Hi,
I've built the following machine:
Gigabyte Z77 D3H
i5 3570K
8GB Corsair Vengance 1600mhz
Sapphire HD7850
Antec Truepower 650w
3HDDs, 1 SSD.
I'm having some major issues with the Z77 bios:
Few system instability issues, so I Qflashed it to F14(from F10). It said this was successful but after that I just got a corrupt bios screen whenever I tried to get into the bios, use Qflash(any of the bios options on boot), although the machine could boot and function fine. It was a black screen with a bit of blue at the top with gigabyte UEFI dual bios written on it.
I've contacted support from the retailer and gigabyte and not had much luck solving it:
Can't flash it again because of corruption. Can't change any bios settings.
Tried booting from the second bios (ctrl F10 IIRC?) - no change.
Tried removing the CMOS - no change.
Tried various HD variations (individually and all together) - no change.
Was getting ready to RMA it, took all the cables off (CPU fans, Power LEDs etc) - Then had to put them all back in as my 3TB drive isn't recognised in my old system and I needed to back some data up. I hadn't removed the RAM, GPU or CPU at this point just the silly cables.
Tried the bios for some reason and it worked!
It's been running fine for 4 days, slowly building up the drivers and updates, able to get into the bios, confirmed F14 was installed on it and it's still detecting everything correctly - then today it's gone back to the black screen AGAIN! I booted up and SP1 was waiting if that's possibly relevant. I'm guessing it's a driver/software based issue but I have no idea what the conflicting object could be or how to restore the bios again. I can't believe taking the fan cables off made a difference but it seemed to?
Anyone experienced this? Is it really an intermittent or corrupt bios/board or am I right that it could be drivers or O/S based?
I've built the following machine:
Gigabyte Z77 D3H
i5 3570K
8GB Corsair Vengance 1600mhz
Sapphire HD7850
Antec Truepower 650w
3HDDs, 1 SSD.
I'm having some major issues with the Z77 bios:
Few system instability issues, so I Qflashed it to F14(from F10). It said this was successful but after that I just got a corrupt bios screen whenever I tried to get into the bios, use Qflash(any of the bios options on boot), although the machine could boot and function fine. It was a black screen with a bit of blue at the top with gigabyte UEFI dual bios written on it.
I've contacted support from the retailer and gigabyte and not had much luck solving it:
Can't flash it again because of corruption. Can't change any bios settings.
Tried booting from the second bios (ctrl F10 IIRC?) - no change.
Tried removing the CMOS - no change.
Tried various HD variations (individually and all together) - no change.
Was getting ready to RMA it, took all the cables off (CPU fans, Power LEDs etc) - Then had to put them all back in as my 3TB drive isn't recognised in my old system and I needed to back some data up. I hadn't removed the RAM, GPU or CPU at this point just the silly cables.
Tried the bios for some reason and it worked!
It's been running fine for 4 days, slowly building up the drivers and updates, able to get into the bios, confirmed F14 was installed on it and it's still detecting everything correctly - then today it's gone back to the black screen AGAIN! I booted up and SP1 was waiting if that's possibly relevant. I'm guessing it's a driver/software based issue but I have no idea what the conflicting object could be or how to restore the bios again. I can't believe taking the fan cables off made a difference but it seemed to?
Anyone experienced this? Is it really an intermittent or corrupt bios/board or am I right that it could be drivers or O/S based?