Seems like after doing all the research and looking at other people's configs - I am amazed that this company can claim this board is supports Vista!!
I put the system together, it POSTED great, set up optimized per the manual, checked, re-checked, and everything else, then set up RAID - PASS no issues. Went to install Vista 64, made it all the way to the final step - smoothly - thought I had a winner. Then the system rebooted and I got the first BSOD.
I talked to gigabyte and they said use Q-Flash to update to ver 5f - did it, via floppy( the floppy cable supplied with the mobo was bad - there went another hour of BS) the system rebooted and then some message came on the screen that said "attempting to recover bios from hard drive" - yeah right - then it was a brick.
Now the computer just powers up for 5 seconds, turn the fans on, flash the leds on the DVD drives and then does it again... and again... and again.
What a frustrating POS. I should have went with my gut and just went with an Intel MOBO. My bad for trying state of the art.
Aside from an RMA - is there ANYTHING I can do to restore the BIOS? This computer does nothing - so CDRom, Floppy booting is worthless. The so called quad bios safety is a friggin joke - they should be prosecuted for lying to us - if it actually worked the BIOS would have crashed and rolled back to the original version - apparently - it looks on hard drives that had not even been set up yet !
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I put the system together, it POSTED great, set up optimized per the manual, checked, re-checked, and everything else, then set up RAID - PASS no issues. Went to install Vista 64, made it all the way to the final step - smoothly - thought I had a winner. Then the system rebooted and I got the first BSOD.
I talked to gigabyte and they said use Q-Flash to update to ver 5f - did it, via floppy( the floppy cable supplied with the mobo was bad - there went another hour of BS) the system rebooted and then some message came on the screen that said "attempting to recover bios from hard drive" - yeah right - then it was a brick.
Now the computer just powers up for 5 seconds, turn the fans on, flash the leds on the DVD drives and then does it again... and again... and again.
What a frustrating POS. I should have went with my gut and just went with an Intel MOBO. My bad for trying state of the art.
Aside from an RMA - is there ANYTHING I can do to restore the BIOS? This computer does nothing - so CDRom, Floppy booting is worthless. The so called quad bios safety is a friggin joke - they should be prosecuted for lying to us - if it actually worked the BIOS would have crashed and rolled back to the original version - apparently - it looks on hard drives that had not even been set up yet !
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