Gigabyte MoBo owners....

[Urban_Tiger 0]

Hey all,

Hope all you regulars are well ?????

Have been drawing blanks on a problem my freinds comp has and he's getting to the point of dropping his Comp out of the 3rd floor Window hehe, just wondering if any "Gigabyte MoBo owners" have seen summat similar to the following before and may know of a cure for the poor guy please lol. I promised him I'd ask where there was a good chance that one of the people would know something to help him !!!

What it is, he has exactly the same MoBo as me (Gigabyte GA-7VAXP, (BIOS flashed to the factory standard at the time of purchase to F11 BTW)), only he has this problem that if he fully "Shuts Down" his comp, that on a "Cold" restart the next day or maybe even 1/2 hour or so later, he gets a Blue Screen and an error msg saying that the system is not ACPI compliant even though it is lol (and it advises disabling the ACPI etc etc). There is no option in the BIOS like A-Bit or Asus MoBo's have either for example to disable the ACPI options at all, so it can't even be disabled to stop this problem that way lol. If he does a normal "Hot" Re-Boot/Restart, the problem doesn't manifest itself at all either and restarts absolutely fine with no problems at all, it ONLY happens when the Comp has been completely shut down for a period of time. And, it is then a total ###### to get his Comp started again too obviously !!

As said, I have exactly the same MoBo (also flashed to F11 presently too) and haven't had or seen this problem (both running Win XP Home Ed too), so has anyone ever come across this before please and know of a cure???

It is his self build, the parts supplier suspected a H/D to our utter dismay lol, and on changing it for a brand new one to humour them, low and behold as some may expect, no joy there either, it wasn't that at all. Monitoring the CPU for errors has been carried out and that all checks out OK too, the Memory has been tested and tried one module at a time etc, and even alternatives of known perfect Memory tried and still it does it too. All cables too have been swapped for known working ones and still it does it so all his kit is absolutely 100%. The PSU is also fine andhas more than enough to cope with the kit etc (also, if it was that, why would it Reboot fine, but then cause this problem only when the Comp has been Shut Down and then Started Up again later too lol)????

Essentially, everything is functioning exactly as it should be with no errors at all except for this problem on Starting Up the Comp if it was completely switched off????? Real frustrater that one !!

Anyone wanna take a crack at this one please guys lol (before I have a suicided freind (eeeeeekkkk lol)) ???

He's promised many pints of beer to anyone who can think of any possibles for it (dread to think how he's gonna email beer tho hehehe)!!?????!!????

[Chef-Scott 0]

When at the main BIOS screen press Ctrl+F1, this will unlock "hidden" bios settings on GigaByte motherboards.

EDIT: Forgot to add that I flashed my GA-7N400 Pro to BIOS version F11 and had similar problems. I flashed it back to the F9 version and it has run rock solid since.

Edited October 8, 2003 by Chef-Scott

[Dark Ranger 0]

- Try clearing the CMOS, wait 60 seconds, then power up the computer.

- Check your Device Manager in System. Is there an exclamation point next to "System board extension for ACPI BIOS"?

- Might try disabling the ACPI settings in the BIOS, as they may be confilicting with the Windows ACPI management profiles.

- Download the F9 BIOS, and flash backward.

Shot in the dark here, but are there any UPS batteries connected to the PC?

Glad to see you around UT.

[snakebite1967 0]

i own a GA-7VA mobo and also had issues with the f11 bios but as stated above f9 is more stable, other than what has already been posted ive drawn a blank

[RooK 0]

If ever in doubt, ask the guys at AMDforums.com in the Gigabyte section.

I just know that they've had some problems in the past with my model (luckly I got a rev2) and it seems to stem to their kt400 offerings as well.

[Urban_Tiger 0]

Heya guys, good to see ya too !!

OK....replies lol.....

Chef-Scott, yeh, I knew about the ctrl-f1 function for the hidden BIOS settings, but all that really adds is options for altering memory timings, latencies etc and a few other options that have no direct bearing on the problem in hand, but thanx for ya suggestion m8 !

Dark Ranger, yeh we also cleared the CMOS (BTW, the battery needs to be removed for nearer 20 minutes for it to be sucesful too if you ever encounter any problems of ya own in the future too m8, removing it for 60 secs or so doesn't seem to clear it lol! Interesting to note as per ya suggestion tho to the "System Board" in the Device Manager on his comp too. It hasn't got the caution marks etc to draw attention to a problem, but if you look at its properties it does say the drivers are not installed for the device, even tho we know they are, (also a few other items say that the drivers aren't installed at all even tho they are too, and they have been tried with every driver version and Service Pack available too. Other items saying that no drivers are installed are the System Timer, System Speaker, DMA Controller (how the hell the comp even works if that driver isn't installed I'll never know rofl), Numeric Data Processor too and a couple of others, all core components that if they weren't installed as per the warning the Comp simply wouldn't even run, or would it rofl)???

There's also no option to disable the ACPI in the BIOS Dark Ranger, if there was then that would hopefully sort the problem instantly, but Gigabyte seemingly didn't bother to include that one lol!! And no, there is no UPS system or batteries installed on his system m8, thanx for ya input too tho m8, although it hasn't helped to change anything this time, any suggestions help so if ya have anymore then feel free, it is appreciated !!

Rook and Snakebite, yeh, looks like we may either try putting the F9 BIOS on his system, or maybe even try flashing to F13, or even the F14 version that has just been released too, that may help it??? At least you can Flash backwards as well as forwards, which is handy if a later BIOS isn't too hot etc!!

I'm steering towards his Mobo being outright knackered tho basically, although I've never had a problem with Gigabyte MoBo's myself either, my freind has sworn he will never get another with the Gigabyte Tech Support being so utterly crap and basically non-existant and TBH, from what I've seen here I'll never get another either, which is a shame as the boards have some very nice features even if they aren't the best for OC'ing etc, which isn't a priority to him or me admittedly, which is another reason why we got them too!! We both just wanted functionality with features and OC'ing isn't something either are worried about really !!

Also was reading thru a website concerning the GA-7VAXP last nite for him too. There were hundreds of posts on the board, unfortunately many of them reportingproblems with it:(. It seems that this board is well known for many issues, problems and outright failures and that too has seriously put doubt in my mind as to where Gigabyte are headed . I wish to hell now that I had gone with the choice I was 50/50 over when buying this board of getting an Asus rofl, he is wishing that he went for an Asus or A-Bit too after all this trubble. Oh well, hopefully we'll sort summat soon, just a shame it may have cost money to find out the hard way that these boards may have some deep seated issues and it's also worthy of note that many retailers have now removed the 7VAXP from their shelves too !!

Check out http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/to...topic/2367/?o=0 if ya interested, you won't believe the amount of posts there are on this forum, MOST of them (didn't count but certainly 500+) complain of problems and issues. It seems that this board is not very reliable at all, whether it is due to poor working practises when manufacturing the boards or other issues remains to be seen, but something seems very very wrong with these boards Worldwide too. Wish we both has seen all of this info before we both paid out for em too lol, Goldarnit!!

Edited October 9, 2003 by Urban_Tiger

[snakebite1967 0]

ya well dont take too much stock with forums i can list any mobo mfg and they will have forums full of complaints , i was a die hard MSI guy till a string of bad kt3 ultra mobos now after building multiple pc's for friends and family using mostly gigabyte mobo's im totaly satisfied with them.

try an RMA fingers crossed its a bad mobo thats easily swapped

tho i havent ran or instaled the p version just the ga-7vax and the newer 333fsb revision kt400a

Edited October 9, 2003 by snakebite1967

[Urban_Tiger 0]

Heya Snakebite,

Yeh, very valid point m8 as ever !

Granted some poeple will always have problems with certain kit I do agree, but having read thru all of those posts last nite I can't remember ever seeing so many all complaining of the same issues for other kit if ya know what I mean lol, many of them with no direct cure to them either, it isn't encouraging reading even if you know that forums in general do have to be taken with a pinch of salt much of the time too as you say!! For the same problems to be so widespread and repeated so much means that something isn't as it should be I suspect, but as you say hopefully we'll get to the bottom of it and a return is obviously going to have to be the next course of action and see what the retialer comes up with etc.

Will keep anyone interested posted on the outcome of course !!