**Official Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H Discussion Thread**
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I remember that, theres a huge thread somewhere.
With anything thats new, theres always going to be some niggles as people have hardware thats not been fully tested, they then report the issue and hopefully a BIOS update/software update comes out to rectify the issue.
Gigabyte had a overclocking issue with X79 boards at the beginning, didn't take long for a BIOS to be released to solve it.
Its been a fine motherboard.
No niggles to report, the F6 BIOS was solid (apart from not liking my Keyboard)
Kickass sound from it though
+1 on the sound. I'm using the onboard sound with headphones and I percieve no difference from my old Creative X-fi extreme gamer. It's nice to get rid of the Creative driver bloat and the card from the inside of the machine. I can't vouche for it with external speakers however.
Using F6 at the moment and all is fine. The only niggle I have is that the USB3 header that comes with the board is **** (doesn't fit into my 3.5" bay).
I'm a happy camper.
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I'm using F8a (mainly for the G510 fix) and I get quite a few lock ups. I've checked and I don't seem to have any driver issues but the machine just randomly freezes and the reset button on the mobo doesn't do anything.
Anyone else had any problems like this?
Anyone else had any problems like this?
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Did you install the Creative software or are you just using the Realtek drivers?
Yeh, that USB3 header is rubbish I had to use screws to get it to fit in a screwless case and even then it's not solid.
If you look on the tweaktown forums there are a few folk getting the freezing issue on this board.
http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/48463-gz-z77x-ud5h-random-freezing-shutdowns.html
I have this board and huge problems with my crucial M4 128gb disk which is no longer able to boot into Windows. When I installed the system a GPT/EFI was used for the Windows partition, and it worked for a week, however I had to upgrade the firmware to F5 and since then it only detects the drive as normal SATA not GPT/EFI I even upgraded the firmware to F8a, without any success. I tried already a cmos reset and another SATA3 port, without success. Anybody have any clues. I already opened a support ticket with Gigabyte but waiting to hear back from them. Really annoyed about this, otherwise really great board.
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Is the sound onboard as good as a separate sound card?
Was going to get one but if you say its OK i wont bother
Have 7;1 creative surround speakers with Sub, no optical out/in on speakers though
Lew
Is the sound onboard as good as a separate sound card?
Was going to get one but if you say its OK i wont bother
Have 7;1 creative surround speakers with Sub, no optical out/in on speakers though
Lew
It is as good as a cheaper Creative/ASUS card.
You connect using the analogue 3.5mm jacks on the back.
Ooooo! No, I'm just using the Realtek drivers. Since I always ignore the CD that comes with a mobo and just get the latest drivers from the source, I must have missed that. Do you have a link or will the Creative autoupdater identify the sound chip?
Its on the driver disk, dont think it can be downloaded anywhere as its a paid for piece of software for the board.
Thanks a lot for the tip. I couldn't find a download anywhere (not even the Gigabyte support page). I'll install with some trepidation as I wonder how any updates to it would be distributed; i.e., they are not likely to be by the sounds of it (no pun intended).
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What Controllers?
Hi guys
WHat controllers are on this board?
See here, below:-
http://i48.tinypic.com/3448m8m.jpg
Regards
Lew
Hi guys
WHat controllers are on this board?
See here, below:-
http://i48.tinypic.com/3448m8m.jpg
Regards
Lew
It has two Intel SATAIII ports (white)
Four Intel SATAII ports (Black) the mSATA port shares with one of these and thus is disabled if in use.
Marvell SE9172 chips (two chips) providing three SATAIII ports (Grey) and a eSATA port at the rear.
Four Intel SATAII ports (Black) the mSATA port shares with one of these and thus is disabled if in use.
Marvell SE9172 chips (two chips) providing three SATAIII ports (Grey) and a eSATA port at the rear.
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FAb. Just got home and installed the Creative software off of the provided drivers disk. It installs what looks like Creatives usual suit of stuff (A bit dubious about that. Time will tell if I keep it on.) It comes with auto-updater software, so should be able to keep it current.
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No SSD.
Sammy F3 1tb, UD5H (obviously
) 3570k, 8gb Corsair Vengeance, kuhler 620, 470gtx.It must be something similar to what is happening to people in the link that Chaos posted (thanks for that BTW Chaos
). I've changed the blck as advised by some in that thread but I'd guess it's a bios issue and I'll just have to hope they fix it soon.Still a cracking board so no chance of me changing it.
Actually there are 4 SATA III ports and 5 SATA II ports there is another one at the bottom next to the usb front header connection which is SATA II.
GSATAIII is the same as SATAIII its GSATAIII whats disabled when MSATA is used.
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Actually there are 4 sata III ports and 5 sata II ports there is another one at the bottom next to the usb front header connection which is sata 2.
GsataIII is the same as sataIII its GsataIII whats disabled when mSata is used.
Actually , what I said is 100% correct
I think you should go read the manual
SATAII port5 is disabled when the mSATA is used, SATAII port5 is a Intel port!!!!
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