Man of Honour
Have you tried clearing the bios and resetting everything manually?
GIGABYTE GA-Z77-D3H - Freezing/Unstable Problems
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Soldato
Have you tried running nvidia drivers and not windows ones which are probably very old and not very reliable. Install the nvidia drivers as they will bug fix any issues with new hardware etc. As i have read the thread and notice you seem to want to use the windows drivers which is never a good idea tbh with gfx cards. So try that and let us know.
http://www.nvidia.co.uk/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-uk
http://www.nvidia.co.uk/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-uk
Hey, Yeah It was one of the first things I've installed - however was getting crashes so stripped back everything to Windows WDM drivers to ensure it was not a driver thing.
I had a crash about 2 minutes after windows booted up - just on the desktop browsing some folders - the screen froze and then 30 seconds later the CPU fan increases, indicating load. Then it just sits there. Left for 10 minutes. Had to reboot in the end.
I've just tried setting the PEG in the bios to GEN1 now.
Soldato
Did you retry the official nvidia drivers "after" the ram problem was sorted? Also a reinstall with the ram fixed might be an idea as if you had the ram at dodgy timings etc during a install it might have messed up the install. Another thing is that motherboards should have a load defaults option, did you try that so it changes all the bios to the most compatible settings. Could be worth a try tho tbh i rather adjust the bios if i know the settings for things like ram and hdd etc.
Also did you do a windows update session, maybe there is something there that would help the problem. I know when i installed a new ssd with a fresh install of windows i had freezing issues (not ur motherboard etc) but it did fix with a windows update so u never know.
Also did you do a windows update session, maybe there is something there that would help the problem. I know when i installed a new ssd with a fresh install of windows i had freezing issues (not ur motherboard etc) but it did fix with a windows update so u never know.
Its not software.
I did a fresh install on another hard drive the other night - exactly the same problems. Also my other partition which is running Windows 8 Pro (MSDN) exhibits the exact same problems.
- Random Freezing/Locking up, can only re-create it every time when left idle overnight (All Power saving disabled)
- Nvidia display driver recovering all of the time when the card is in the bottom slot running at x4.
Using the o/b graphics card. The machine appears to be stable. I'm on the lookout for a new Graphics card, however just worried that these problems will still be present - even with another card. Being cynical
I did a fresh install on another hard drive the other night - exactly the same problems. Also my other partition which is running Windows 8 Pro (MSDN) exhibits the exact same problems.
- Random Freezing/Locking up, can only re-create it every time when left idle overnight (All Power saving disabled)
- Nvidia display driver recovering all of the time when the card is in the bottom slot running at x4.
Using the o/b graphics card. The machine appears to be stable. I'm on the lookout for a new Graphics card, however just worried that these problems will still be present - even with another card. Being cynical
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Soldato
Ah ok.
Did you make sure to get that bclk setting to exactly 100 because even a tiny bit over actually effects a few things like gfx mem etc. As i noticed in previous posts it was slightly above 100. The increase "might" be cause of the problem, not 100% sure tho as im still new to the bclk thing. I am building a system with z77-d3h btw so hence im reading up when i can etc and picking up on things.
Btw do you disable the onboard gfx so its just the video card or do you leave the onboard enabled in the bios? Presuming you have the correct drivers for the onboard installed as well as the nvidia drivers (can have both sets on), if your leaving the onboard enabled in the bios. Yeah i know its not a software thing but i just was wondering about this, u never know lol.
But ah well, the onboard should be good enough till you can get a new card, i think it probably would perform quite well considering in games as long as you run on lowest settings. Tho it would have been better if you had a ivy with a hd4000 chip in the cpu instead of the 2500k but ah well.
Did you make sure to get that bclk setting to exactly 100 because even a tiny bit over actually effects a few things like gfx mem etc. As i noticed in previous posts it was slightly above 100. The increase "might" be cause of the problem, not 100% sure tho as im still new to the bclk thing. I am building a system with z77-d3h btw so hence im reading up when i can etc and picking up on things.
Btw do you disable the onboard gfx so its just the video card or do you leave the onboard enabled in the bios? Presuming you have the correct drivers for the onboard installed as well as the nvidia drivers (can have both sets on), if your leaving the onboard enabled in the bios. Yeah i know its not a software thing but i just was wondering about this, u never know lol.
But ah well, the onboard should be good enough till you can get a new card, i think it probably would perform quite well considering in games as long as you run on lowest settings. Tho it would have been better if you had a ivy with a hd4000 chip in the cpu instead of the 2500k but ah well.
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Guys,
Think I've cracked this. Made two changes in the bios and not crashed since a couple of days back.
PEG :- From [AUTO] to [GEN1]
Intel Virtualisation features :- From [Enabled] to [Disabled]
I've left the PC overnight without any issues, playing quite a bit of black mesa and been running 3Dmark over and over, Overclocking the graphics card (Now getting 7434 in Vantage)
Will update thread later in the week. *Fingers crossed
Think I've cracked this. Made two changes in the bios and not crashed since a couple of days back.
PEG :- From [AUTO] to [GEN1]
Intel Virtualisation features :- From [Enabled] to [Disabled]
I've left the PC overnight without any issues, playing quite a bit of black mesa and been running 3Dmark over and over, Overclocking the graphics card (Now getting 7434 in Vantage)
Will update thread later in the week. *Fingers crossed
I'm also having these issues with the Z77-D3H, Intel Core i7-3770K Ivybridge and TeamGroup Elite 16GB (2x8GB) running Arch Linux. I'm running from the o/b graphics at the moment through HDMI out, havent purchased a gfx card yet.
Happens to me at random times, can run under high load for an hour or so and it's all good- ill be browsing the web and all of a sudden it'll hard freeze on me.
I haven't tried adjusting memory settings yet, it's all 100% stock. Will try disabling Intel Virtualisation tonight and report back..
Happens to me at random times, can run under high load for an hour or so and it's all good- ill be browsing the web and all of a sudden it'll hard freeze on me.
I haven't tried adjusting memory settings yet, it's all 100% stock. Will try disabling Intel Virtualisation tonight and report back..
OcUK Staff
I dont use less than 1.9v on my benching rig which gets some serious hammer and all my Sandy and Ivy CPU's are all working fine!!!!
Those guys getting 116 error have you tried Disabling HPET this often works with Nvidia based graphics solutions.
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Sorry to hear your having problems. Mines still stable since my last changes.
I changed...
- BCLK to 100.10 (Worth setting this, seems quite a popular fix on the Giga-forums for this board)
- Memory Timings on Manual (Expert)
- Virtualisation set to disabled
- PEG from AUTO to GEN1 (Although changed my graphics card the other day, bought a second hand 275 from the MM)
Let me know how the changes work out for you. If you want, I can post my revised Motherboard screenshots.
Caporegime
Have any of you guys with issues tried reporting here- http://ggts.gigabyte.com/
Yup, logged two calls with them. They can't seem to replicate the problem their end in my case.
Same mobo same problems, completley random freezes in Win 7 (64-bit). Will try the Intel Virtualisation features :- From [Enabled] to [Disabled] as I've read about that elsewhere, also read that Audio drivers clash in device manager could be a cause.
EDIT: scrap that got bios problems (new thread!)
EDIT: scrap that got bios problems (new thread!)
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Just open this account to thank you man, this works excellent, the first three doesn't make the change, but the last one made it. Four days w/o problems, stable and finally at peace with this card.
No problems mate
An ATI 4770 HD, it has been weird since I put it in this board, It gets very very noisy in the first minute after I turn on the PC, after that the noise is normal, but now It reaches higher temperatures than in the last board (an old K9V). Perhaps is time to change the card and/or put a new fan. But at least by the moment, thanks to your solution my board is not gonna break down again (the first z-77 die after one month of freezes and waiting for a technical, I couldn´t stop it since I work in this PC, by luck the warranty cover me and put me the same, with the same issues).
anyone care to abbreviate, having same problems but hard time knowing which options are actualy being spoken about
Hi,
Just to throw my thoughts in, I was having similar problems when I built my system (random freezes while idle but never under load) and disabling C3/C6 in the bios sorted it out. This can be found in 'Advanced CPU Core Features' which is under 'Advanced Frequency Settings'
I found this fix on the Gigabyte Forums. It is apparently a really common issue with the new Intel boards.
Anyway, hope this is useful to someone!
Just to throw my thoughts in, I was having similar problems when I built my system (random freezes while idle but never under load) and disabling C3/C6 in the bios sorted it out. This can be found in 'Advanced CPU Core Features' which is under 'Advanced Frequency Settings'
I found this fix on the Gigabyte Forums. It is apparently a really common issue with the new Intel boards.
Anyway, hope this is useful to someone!