Gigabyte GA-H57M-USB3 intermittent reboot
Marian Romascanu
activity with the on-board video, a couple of times every day or so.
Suspected PSU and line power, put it on UPS (an APC XS with AVR),
Still same issue. It is Windows XP SP3 on an Intel I3-570 and Kingston
DDR3 10600, case microATX CoolerMaster Elite 342 with its own 450W
PSU. Ran Memtest86+ for hours with no error. Using "safe defaults" in
BIOS, removed most of startup stuff, moved swap file to another
partition - still the same reboot pattern.Finding in the system
Eventlog random system errors. Please help - did anyone have similar
issues with this MOBO? Should I just RMA it or it might be a different
issue?
thang ornithorhynchus
Well this has managed to draw me out of my self-imposed Usenet
embargo. Some observations: PSU is awfully weak for a current-gen
MB. Also, it is some Chinese no-name, probably crappy rail(s), bad
caps etc. Secondly, does XP BSOD and if so, what is the error code
(just the one before the parentheses). If not, its not an OS error,
rather its either PSU or BIOS. Thirdly, have you reflashed the BIOS?
Is it a dual BIOS? Otherwise, you can DL the BIOS from Giga and USB
stick boot in pure DOS or use the @BIOS in the OS (hopefully it won't
reboot in the middle).
Mainly, though, why are you still using XP? Its positively antiquated
in comparison with 7. Try 7. Also, you could DL Hiren's boot disk
for USB and try that at boot, there are a lot of utilities there, it
might even be a hard drive error (improbable).
See, if its a BIOS error, you won't get an eventlog or BSOD because
its arising from outside of the OS. If I were you, I would reflash
the BIOS.
Don't RMA it if its not a bad board. I love Giga, they are probably
the top board MF now, had my x48-ds4 now for almost 3 years, its so
sturdy it outlasted a crappy Sapphire HD4870 (replaced with a loverly
Giga HD6850).
thang