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In Reply to: RE: cMP - the open source high-end Memory Player posted by cics on December 30, 2007 at 05:42:01
Hi,
If you have purchased and are using the Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H, can you let me know if the board worked well out of the box or if you have had problems? I was about to purchase one but the reviews on New Egg seem to suggest its a fairly low quality board.
Thanks,
Alan
Follow Ups:
After getting through the install the PCI bus crapped out. Board was RMA,ed under warranty listening to it right now. Excellent playback! My CPU and Video voltages are a little higher than recommended. My thought do those two changes last. T.
No worries!
I was confused by the board asking me which HDD "system" (I really have no idea what it does) I wanted - I inadvertently chose AHCI and could not get it to work which is no surprise (no) but it was quite confusing to me.
I think I had to re-install WINDOWS, it was awhile ago, and all was fine after that.
I find my set-up, which is to cics's specification and is only used for music purposes, will only allow a CPU voltage of .7 volt. Anything less and it freezes up and requires BIOS battery removal to start again.
I do find that little things will cause boot failure and it returns to a bit over 1 volt which then requires BIOS battery removal. But the neat thing is the first screen I see after restart gives me the default choice of PREVIOUS GOOD VERSION, or something like that and when it comes up to cPLAY and I check CPUZ the voltage is correct. All of the BIOS settings are set to cics specification. So, it is a bit of a pain but one does not have to re-do all of the BIOS setting.
Luckily my box is homemade and allows quick access to the battery.
Other than that the board performs very well and DOES sound better than the previous generation MB and CPU.
As far as quality, the things looks very high quality. I have read the NEWEGG reviews also which are certainly not ALL negative.
If you like cics's approach you should take your chances and get one. I think it far more likely you will NOT have MB failure.
Bye.
This is just my own experience.
I had Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H v1.3 which apart from a different LAN chipset I suppose it's newer than v1.0.
Out of the box MB worked really well for a week. I then had to reinstall to partition differently. After the reinstall I realized I had slightly higher DPC latency figures and strangely no Power Saving. After the 4th reinstall the mobo went dead and I had to RMA it. I am now waiting for replacement with the same MB.
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