Gigabyte 990FX UD7 v1.1 Freezing!

CrazyGuy

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hello everyone,

I am having problems with my 990FX UD7 randomly freezing.
It will freeze randomly in the OS and even in the BIOS.

It worked for the longest time with zero problems then one day out of the blue it would boot to a black screen and my monitor's power light would blink and the screen would say No Signal.

I figured it might be the video card causing this issue so I swapped it from a PNY GTX460 to the GTX560.

Now no matter what video card I use it seems to randomly lock up.

So I dug through my box of spare bits and found a PC speaker I plugged that into the UD7 and it gives a single beep.

I've tried clearing the CMOS using the CLR CMOS button on the board, I've tried loading failsafe defaults.

I have also tried swapping the ram out to a spare stick of Wintec AMPX 1333 DDR3. It all ends in the same result.

The debug LED just says FF most of the time which I assume means everything should be fine.

Here is the system specs:

Gigabyte 990FX UD7 v1.1 (Bios F7)
AMD Phenom II X4 810
2x4gb Corsair XMS3 TW3X4G1333C9A Memory
EVGA GTX560 FTW edition
Corsair GS800 PSU
OS Kubuntu 12.10 and Windows 7 Home Premium

Any help would be wonderful I am at a loss as to what to try next...

-CG

Edit: Debug LED sometimes says 25 or 26 and I get no display when this occurs. I also posted this on the gigabyte forums but I figure this forum gets more traffic. :)
 
just a single mech 1TB drive. I even tried unplugging the drive and booting a linux live image off a usb stick. It gets to the KDE splash screen and hard locks IF i'm lucky enough to get that far. I usually don't get that far and it just locks up on the bios splash.

Oh and i've gotten a message about a post error and somthing about CMOS checksum error or somthing like that, and it asks me if I want to boot default settings or use the last known good. It only happens after powering the rig on and off several times, as the only way to get it to do anything after it locks is hold the power button, and sometimes I don't even get a video output unless I turn it on and off a couple times.

I thought about the possibility of corrupted bios but this gigabyte board doesn't seem to be the same as my last one where you could choose to load the backup bios. I can see two bios chips on the board, the UD7 does have dual bios doesn't it?

thanks,
-CG
 
I can't even get past the windows logo anymore when I load windows, and the equivalent on linux. And I am running the F7 bios, I'm not sure if there is anything newer but seeing as it hard locks in the bios i'm worried that its going to lock up during a flash and could end up bricked.

-CG
 
Well I finally got the nerve to try a BIOS update.

I flashed it to F10 and then rebooted it about 4 - 5 times and it hasn't frozen yet so perhaps the BIOS got corrupted some how?

How does that even happen?

Many thanks to all who helped.

-CG
 
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