Gigabyte 8IRXP power up
Mr X
If I set the CPU voltage to normal I can shut down PC and start up fine. If
I set the CPU voltage manually - even to default 1.5volts it will only boot
back up the video / monitor if I turn it off and on at the back of power
supply (mains would have same result I assume).
I am running a Northwood 1.6 , 2x256mb Kingmax PC2400, Leadtek gf3 ti200,
350 watt powersupply, 2 x 60gb Seagate Barracuda IV's.
I have sent an email to Gigabyte awaiting reply - I am curious as to whether
others have or don't have the same problem .. and if they know of a
solution.
PS I have even set bios to fail-safe defaults - and then only adjusted the
CPU voltage manually to 1.5 volts same result.
Holger Richter
1,75V. When i change from normal to manually setup 1,75V i get the same
result - i doesn't boot up by pressing the Power button. Only when powering
on by mains it will start correctly. My board has a hard revision of 2.0 an
BIOS ver. F4.
Holger
Mr X
board, hopefully Gigabyte can just address this in the next bios revision.
Appreciate the reply
"Holger Richter" <holg...@t-online.de> wrote in message
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Billie NO MATES Gates
rebooted twice happily into windows with manually set vcore voltages both at
the default 1.5V and now just at 1.6V.........(don't you just like the fact
that I just put my whole new system in jeopardy to help you out).....I was
intrigued to see if this was a mother board fault maybe.........but seems to
work on my system..........sorry
I'm running a Northwood P4 2.0AGhz chip
1 GB of ram made up of 2x 512MB Crucial PC2100 DDR chips
120MB of Stripped Raid 0 hard disk
Creative Geforece 3 Ti200
350 Watt PSU
ohh and furry dice.
I wonder if its your ram or your PSU.......the PC2400 ram may be too much
for it...........just a guess..........I think I also saw someone the other
week complaining that they couldn't get the same board to post or go beyond
1.75 V and they wanted the full 1.85V....something about a Kebab stand or
his central heating had gone down and wanted to heat his house with his CPU
at 1.85V
Sorry if this isn't much help.........but as I say I would suspect that the
CPU core voltage adjustment might also be effecting something else.....have
you tried re flashing the bios.........if its not a peripheral problem then
it might be a faulty board, though I hope not.
One question does the easy tune III work if you try and over clock the board
as I was under the impression that it also adjusts core voltage as you step
up.
I better go I can smell burning..............is that the sound of a P4 chip
frying I hear..................................
Alan
(Only kidding about the frying..............................more a smoking
effect really..........I wonder if I can get high on the
fumes!).....................wowwwwwwwwww far out mannnnnnnnnnnnnnn
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Mr X
again?
Reboot works fine for me .. but if you shut down then try to power up again
without resetting the mains is when the problem occurs.
"Billie NO MATES Gates" <awa...@walker-net.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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jaquestati
do a google search and look for the other 8irxp threads the past few
weeks....
weirdness.....
this is a widespread problem and appears to be video card related....
frustrating thing is both 8irxp and both 1.8a northwoods i have had
the past week or two... BOTH do 2.541ghz cool and stable as a
cucumber...
they can prime95 torture and 3dmark till infinity without so much as
coughing.... yet go to restart and poof black screen....
it is not a vcore issue as near as i can tell.... and setting just a
few mhz above default and leaving vcore at normal ussually results in
the same black screen/unplug and then reboot again results :(
arghh..
GREAT board if they can fix this....... and hopefully fast..... :(
for now i just leave my machine on at 2.541mhz and if i have to reboot
just unplug for 10 seconds and then boot up..... frustrating... but
for now i'll live with it :(
this problem has been seen with some geforce2 ti200's and radeon
8500s... and no amount of agp or ram tweaking fixes it..... and btw
using pc2700 ddr 333 kingmax so ram aint the problem....
"Mr X" <p...@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message news:<P9i98.9628$Lv.11...@news.xtra.co.nz>...
Billie NO MATES Gates
BOARD.......THE GA-8IRXP BOARD CAN NOT...........I REPEAT CAN NOT BE SAFELY
OVER CLOCKED MANUALLY WITH REGARD TO SETTING YOUR OWN VOLTAGE
REQUIREMENTS...........UNFORTUNATELY FOR ME AND THE FEW OTHER POOR SUCKERS
THAT HAVE BOUGHT THIS BOARD ALREADY IT IS TOO LATE.
I FIRST MUST APOLOGIES TO ANY ONE WHO'S SEEN MY POSTS ON HOW GOOD THIS BOARD
WAS...........WHICH TO ALL INTENSE AND PURPOSES IT WAS............BUT LITTLE
DID I KNOW THAT IF YOU TRY TO MANUALLY ADJUST THE VCORE VOLTAGE OF THE CPU
(OR EVEN JUST SET THE DEFAULT 1.5V CORE VOLTAGE ON THIS BOARD. THE SYSTEM
WHEN POWERED DOWN AFTER HAVING CONTINUED TO BOOT INTO WINDOWS WILL ON NEXT
START UP JUST HANG............UNTIL YOU TURN THE POWER OFF AND THEN BACK ON
AT THE POWER SWITCH/BUTTON AND THEN IT WILL BOOT UP OK WITH THE MANUALLY SET
VOLTAGE YOU HAVE SET..........UNTIL THE NEXT TIME THAT YOU SHUT DOWN (IT
DOESN'T HAPPEN WHEN YOU CHOSE A WINDOWS RESTART...ONLY WHEN YOU CHOOSE A
SHUT DOWN IN WINDOWS AND THEN GO TO RESTART AGAIN FROM A COLD BOOT),
I FOR ONE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT GIGABYTE ARE GOING TO DO ABOUT
THIS...........AND UNLESS A FIX IS FORTH COMING I WILL OBTAIN A REFUND
EITHER THROUGH THE COMPANY WHO SUPPLIED IT......UNFORTUNATELY AT NO FAULT OF
THEIR OWN..........OR VIA GIGABYTE....THIS PRODUCT IS NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE
AND WAS SOLD CONTRAVENING THE TRADE DESCRIPTION ACT.
I HAVE SEEN A PREVIOUS POSTING WHICH STATED THAT SOME OTHER POOR SUCKER LIKE
ME HAD SPOKEN TO GIGABYTE ABOUT THIS SAME PROBLEM AND THEY TOLD HIM
BASICALLY THAT THEY DON'T GIVE A F@&%K AS OVER CLOCKING IS NOT THEIR
INTEREST.................BUT I BOUGHT THIS BOARD SO THAT I COULD HAVE THE
OPTION TO OVER CLOCK............SHOULD I DESIRE AND THEY SOLD A BOARD WITH
AN IMPLIED WARRANTEE VIA ADVERTISING AND THEIR OWN WEB SITE THAT THIS BOARD
WAS DESIGNED TO OVER CLOCK AND THEY EVEN SUPPLY AN OVER CLOCKING UTILITY TO
DO THIS.
THEIR BIOS SETUP FEATURES ALLOW YOU TO OVER CLOCK.......SO IM AFRAID THEIR
ON A STICKY WICKET IF THEY THINK THEY CAN PULL THAT ONE....TRADE
DESCRIPTIONS ACT AND SALE OF GOOD ACT SPRING TO MIND FOR
STARTERS..........FOLLOWED BY FIT FOR PURPOSE SHOULD DO THE TRICK.
UNTIL THEN DON'T BUY THIS MOTHER BOARD...............THIS POST WILL ALSO BE
PLACED ON THE OVER CLOCKING SITE AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT SITES.
THIS IS A SERIOUS FAULT WITH THE BOARD.............IF YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT IM
SAYING GIGABYTE TAKE ME TO COURT........PLEASE DO.
I SAY AGAIN DON'T BUY THIS BOARD.
NOW GIGABYTE WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO SAY.
A COPY OF THIS POSTING WILL ALSO BE SENT TO GIGABYTE.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
"Mr X" <p...@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message
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gbt-tech
The board is entirely fit for its purpose. Overclocking is always something
you do at your own risk, but since this board has been overclocked with a
2.2 pushed up to 3.0 I would say it does a pretty fair job of it.
Mike Mullen
CST
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Mr X
.. the problem is when you have a manual setting on the CPU voltage (not set
to "normal" setting) - even set to the default voltage 1.5 on Northwood ..
and that most certainly is not overclocking or setting anything above or
below normal or recommended. If you manually set a voltage you can boot up
fine .. but when you power off the machine with the front button .. or doing
a shut down from windows .. it wont boot up the monitor / video the next
time you push the power button.. UNLESS you power off the mains or power
supply and switch it back on.
they do overclock fine - the only problem is this booting up at a later time
(restarts and resets are fine).
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John
still have the reboot problem?
What I am thinking is that we may be able to use wire-wrap trick on
the cpu pins to get the extra cpu voltage and still keep the board
working perfectly.
Okay, I know it's bad news - but it might do the trick until Gigabyte
can fix the problem.
So has anyone got the cpu voltage set at "auto" and still got problems
of any sort?
Holger Eilhard
"Mr X" <p...@xtra.co.nz> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hello can / can't anyone else replicate this on their 8IRXP motherboard.
> If I set the CPU voltage to normal I can shut down PC and start up fine.
If
> I set the CPU voltage manually - even to default 1.5volts it will only
boot
> back up the video / monitor if I turn it off and on at the back of power
> supply (mains would have same result I assume).
Yes. I have this problem too. Some of us are searching for the Bios F2 and
see if this does the trick.
My Setup:
P-IV 1,8A
GA-8IRXP
512 MB Kingston PC266 DDR
etc...
Greetz
Holger
John
Feb.04.2002 but wasn't on the website until today I think - it doesn't
mention a fix for the reboot problem though - here is the description
on the Gigabyte website:
1. Added RAID/SCSI Boot Item
2. Support Promise ATA133 function
3. Fixed easytune show incorrect PCI frequency when AGP/PCI divider is
changed in BIOS setup
Anyone running the f5 bios yet? Did it fix the reboot problem?
Thanks
John
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gbt-tech
manual mode this screws up the ATX control signals, so it can't tell the PSU
to wake up in a soft power up. If this is the case I'm sure Taiwan will fix
it, however I would have to say having to use the mains switch to reset the
system against squeezing an extra 25-50% out of your CPU seems like a
reasonable trade off.
Mike Mullen
CST
Gigabyte UK
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John
I don't think it really is a "reasonable trade off". No other 845 DDR
board that I know of seems to be suffering this problem - the other
companies boards can also get 25-50% out of the cpu but still reboot
perfectly. eg. the Asus P4B266 was reviewed running rock solid at
172mhz FSB.
There is a trade off - the trade off is whether to buy (or keep) the
Gigabyte board and put up with the problem (and hope Gigabyte solve it
one day) or whether to buy another board. In my country the Gigabyte
has more features for the money than the boards offered by their
competitors. So the tradeoff is in fact buy features and boot-up
problems OR buy less features and no boot-up problems.
I love the spec for the Gigabyte board - but this problem is eating
away at me.
Any chance you can speak to Taiwan and provide us with an update as to
what they are currently thinking about the problem?
Thanks
John
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