problem with a gigabyte 8iex

[neudorf]

on a gigabyte ga 8iex and a p4 2.0a, as soon as I it o/c and that the p4 exceed 2,2 ghz (110 * 20) , I cannot reboot the PC (dos or Windows 98se) !

The screen is black !

I am obliged to shutdown the PC and restart it.

Wit a o/c 2,5 ghz (125* 20), the pc is ok (51° in load with 2,5 ghz 1.725 voltage)

my RAM is with pc2700 mark samsung. An idea?

 

[EtOH]

Sounds an awful lot like the problem a lot of people have (myself included) when raising the cpu voltage. Do a search on 8irxp and see if it sound familiar. Unfortunately Gigabyte has never fixed the 8irxp and I doubt they will fix the 8iexp either.

Good Luck.

EtOH

 

[Tummy]

I have a similar problem with my GA 8IGX. It sucks - totally stable at 177fsb but cannot reboot consistently (very occasionally it does work). Most of the time I get no post, and sometimes I get my Award boot Block BIOS showing up. Kind of sucky as I really like the board except for this one problem.

I really do hope a BIOS fix becomes available for this problem.

 

[EtOH]

I have been waiting for a bios fix for a while (months) from them and I wouldn't hold my breath. You may want to consider RMA'ing it if you can and getting something that doesn't have that problem. It seems to be common accross Gigabyte boards.

EtOH

 

[neudorf]

But it is a solution to have a reboot with a o/c > 2.2 ghz ?

The p4 run fine at 2.5 ghz !

 

[Duffi]

Hi guys,

good to see that I am not alone with the problem. On my system (ga-8iex with p4 1.8A) it is the same situation. At 2.37GHz (132MHz FSB) the reboot is working, at any higher FSB speed the system is stable but the reboot fails. I tested my p4 at 2.5GHz with 1.675V on the ASUS motherboard of my friend -- ran very well, no problems with the reboot or stability. I tried it on my board with every bios I could get my hands on, but even with the lastest bios (F6) I had no success.

I would say that this behaviour should be published by many computer magazines to urge Gigabyte to do something about this matter. Finally Gigabyte promotes his overclocking features...

What do you think?

Regards,
Duffi

PS: Did anybody of you get Easytune IV to work with that the GA-8IEX? Not that is would be neccessary but ... another brick in the wall...