Z68 Boot Loop Common Issue?

[dr0be]

I am buying the rest of my parts soon for my new build and I was going to go with a Z68 gigabyte motherboard (UD4-b3, to be exact, but newegg is out of them so I may get a different model), but I noticed that barely any Z68 motherboards on newegg have 5/5 eggs. I went reading user reviews on all the different boards (asus, gigabyte, msi, etc) and they all have 3-4/5 eggs and all for the same reason; boot loops.

Is this a common problem with the z68 chipset? I tried googling this, but all I got were a ton of forum posts about users own boot loops and not about the chipset.


Note: Rest of the build is;
-Crucial M4 128GB SSD (owned already)
- i5-2500k
- Gigabyte z68 mobo?
- MSI GTX560Ti (owned already)
- G.Skill 8GB DDR3-1600 RipjawX

 

[Binky]

Well...unhappy people are more prone to writing a (negative) review than happy people. I'd give my Z68 build 5 eggs easy. No boot loops. It's the best build I've ever had, and my last system was extremely good and hard to improve on.

Asus P8Z68 Pro, 2600K, MSI 6950

 

[dr0be]

Well...unhappy people are more prone to writing a (negative) review than happy people. I'd give my Z68 build 5 eggs easy. No boot loops. It's the best build I've ever had, and my last system was extremely good and hard to improve on.

Asus P8Z68 Pro, 2600K, MSI 6950

From working in retail, I kind of assumed that is the case with a lot of things on newegg. I did have a bad experience with my video card (MSI GTX560Ti) when I ignored the reviews about artifacting and ending up having to RMA it twice, hence why I was a little hesitant after seeing all the boot loop reviews.

I've had my Gigabyte P35-DS4 for a few years now and never had any problems, so I figured I'd stick with them. Thanks for clearing my worries a bit.

 

[Capt Caveman]

No issues either with my Asus P8Z68 Pro with 2500k and Crucial M4 128gb.

 

[pauldun170]

No issue so far on an Asrock z68m/usb3.

 

[videopho]

I have seen this happens in couple times with my brand spanking new GB Z68-UD3 with F2 bios. A little annoying at first but not yet a nuisance. What happens is bios posts a few seconds then restart by itself but then it's fine after that.
The mobo is now up to F4 and can't seem to repeat which is a good thing.

 

[dr0be]

I have seen this happens in couple times with my brand spanking new GB Z68-UD3 with F2 bios. A little annoying at first but not yet a nuisance. What happens is bios posts a few seconds then restart by itself but then it's fine after that.
The mobo is now up to F4 and can't seem to repeat which is a good thing.

Yeah I heard once you get the new BIOS on there it stops doing it.

I already got the latest firmware on my SSD, but as for BIOS and intel chipset drivers, you can install those after the OS is installed, correct?

 

[sequoia464]

This thread at overclock.net has some info on it - 42 pages and counting.

... http://www.overclock.net/intel-motherboards/1034724-gigabyte-p67-z68-boot-cycling-problem.html

These are the Newegg negative reviews of one of the Gigabyte boards that seemed to have issues -...again these are just the negatives, there are more positive comments by far than negative.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...scrollFullInfo

The board that was having the problems seems to have been discontinued, I returned one of the GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD4-B3's because of the seemingly random issues - I was building a work machine and couldn't take the chance with that particular board.

 

[MadScientist]

I sometimes get a double boot only when I make major changes to my bios settings. Other then that, never.

 

[Binky]

Double boot happens on hardware changes, yes. This is totally normal. If the gigabyte has these issues...buy something else.