My Gigabyte X99 UD-3P just up and died randomly. I replaced the mobo and everything else works just fine.
I've tried reseating everything. There hasn't been any hardware changes in over a month. There weren't any recent BIOS changes. I was running everything at stock speeds the past few months. No scorch marks, no blown caps, everything looks new. That one LED on the board that used to be always on no longer lights up.
The board just straight up died. I'm just trying to figure out what happened.
This happened between me turning off my computer for the night, and trying to turn it on the next morning. I also have the computer on a power strip which I turned off during the night.
@Yoinkerman yeah, I figured it just died with no explanation. @Calculatron nothing bumped it, before this happened I haven't opened the case in a few weeks.
@MisteryAngel The board is dead, I tired other parts and still nothing. Silver lining is that I upgraded to the Asus X99-A w/3.1.
Well it basicly doesnt realy suprise me i should say. I have never been a huge fan of Gigabyte X99 boards in general. There seem to be allot of problems with them. If everything works fine on the Asus, then yeah your Gigabyte UD3P has probably craped out on you. Since the UD3P is basicly at the lower end of the spectrum, this doesnt realy suprise me. What the problems could have been? thats hard to say. Then i need a closer look to the boards vrm area etc.
Yeah, I wasn't too keen on the board when I bought it (especially the 4 DIMMs), but moving to X99 put a hurt to the wallet and I ended up cutting one big corner.
Knowing what I know about Gigabyte's RMA process (or lack thereof) if they do the expected and not do anything I'll just tear into the board.
Its a bit weird i have to say, you probably just bad luck. The vrm on the Gigabyte board isnt that bad, only i´m not fully sure about those Nippon Chemi-con 10k polymer japanese capacitors... But i supose they are good since they are japanese made and graded 10K.
As you can see, the board uses a 8 phase digital pwm controler from IR. The IR3580, from which only 6 phases are used for the cpu, driven by IR3556 powerstages. The inductors (chokes) are 76A cooper bussmann's. So basicly it doesnt have a bad vrm.
I've had various problems with Gigabyte boards in the past myself, but their RMA has always worked fine for me anyway.
Random thing I found last time I was having problems, but not as bad as yours: some of the components of the board from the bottom side of the board, under the processor, were simply coming off (the connection/solder broke?) But uh... yea.
If you'd like another possible, though fairly unlikely, explanation for things suddenly not working in the board without other indications as to why: Solder hairs. These supposedly should be more common ever since most boards switched to non-lead solder, as the lead solder really was more reliable in this regard. Solder hairs are essentially extremely tiny threads of solder that come off over time, and can in theory cross with each other and cause all kinds of failures if that happens (which is why things like satellites and military equipment still use lead solder). From what I understand, it would be pretty hard to detect such a thing without specialized equipment, but I've never really tried either. Probably not the problem but, something I consider a fun, real, possibility.
My Gigabyte X99 Gaming 5p just randomly died on me last month too. Powered it off at the end of the day and next morning it was completely dead. The CPU was running at 4.125 due to 3000 MHz memory but as it was sold as an OC bundle by OCUK hey just swapped the mobo for a new one.
Not the first Gigabyte board I've used as both my brothers GA-Z77X-UD3 and my similar board have been working fine for the last 3 years. So I'm not going to dismiss them after that one instance though I do always consider all major brands when buying.
Nippon Chemi-con are actually top of the notch caps; they are so to say the ducks guts and well regarded; Even highest quality bench oscilloscopes and PSUs use them.
The MB is the most fragile part. You have hundreds of tiny wires embedded in a plastic sheet. The sheet expands and contracts with heat. One breaks and dead board. Another wire breaks and just the LAN dies. I HATE MB problems cause there is just so much to go wrong there. Sorry to hear. Sometimes the board is dead when you buy it.
