John6528

kristoffer


I've had some issues with my booting a while, and come to the conclusion that is probably is the motherboard. 
(The screen is black at coldboot - have to restart and everything is fine. I've seen some few other people on the Gigabyte forum having the same issue)

I have the Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R v2.0.
The problem is, there seems to be a problem to source x58 (LGA1366 socket) motherboards. At least in Norway.

I switched from Gigabyte to Asus Sabertooth. Works fine. My problem is I sank lot of money in I7 950's. Then more in ssd's. No X58 board will run ssd's at more than 50-60% of their top speed. I feel kinds cheated but on the other hand the system is plenty fast enough to run everything I do. 

John

I think I get pretty good speed of my SSD's - which SSDs do you have? 
I've only got 3 discs (2xssd and one HDD) so I only use the Intel chipset for the discs though. I've managed to not use the Marvell chipset as it is not recomended. (highly unstable to use)

Have you considered that a blank screen could be due to a faulty graphics card.  It may be worthwhile trying a different card before ditching the motherboard.

Kev999


Have you considered that a blank screen could be due to a faulty graphics card.  It may be worthwhile trying a different card before ditching the motherboard.

Yes, I have changed from my Matrox GPU (QID) to the Nvidia NVS450.
Same behaviour :)

kristoffer

Kev999

Have you considered that a blank screen could be due to a faulty graphics card.  It may be worthwhile trying a different card before ditching the motherboard.

Yes, I have changed from my Matrox GPU (QID) to the Nvidia NVS450.
Same behaviour :)

Would it be worth trying the graphics card in a different PCIe slot?

kristoffer

John6528

kristoffer


I've had some issues with my booting a while, and come to the conclusion that is probably is the motherboard. 
(The screen is black at coldboot - have to restart and everything is fine. I've seen some few other people on the Gigabyte forum having the same issue)

I have the Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R v2.0.
The problem is, there seems to be a problem to source x58 (LGA1366 socket) motherboards. At least in Norway.

I switched from Gigabyte to Asus Sabertooth. Works fine. My problem is I sank lot of money in I7 950's. Then more in ssd's. No X58 board will run ssd's at more than 50-60% of their top speed. I feel kinds cheated but on the other hand the system is plenty fast enough to run everything I do. 

John

I think I get pretty good speed of my SSD's - which SSDs do you have? 
I've only got 3 discs (2xssd and one HDD) so I only use the Intel chipset for the discs though. I've managed to not use the Marvell chipset as it is not recomended. (highly unstable to use)

OCZ Vertex 3. I get 350mb/sec with the vertex 3 which I understand is as good as it gets with X58 and Marvel. How do you NOT use the Marvel chipset? 

John

Ah, sorry. I forgot - SATA 2 (which is the most you could have from the Intel chipset) is limited to about 250mb/s per channel. 
Since I used the RAID option of the Intel chipset - I managed to get about 500mb/s. 



By the way - check the explanation why the Intel chipset is better here:
http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,10005.0.html

It is not the worst issue to have - but I've had the mobo for 2 years and the retailer has accepted to exchange/give me a refund. 

Hi Kristoffer,


If you've ruled other culprits out (sure it's the motherboard)... then it's time to swap it out.   

I had a "black screen" issue a few months ago. PC fans, drives, etc were functioning but it wouldn't boot or display anything on screen. I was ready to pull the trigger on a new daw as it's a little old compared to what's out there these days. Took it down to a local pc shop. It was a component failure on the mobo. Cost me $60.00 and 1 day for them to fix it. It's been 100% fine ever since.

I got my money back for the Gigabyte (havent sent it back yet but they approved my RMA)  and have recently got a good deal on the Intel DX58SO2 (60$, which I think is a good price  )
 
So - when I receive the new Intel board - do I have to reinstall everything or is there a smarter route? 
Since about everything will have new drivers I mean. 
 
For instance, install from a DAW backup image from my WHS?

Might be worth a try disabling the USB3 controller in BIOS on your current motherboard to see if that affects the boot failure issue.