Unexplainable freezes with Ivybridge

stulid said:
Things to try.

Set the Bclk to 100.1

Switch Windows power options from balance to high performance.
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Have done both of these and it seem to have made no difference. It is still locking up at random points when in games, Skyrim (a lot), Minecraft (fairly regionally) and it has just crashed while playing on BF3 (first time). I have set the base clock to 100.1 in the bios but in CPU-Z it is still reading 100.9 is there anyway of locking it down so it will only be 100.1?
 
I did do, but found that it was the Easy Tune software that gigabyte supplied was messing with it. I uninstalled that and the base clock would stay at 100.1. However it did not solve the problem of crashing, looking around on the net I ended up disabling the C3/6 power saving on the motherboard and that seems to have cured it. But now the motherboard is giving me a 'D3' debug code when I boot up after putting the computer into sleep mode, it otherwise displays 'A0' which according to the manual means 'IDE initialization is started' and I have no idea what that means.
 
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Hi all,

Ive just bought a system from OCuk and having similar problems to the ones described.

First day it arrived there was no issues then every day theres probably 1 or 2 freezes. Today since Ive been back from work its crashed twice in 50 minutes playing Diablo3.

Its very random, sometimes I can be playing for hours with no issues and then sometimes it will happen straight after I restarted. There seems to be no consistency at the minute and nothing in event log apart from my powering it down. The game freezes and the speakers make a noise. Ive tried unistalling and reinstalling drivers and this didnt help.

Just now the computer froze but seem to recovered as the game ran again for a split second but then froze completely.

Sometimes I have seen errors in my task bar saying the drivers have stopped working but started again successfully but havent seen this since I reinstalled the drivers.

My Specs are:

HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785QN2G2M)

Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) -Retail Intel Core

Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050)

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.D 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM

OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply

BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case -BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case -white

Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9)

OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM

Two BitFenix Spectre PRO 120mm White LED - Black BitFenix Spectre PRO 120mm White LED

Any ideas?

Going to call OCUK tomorrow if I get a chance.
 
DynamoDan7 said:
Hi all,

Ive just bought a system from OCuk and having similar problems to the ones described.

First day it arrived there was no issues then every day theres probably 1 or 2 freezes. Today since Ive been back from work its crashed twice in 50 minutes playing Diablo3.

Its very random, sometimes I can be playing for hours with no issues and then sometimes it will happen straight after I restarted. There seems to be no consistency at the minute and nothing in event log apart from my powering it down. The game freezes and the speakers make a noise. Ive tried unistalling and reinstalling drivers and this didnt help.

Just now the computer froze but seem to recovered as the game ran again for a split second but then froze completely.

Sometimes I have seen errors in my task bar saying the drivers have stopped working but started again successfully but havent seen this since I reinstalled the drivers.

My Specs are:

HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785QN2G2M)

Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) -Retail Intel Core

Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050)

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.D 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM

OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply

BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case -BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case -white

Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9)

OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM

Two BitFenix Spectre PRO 120mm White LED - Black BitFenix Spectre PRO 120mm White LED

Any ideas?

Going to call OCUK tomorrow if I get a chance.
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Try doing the things above and see if it works first, they try OcUK. Post how you get on with OcUK as I seem to be getting nowhere fast with Gigabyte's support. Also try these and see if they are of any help.

http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,8885.15.html

http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/48463-gz-z77x-ud5h-random-freezing-shutdowns-7.html

yashiro said:
If you take just the evidence from these posts it suggests that the Gigabyte board is a bit of a lemon.
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I think it an issue with a small number of boards that they will eventually solve but i must admit I don't think I would be able to recommend one to a friend until after the problem is fully resolved.
 
Fire_fly said:
I think it an issue with a small number of boards that they will eventually solve but i must admit I don't think I would be able to recommend one to a friend until after the problem is fully resolved.
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This is not what I want to see when I've got one of these in my basket and was about to pull the trigger this weekend :confused:
 
Fire_fly said:
I have just had an email from Gigabyte telling me to update my bios, hopefully this will sort out the problem.
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I ended up ordering everything bar the motherboard last night, primarily because as I'd gone to order originally the PSU was out of stock, by the time I'd decided that I was going to stick with my original PSU decision and not go for a substitute they'd sold out of the motherboards.:(

Will probably still get one though.

Glad to hear that they've been in touch, will be even better to hear that it's fixed the problem.
 
The guys on here have helped and also Gigabyte have been quite responsive. Changing the base clock to 101.1 has stopped my pc crashing or freezing. It does mean though that periodically there is a slightly jerkyness briefly every now and then.

Going to update to BIOS F13 when I can to see if that fixes everything.
 
Just got a new PC from OCUK and its freezing just sitting in the BIOS. F7 BIOS and Ive tried the 100.1 thing mentioned.

"Seems" ok in Windows, only had it a few hours so not 100% sure yet.

Has the new BIOS rev fixed it does anyone know ?
 
Rikki said:
Just got a new PC from OCUK and its freezing just sitting in the BIOS. F7 BIOS and Ive tried the 100.1 thing mentioned.

"Seems" ok in Windows, only had it a few hours so not 100% sure yet.

Has the new BIOS rev fixed it does anyone know ?
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Had the same issues as the OP. used the 100.1 fix for a while then flashed from F7 to F14 which in my case has fixed the problem.
 
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