the motherboard usually lights up instantly, of late this has been taking anywhere from approx 15 - 50 seconds for the orange light to appear.

I first noticed the issue when the power switch on the pc wouldn't turn the pc on, you would have to press the button quite a few times and it was a lottery if it would switch on. I then noticed that until the orange light on the mobo appeared the pc wouldn't switch on, this has started happening recently.

Ive took all the power cables of the power supply and motherboard and re-seated them just incase their might have been a small short, its still the same.

Any ideas ?

wazza300 · 1 Aug 2013 at 16:20

matrix any way to test with another psu?

done a cmos clear? battery out for 30 minutes? remember cmos clear will reset any bios/oc settings

The Matrix · 1 Aug 2013 at 19:19

Ive no way of testing with another PSU.

Ive cleared the cmos, ive also taken the battery out for 30mins and replaced it with a new one. The issue is still the same.

wazza300 · 1 Aug 2013 at 19:58

The Matrix said:
Ive no way of testing with another PSU.

Ive cleared the cmos, ive also taken the battery out for 30mins and replaced it with a new one. The issue is still the same.

if its not booting up properly try flicking on and off the power switch so that the fans just spin and switch off

do this 3 times and power up,it will then recover the main bios with the backup bios,then once done it should powerup as normal

reflash to latest bios again and see how it goes

could be corrupted main bios

The Matrix · 1 Aug 2013 at 20:54

Tried the above, didn't change anything.

I'm pretty sure this is the PSU, not long after trying what you suggested i started up the PC and a big flash and crackle came from the PSU. Amazingly it booted up, its only going to be a matter of time before it goes bang as these are probably the early warning signs.

Its a Corsair AX850, i'll see if i can RMA it.

wazza300 · 1 Aug 2013 at 21:30

did it flash the main bios with backup?

how old is the psu? it could have degraded slightly with time

Luman · 4 Aug 2013 at 05:17

Have this board about 8 months or more, its still going strong and never had a problem also thanks for keeping this thread updated.

reddev85 · 5 Aug 2013 at 05:16

I still have a few minor issues with mine. For example, on random occasions after being powered off, the board will completely forget my RAM XMP frequency/voltage settings and will default it back to 1333/1.5v. It may have something to do with my low voltage 1.35v RAM, I don't know. I'm on the latest beta.

Also, it doesn't play nice with my USB drives, it seems to be incredibly fussy about which port they are plugged into.

Other than that it's a fantastic board - I still love it. I bought it on launch over a year ago and kept it because I'm skipping the Z87/Haswell generation and sticking with Ivybridge. Not enough of a leap to warrant a new board and CPU, so it will be staying for a long time yet.

On launch the board had quite a few BIOS issues, but over time they have fixed most of them and hopefully they will continue to support it to fix the rest.

wazza300 · 5 Aug 2013 at 11:20

you might be better off manually setting up the ram speed/timings/voltage rather than x.m.p

smithy83 · 5 Aug 2013 at 17:31

i remember buying this motherboard when it came out and was on offer with the free watercooler it seemed like a good idea at the time

like other people have been experiencing problems when using a sandy cpu it can go a while without any problems then for a week just took forever to get out of its boot loop

been using all of the beta bios with some hope that one day it would be fixed but will never happen it seems

the knock on effect of this means i wont be buying a gigabyte motherboard for the foreseeable furture

hughythomas · 5 Aug 2013 at 17:42

Hey man do you have the boot loop too?

I thought it was only me - I'm using a i5 2500k is that the culprit?

Like, I'm sure the computer is stable but sometimes when I do a cold boot it will literally reboot 5 times before finally getting its stuff together and boots OK?

smithy83 · 5 Aug 2013 at 17:47

hughythomas said:
Hey man do you have the boot loop too?

I thought it was only me - I'm using a i5 2500k is that the culprit?

Like, I'm sure the computer is stable but sometimes when I do a cold boot it will literally reboot 5 times before finally getting its stuff together and boots OK?

yep 2500k here as well

exact same issue as you describe

reddev85 · 5 Aug 2013 at 19:44

That's the one issue on the board that I've never experienced.

stulid · 5 Aug 2013 at 19:50

Flashing the backup BIOS with the same version as on the main BIOS I seem to remember reading has helped people.

The Matrix · 7 Aug 2013 at 20:58

I sorted the issue i was having, it was the PSU that finally gave up the ghost, it gave out quite a big flash and a loud crackle on boot up one day, still booted into windows but i turned it straight off to try and prevent any other damage.

I installed a new Seasonic PSU today and with quite a bit of relief everything seems to be fine and normal, you just never know what a faulty PSU could have done until you have powered it up again. Ive re-flashed both bios's with F14 so hopefully it will give it a fresh start.

itchy · 9 Aug 2013 at 00:41

smithy83 said:
i remember buying this motherboard when it came out and was on offer with the free watercooler it seemed like a good idea at the time

like other people have been experiencing problems when using a sandy cpu it can go a while without any problems then for a week just took forever to get out of its boot loop

been using all of the beta bios with some hope that one day it would be fixed but will never happen it seems

the knock on effect of this means i wont be buying a gigabyte motherboard for the foreseeable furture

THIS^^^^^

Not to mention the USB issue !!!

havenrl · 14 Aug 2013 at 00:27

This is weird, im running sandy i2500k on ud3h , and sometimes, from cold, im getting boot loops...... boots up for 5 secs then re starts....

After a couple of times, it goes into bios, and im able to boot.

Then its fine for the rest of the day.

Don't know if its my overclock or not, or stress on the psu.

But I'm happy when the computer is on.

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