Gigabyte GA X58-UD5 Annoyance

Yurihyuga · 1 Dec 2009 at 15:00

Ok I have been running this board for 7 months now and its finally got on my nerves.

I havn't tried the F9E Beta Bios but the board takes forever to get to the windows boot sequence which then takes like 10 seconds with my 300GB Raptor.

Is this normal? if it is I think ill just buy a new board and sell the Gigabyte.

JonJ678 · 1 Dec 2009 at 16:12

I believe the F9E bios is intended to fix long post times. Odd that you haven't tried it.

Time booting windows is independent of motherboard, ten seconds is what you're going to get with a 3.6ghz i7 and a raptor.

Mine takes ages to start to post after I push the on button, doesn't really bother me as it's not turned off often. However I'm still on F7.

Yurihyuga · 1 Dec 2009 at 16:20

reason I tend to stay away from beta bios releases as it usually messes up my overclocks every board I have had. Whatever volts I had set etc never work again as it fails to boot into windows when before I could have had it at 24hrs prime stable + 18 Hours OCCT Stable.

If anyone has actually used the F9 Beta please let me know how it is.

Not to mention another annoyance is how flimsy the sata ports on the mobo are, the plastic around the port cracks.

Think I am just disappointed with the board in general + I am getting friends saying just get the P6T its a cracking board.

JonJ678 · 1 Dec 2009 at 16:32

Write down your settings, revert if you don't like the new bios.
I've not broken any of the ports on my board. I'm fairly clumsy too.

However I see your mind is made up; go and buy the Asus. I look forward to the subsequent thread complaining that Asus have had your board for 6 months after you broke the sata ports.

DavyBoy · 1 Dec 2009 at 17:15

I've been using the F9e BIOS since it first became available, I have yet to find any problems with it, it's been perfectly fine for me.

Regarding the SATA ports on the board, I personally don't find them flimsy at all, and like Jon, I tend to be really clumsy to!!

My SATA cables go through a hole I cut in my mobo tray, and the hole was cut to small, so the cables are really tight once they have been plugged into the board, and I've yet to come across any problems because of this.

The only thing that was frustrating when moving from F7 to F9e, was having to find stable settings for my o/c, but this is to be expected when changing BIOS'es, it's unavoidable really..

Do as Jon suggested, except, instead of writing the settings down, save the profile for the current BIOS to a USB flash drive, then if you find you don't like F9e, revert back to F7 and then load up your previous profile from the usb drive..