Ate 5 of my drives

degree9

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I have the Gig 880MA-UD2H and so far it has trashed 5, yes 5 hard drives. Someone suggested a firmware fix but where would I get that. I can't find it here or at gigabyte
 
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EDIT: Just like the people below me say, the culprit is most likely the PSU. Bad call on going with the flow and agreeing that it was a motherboard issue.

Take out every component, get a hammer, trash the motherboard, claim it was like that when it arrived and ask for RMA.

Just kidding, but seriously, I'm not sure if a firmware update would fix it. It seems like a serious hardware issue for it to trash HDDs like that.

But here's Gigabyte's guide: http://www.gigabyte.com/webpage/20/HowToReflashBIOS.html

And here's where to get the BIOS: http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/utility.aspx
EDIT: Just like the people below me say, the culprit is most likely the PSU. Bad call on going with the flow and agreeing that it was a motherboard issue.

Take out every component, get a hammer, trash the motherboard, claim it was like that when it arrived and ask for RMA.

Just kidding, but seriously, I'm not sure if a firmware update would fix it. It seems like a serious hardware issue for it to trash HDDs like that.

But here's Gigabyte's guide: http://www.gigabyte.com/webpage/20/HowToReflashBIOS.html

And here's where to get the BIOS: http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/utility.aspx
 
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