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Enyalius · 12-14-08

Thanks for the reply. I'll keep looking if you will

Anyone else?

kimosabi · 12-14-08

Im currently trying to get a stable 4.0gHz clock here. Had some issues running OCCT. The HDD`s kept starting and stopping while using OCCT and made it unstable. When i closed OCCT the HDDs stopped clickin on me all the time and things seem to be working fine when not testing and no OCCT.

Heres what it looks like just after failing OCCT:

I noticed a huge drop in the 5V. Could it be an idea to raise the ICH-voltage a bit???

error10 · 12-14-08

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Originally Posted by stn0092

Auto leaves the GTLREF at 0.63, which corresponds to a reference voltage of 0.76V (assuming your VTT is 1.20V) in BIOS.

VTT x GTLREF = Reference Voltage

Reference voltage is what you're setting. If you want to a GTLREF of 0.67, multiply your VTT by 0.67 and find the closest available reference voltage value without going over. Do the same for whatever GTLREF you want. I have my both my CPU and NB ref at 0.67.

This much I knew already.

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Originally Posted by stn0092

Note that once you set your reference voltage to match the desired GTLREF, the BIOS will automatically scale the reference voltage as you increase VTT.

Now I didn't know that. I'll go play with it later today. Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Enyalius

Ok, so I've had this board for about three weeks, and within the last few days I have been driven to the point of madness because of what I have decided to call "Six Seconds to Failure" (some of you may have seen my post).

What happens is: Every six seconds (yes, you can almost set a clock to it), the video/audio will "hiccup". Doesn't matter what I'm doing; from gaming to video to just mousing around in the desktop, it happens every six seconds (to test this, I literally just moved my mouse in a circle, and every six seconds, for a split second, the arrow would freeze and then jump to where it should be).

My question is, has any one else had this problem (before I RMA my board back to the egg), and does the beta BIOS fix this problem. In the meantime, I have swapped out the Gigabyte board in favor of my old EVGA 680i SLI, but I really would like to get my Gigabyte back.

That sounds like a driver issue or some other sort of software conflict. It's almost certainly not a hardware issue.

Enyalius · 12-14-08

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Originally Posted by error10

That sounds like a driver issue or some other sort of software conflict. It's almost certainly not a hardware issue.

I wish that were true, but it most certainly seems to be a hardware issue. This happened on fresh installs of Vista without any preloaded drivers, which is something it did not do a week ago. It does seem to be a hardware issue.

Even when getting all the latest drivers from Gigabyte's site, the problem remains.

error10 · 12-14-08

You installed the Logitech mouse software?

A quick Google search reveals this is a common problem with the Logitech G5.

Enyalius · 12-14-08

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Originally Posted by error10

A quick Google search reveals this is a common problem with the Logitech G5.

No, I have never installed the software (though I do have that mouse and I did install the software for my original G15 keyboard) and I didn't start having a problem until recently. Can you point me to where you found that problem? I know that "google is my friend", but I tried to search it and didn't come up with anything.

Also, why would it happen to games/video, and why would it only happen within the last few days? For my logic, if this is and has been a driver issue, shouldn't I have had it since day 1?

error10 · 12-14-08

It's Windows, driver and software interactions can get so bizarre that it's virtually impossible to diagnose them.

One thing I saw on a Google search is the problem would happen if the mouse was plugged into a USB hub, and go away when plugged directly into the computer.

Another thing I saw was that the problem went away when the user updated the Intel chipset drivers.

And then there were various Windows updates...

Enyalius · 12-14-08

The mouse was plugged directly into the USB port on the IO of the motherboard; I had all drivers and windows updates.

I have swapped that board out in favor of my EVGA 680i SLI as the problem was just driving me nuts. I really don't want to go through the trouble of trying to swap the Gigabyte back in unless I feel that I have a real chance at fixing this, so if you have anything more concrete, please let me know. Otherwise, I have an RMA from Newegg and it will go out tomorrow (I really don't want to ship it off :/).

kimosabi · 12-14-08

Think im about to figure this board out.

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=463005

Finally im in the 4gHz-club!

error10 · 12-14-08

Some other things I found:

Make sure the two ACPI options in BIOS are Enabled.
Disable SetPoint.
Change the mouse pointer scheme to something other than Aero.
Check Task Manager to see if a process has gone out to lunch.

Supposedly MS broke something with a Vista update and there's a Vista pre-SP2 hotfix that also fixes this sort of problem, though I haven't found it yet.

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