x58 motherboard

System spec: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R rev. 2 Intel Xeon X5680 DDR3 Ripjaws 2133mhz Corsair RM650X Samsung SSD GTX 750ti Palit Kalmx Hello! I decided to change the old thermal paste on the north and south bridge of my motherboard (Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R). Unfortunately Threads on the locking...

TL;DR If I set the SATA controller to compatible mode (ide emulation), the controller still sees an attached hard drive but cannot access it. It can only access the CD drive. Hello, I am booting MSDOS on this motherboard, via the built-in floppy controller. The manual recommends setting the...

Hi Everyone, I was trying to do a BIOS Update on my server computer because I had bought a new CPU and it required a BIOS Update in order to run, but somehow during the flash it corrupted itself and now the computer won't POST. My Question Is: How do I flash a new BIOS onto it without being able...

Okay to make the story short , i needed a pcie slot in a different place to use my case so i use a usb 3.0 pcie extension and nothing came to view. So while it was working wirh my gpc plugged on board i plugged in a wifi card into the usb 3.0(iknow x58 doesnt have 3.0 now) my screen would...

I was given this computer away. The only thing that was taken out was the hard drive, so I went ahead and bought an SSD from Micro Center, I install the media tool to install windows 10 but it wasn’t booting from the usb. I tried to search for answers but none had helped. Tried Rufus, the Usb...

So I have this old system which working fine until recently I moved it to another place. When I click on power button CPU, GPU and Case fan start with CPU's blue led and motherboard's orange led turn into green. Everything seems normal at this stage then suddenly few seconds after it's stop...

I have a old X58 motherboard and it originally came with a I7-920 and it worked completely fine with that cpu. But that cpu has a limit at 24 gigs of ram so i wanted to upgraded to a Xeon 5630 which allows for up to 288 gigs. And this is where my problems started I tossed the new cpu in and it...

Hello, I have a 2nd hand PC that originally had 12GB RAM 3 sticks of kingston 9905403-084 a01lf and 3 sticks of Kingston 9905403-152.A00LF Some time back windows started showing only 8GB Yesterday I tried to pull out the sticks and put them back in and on restart Windows showed only 4GB I've...

Hello everyone! I am trying to get an idea of what I could do with $300 to $350 based on using as much as I can from my current build. I already have some ideas, but here we go! What is the build, well it was built in Feb 2011 and consists of: Case: Antec 300 w/ modified side panel and extra...

Hey, so I have a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R, which supports LGA 1366. I currently have an i7 920 2.67ghz overclocked with a dual fan Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo. I am a complete noob at overclocking and might not have overclocked it very well, but either way, I am not getting nearly the performance I...

Hi guys, so today I switched systems with a user in my workplace. They complained of recently slow performance in Maya. Turns out that PC only has access to 3.2GB of RAM. I have tried everything online. I have made sure the maximum memory box is unchecked. I changed the 'ClearPageFileAtShutdown'...

I am planning to add another 4GB to my existing 4 GB DDR3 RAM for my laptop. My existing RAM is shown in the first figure and the most similar RAM I found from a local store is the second image. Will both be perfectly compatible....? I want to maximize performance. I am having this now click...