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eVGA 680i problems. please help!

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After 3 years I finally sent my Dell to the curb and bought a new computer:
eVGA 680i mobo/chipset 122-CK-NF68
eVGA 7600gt (for now)
Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4
E6600 processor
Seagate sata2 320GB 16mb cache blah blah.
Everything stock; voltages, timings, cooling, etc..

Anyways I have been having a problem with it. The first time I had it running everything was cool for a while until it froze. I restarted, no biggie, and all seemed fine again. I installed STEAM and played a fair share of HL1 and 2 based games and it ran excellently. Later on I was just playing around in windows and it froze again. I figured I might have some driver issues so I formatted and reinstalled everything very carefully. The freezing problem did not go away so I figured it was either the power supply or the harddrive. I changed the powersupply out for a PCP&C Silencer 750, and I was will getting freezing. So at that point I am thinking it must be the harddrive. I ran the Seagate scan disk thing and on "quick check", it passed with flying colors. On the "total check" it found 30+ bad sectors before getting to 1% completion. At that time I went out and bought a new drive; same thing, but a 300gb'r.
Upon installing windows.. more freezing!
I flashed the bios to the newest version and everything seems fine now.. but I am just really distraught over this. This computer should be pretty nuts, but now it seems like junk just waiting to freeze.

Any suggestions or "what an idiot, he should just..."'s?
Thanks for reading
 
Have you got any other devices installed i.e. PCI sound card, wirless net card, standard net card etc? It could be that if you have got a few devices installed one of them could be causing the problems, so remove all devices bar the GFX card. Also it could be your ram if you have 2 gig in 4 banks or 1 gig using 2x 512, or 2 gig via 2x 1gig sticks remove all of them and gradually test each stick to make sure its not the ram. After the rams been tested started adding the extra devices in one by one. This normally works for me when I have problems and normally ends up being my sound card having problems and locking my system up.

Also i read some where that it's worth updating the bios on these EVGA 680i boards as it does fix some issues with hardware problems they have been having. I've ordered the same board but its coming on the weekend so I can't really do any testing to help you out.
 
I had this board for a month and had to RMA it. There is a known issue with the board, both EVGA and nVidia have acknowledged it, in regards to sata/raid/ide errors. It does not affect averyone, but it does affect quite a few. Follow this link to get to EVGA's support forums and you will see several thread about this very issue. There is a sticky that has a list of some fixes that have worked for some users, but keep in mind they may or may not work for you.

I was able to work around it by installing a pci express sata controller and running my hard drives off of it. Some people said this works for them, others still have the problem. To me, I wasn't patient enough to wait it out, I returned it and picked up the Intel BX2 for now. When EVGA/nVidia get this fixed, I'll rebuy the board.

http://www.evga.com/community/messageboard/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=26

Make sure you take the time to read through the posts, there is a lot of good info there and maybe, just maybe, one of the listed fixes might work for you. If you can get the 680i stable, it really is one heck of a board.

Shawn
 
Well it happens to many Companies that they deliver good hardware with bad firmware or BIOS. Mostly proper BIOS solves most of a issues with hardware.

Sometimes they just turn off some of a functions or features and everythign works. Sometimes they fix issues and everything works fine.

Once design of a mainboard is in testing they test it with as many hardware as they can.
Though there is so many different hardware that it's imposible to test it all out.

Tough on other hand it's often scenario that Nvidia chipsets have problems with IDE, SATA and RAID configurations and devices.

Sometimes it's combination of lack of some feature on device then chipset handling of a device plus BIOS of a mainboard and implementation of a chipset.

Early nforce chipsets would go crazy with some DVD drives.
N3 on some mainboards wouldn't work with some SATAII Maxtor drives.
Some n4 Sli mainboards have had also unwanted devices.


Sometimes fixes are simple and come qicky and do not affect performance.
Sometimes fix is to avoid use some combinations.

Sometimes there is no good solution.

Though if Your BIOS update has solved data corruption issue I would give it a time to see how stable it is going to be with time passing.


I have had it many times and once fixed problems mostly disapear and never come back.


Sometimes they just give some BIOS that "solves" some issues but then they make hardware version 1.01 and recall version 1.00 or do not recall it. If they do not then I usualy sell version 1.00 and get a 1.01 or 1.20 version :)





MD
 
Bad New For you, I think you got 'the bug'.

Checkout the first article on HardOCP frontpage there are a slew of data and data storage problems coming from the i680
 
On the bios front , I found the stock bios that came with my board from newegg was absolute crap. Once I finally got it flashed to the lastest, I havn't had any issues.

I havn't had any freezing issues with my Evga 680i yet. Im also running only a single IDE drive right now. But as noted everywhere, there are issues with the board that the latest bios will not fix for all users.
 
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