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***Haswell -E Owners Thread***

ALXAndy said:
Nice one :)

I've bricked a good few boards in the past but usually only when leaving a very high overclock on.

Glad you got it sorted.
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Cheers mate, me to :)

tipes said:
Glad your back up and running Boomstick - weird problem you had there.

Mark
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Yeah, thanks to Wazza I kept googling stuff, found out about this weird Gigabyte HDD error, something to do with IDE conflict. That was what made me unplug all the drives, then it was fine lol.

PC's are great n all, but when they go wrong like that and you literally have to try everything I end up just wanting to throw the PC out of a window :D

I'm scared to turn it off, in case it doesn't come back on :p
 
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Spoke to soon lol, can't get into bios again now. Same issue if I press DEL during boot up I get a black screen. If I press nothing it will boot into Windows and run fine.

So the PC will run but not allow me into the bios, hopefully an update will fix this issue?

**EDIT**

It's def a hard drive thing, turns out the second drive in my PC does not handshake properly with UEFI bios. So that's why it boots into bios when it's unplugged..

Problem is this particular barracuda is a green 1TB platter 3TB Total HDD, getting the right firmware is hard, think I've finally got the right one and it's downloading at a staggering 10kb/s :p

I think my woes will be over once I get this drive flashed up to date :-D
 
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Boomstick777 said:
Spoke to soon lol, can't get into bios again now. Same issue if I press DEL during boot up I get a black screen. If I press nothing it will boot into Windows and run fine.

So the PC will run but not allow me into the bios, hopefully an update will fix this issue?
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Can you access it in Windows using the OEM software?

MSI for example have that Clickbios thing.
 
Only just seen your issues boom,

I strangely had that too:eek::(, it seemed to be an issue with mech drives, my SSD works fine and had no issues booting with it attached.

If fact this issue seems to have killed my HDD now.
 
uksoldierboy said:
Only just seen your issues boom,

I strangely had that too:eek::(, it seemed to be an issue with mech drives, my SSD works fine and had no issues booting with it attached.

If fact this issue seems to have killed my HDD now.
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From scouring the net about the boot issues, found that a lot of people are having boot issues on all X99 motherboards with certain HDD's.

I'm gonna order a pair of 2TB Hybrids to go with my SSD, and put my current ones in other PC's. Hopefully as they are a newer model it should be compatible :confused: I've wanted them drives for a while anyway and they are pretty cheap now.

If that doesn't fix it I guess we just have to wait for Gigabyte to fix it via a bios.

I'm glad that it is this though and not a motherboard hardware fault, be a massive pita to take it all apart and RMA it, I like the board just need this boot issue fixed.
 
its either board bios incompatibility or hdd fw

it will halt if it detects an issue at startup as it scans all your components,memory/gpu/kb ect

any third party sata ports on that board or are they all intel? try third party if you have them
 
wazza300 said:
its either board bios incompatibility or hdd fw

it will halt if it detects an issue at startup as it scans all your components,memory/gpu/kb ect

any third party sata ports on that board or are they all intel? try third party if you have them
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Yeah I've used all the combo's of Sata 6 ports and Sata 10. Same issue, I think it's def a HDD firmware not playing nice with the bios. It all works in Windows fine.

Just hope new drives will be ok :p
 
Put a ticket in with Gigabyte regarding not being able to enter bios with older hard drives connected, could there be a bios fix for this?

Interesting to see if they reply :p

Really liking the motherboard / CPU combo, price VS performance is excellent, if they fix this bios issue it will be sweet. I want to keep this setup.
 
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