I am the third owner of an old GA-M59SLI-S5 motherboard that has always been a tad quirky, however testing an new Intel 7265 based wireless card has caused me a lot of wasted time. Known issues were that newer video cards only work in the middle pcie x8 slot, and don't show up in the x16 slots, and that it will not see RAM in dual channel unless all 4 dimm slots are populated, along with seemingly lower than average overclocking stability with a A62x2 5200+
The new issues I have found is that USB is not recognized unless the OS loads, or the BIOS loads. After the selection screen goes past it will not accept any USB input, along with the boot menu and the q-flash menu. If I can get an OS install to not error out (my win7 disk may need to be burned again). I had an OS on the computer but it appears to have either dropped a sector with a .dll needed for the intel drivers to install or the install was borked to begin with. So I tried and failed to reinstall the OS on a new drive but it seems that the IDE interface is failing as well.
Does this point to a failing chipset?
The new issues I have found is that USB is not recognized unless the OS loads, or the BIOS loads. After the selection screen goes past it will not accept any USB input, along with the boot menu and the q-flash menu. If I can get an OS install to not error out (my win7 disk may need to be burned again). I had an OS on the computer but it appears to have either dropped a sector with a .dll needed for the intel drivers to install or the install was borked to begin with. So I tried and failed to reinstall the OS on a new drive but it seems that the IDE interface is failing as well.
Does this point to a failing chipset?