Hello All....Official Gigabyte Support Rep

GIGA-Man · 13 Jun 2011 at 17:08

Hello All,

I just wanted to introduce myself.
I'm from Gigabyte and will be officially supporting users on OcUK forums.

If you have any questions then please feel free to post them and I will try my best to answer them within a reasonable time frame.

GIGA-Man

kae2 · 13 Jun 2011 at 17:09

and a very illegal sig, tut tut.

GIGA-Man · 13 Jun 2011 at 17:11

sig fix coming

chippy08 · 13 Jun 2011 at 17:40

Why didnt gigabyte put vga sockets on some of there z68 boards like the ud4 ud5 and so on ?

neoglow · 13 Jun 2011 at 17:52

Just something I noticed recently from making two builds with Gigabyte motherboards that Ive never seen before in other boards, eg, Asus etc.

On a cold start up, the motherboard shows the CPU and Ram at POST. If I do a normal restart from within Windows XP when it POST's again the CPU and Ram is not shown in the first screen at restart, only the usual Bios version, HDD's etc and then continues to load XP.

Is this normal? I always assusmed EVERY POST was the same no matter what kind of startup/restart so the CPU and Ram would be shown every time.

alex24 · 13 Jun 2011 at 18:04

Hi there, nice to see someone about to help.

Is there any reason why Gigabyte don't seem to have adopted the flashy GUI UEFI BIOS but still have the 2.2+ GB support but with an Award BIOS on top? Are you working on something awesome?! I've seen TouchBIOS, but that seems to be solely OS based.

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against the old fashioned BIOS, it's efficient, but it seems you might be missing a trick and selling point to average users. Or maybe I'm wrong and your boards already have a nice GUI BIOS? I was looking at the 990FX-UD7.

Maybe your LGA2011 boards will have it? Maybe there'll be a BIOS update for Bulldozer boards?

Sorry for all the questions, genuinely interested in the answer, I'm a fan of GB mobos. The new 990FX and Z68 boards look awesome.

Evoss · 13 Jun 2011 at 18:17

Hi, Giga rep

I want my next build to have a Z68 board.

I am very intrested in the UD4, but has no VGA/DVI/HDMI port. Apparently a UD4XP model is due for release with a HDMI port on it. Is this true and when is its release date?

Thanks

gropingmantis · 13 Jun 2011 at 18:45

Do you know when/if we will see a Z68 ITX board from Gigabyte. I MUST know!!!

nuttyprot · 13 Jun 2011 at 19:02

When will we see USB3 become standard on Motherboards not just limited amount of sockets?

gropingmantis · 13 Jun 2011 at 19:02

nuttyprot said:
When will we see USB3 become standard on Motherboards not just limited amount of sockets?

Surely this will be as soon as the chipset supports it natively.

nightmare99 · 13 Jun 2011 at 20:15

On a cold start up, the motherboard shows the CPU and Ram at POST. If I do a normal restart from within Windows XP when it POST's again the CPU and Ram is not shown in the first screen at restart, only the usual Bios version, HDD's etc and then continues to load XP.

That is an award bios thing.

stulid · 13 Jun 2011 at 21:04

chippy08 said:
Why didnt gigabyte put vga sockets on some of there z68 boards like the ud4 ud5 and so on ?

Because they cheapened out and put a pin compatible Z68 chipset onto a P67 PCB, renamed it and charged more money.

Surveyor · 13 Jun 2011 at 21:25

You've all scared him off now.

zobby · 13 Jun 2011 at 21:34

lol. I bet he's in a corner shaking uncontrollably

chippy08 · 13 Jun 2011 at 22:13

stulid said:
Because they cheapened out and put a pin compatible Z68 chipset onto a P67 PCB, renamed it and charged more money.

Silly thing to do and it dont look good for gigabyte going the cheap way.

neoglow · 13 Jun 2011 at 22:17

nightmare99 said:
That is an award bios thing.

Ah thankyou.

alex24 · 13 Jun 2011 at 22:17

I can understand why they would do that. Intel says -'hey look OEMs, we're releasing a different (but very similar) chipset to P67 right after we fixed the dodgy chipsets' and they're expected to say 'OK Intel, we'll go about redesigning a totally new range of motherboards at significant cost to ourselves, and we'll pass that onto the grateful consumers'.

Who even cares about VGA?

This is my opinion. Don't hurt me too much.

Surveyor · 13 Jun 2011 at 22:25

alex24 said:
I can understand why they would do that. Intel says -'hey look OEMs, we're releasing a different (but very similar) chipset to P67 right after we fixed the dodgy chipsets' and they're expected to say 'OK Intel, we'll go about redesigning a totally new range of motherboards at significant cost to ourselves, and we'll pass that onto the grateful consumers'.

Who even cares about VGA?

This is my opinion. Don't hurt me too much.

It's not just VGA.

They don't have any outputs at all to use the onboard GPU.

No VGA, no HDMI, no DVI and no DisplayPort.

The other motherboard manufacturers have managed to put some of these outputs on their motherboards.

Awahwah · 13 Jun 2011 at 22:25

It's stiil pants that GB have'nt released a full GUI UEFI bios, I know we don't spend all that much time in there but when other manufactures are doing it....

And why no touch bios app for P67 / H67 users?

scrlk · 13 Jun 2011 at 22:39

Hi,

Compared to the P67/Z68 UD5/7 boards, why does the equivalent AMD 9xx series board have less USB3 ports?