seedy Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I have an X58A-UD3R and cannot seem to get long term stability with 4 x Force 60GB drives in RAID5 configuration. I also have 2 x 2TB Hitachi HDS722020ALA330 drives mirrored on the ICH10R controller. The system will lock up without warning, whether idle or busy with heavy disk I/O and CPU use. This can happen within a few minutes of booting or can be several hours after booting. I get impressive I/O stats but that is not much good unless the system is stable. http://i52.tinypic.com/6zsrv5.jpg OS is Windows 7 64 bit. 12GB RAM (6x Corsair CMX6GX3M3A1600C9). Memtest 86 ver 1.45 - 5 passes without error. BIOS is latest (FE) All BIOS settings at defaults (apart from enabling RAID of course) I have updated the drive firmware to ver. 2.0 Disabling C1E and EIST does not help. The problem still exists. I have been wrestling with this issue for about a month now. If I install Windows 7 onto a single Intel X25-M, the OS is stable 24x7 even at moderate overclock. I have tried using only 6GB RAM. I would appreciate thoughts from others who may have tried similar configurations. Regards Seedy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synbios Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 With this board you have to run the beta BIOS available from Gigabyte. Search around and you'll find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seedy Posted January 27, 2011 Author Share Posted January 27, 2011 Thanks for your reply. There are a few different versions of BIOS for this board, two from the gigabyte beta bios site and several on tweaktowns site. I am reluctant to pick one at random without hearing from someone who has had the problem and resolved it. I have already tried the most recent beta BIOS from tweaktown and the problem still existed with that one. I have also just found this thread which describes my problem exactly. Based on that thread it looks like I will have to get a new m/b.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synbios Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I found this thread for a different Gigabyte board, http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=89922&highlight=gigabyte+beta+bios Both are based on X58 chipset though I believe. Supposedly the latest BIOS should address issues with SSDs. However, the link you found over at Tom's could be more relevant, it could be a hardware problem that is unfixable. Here is the link to the beta bios site, it is worth trying a newer version if you haven't tried these yet: http://oldforum.gigabyte.de/forumdownload/betabios/betabios2010.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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