Sleep mode black screen into boot loop. Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3

[Tank997]

I got this machine 2 weeks ago with the GA-X79-UD3 (f9 bios). Since day 1 it has had a problem with sleep mode resuming to a unresponsive black screen that then proceeds to go into an endless power cycle that fails to post. The only way to stop it is a hard shut down with the power button. Sometimes the computer will resume from S3 properly, other times it will resume to black screen and loop. It is literally a 50-50 chance. And the timing it decides to fail S3 resume are totally random. Sometimes it will wake fine after an entire night of sleep other times it wont even sleep for 30 minutes without manually waking to a blank screen and reboot loop.

I have literally tinkered with EVERY imaginable setting in my Windows power options to try and fix this, nothing has worked. At all. I recently did a Energy-Report (with cmd) and it gave me 12 errors, 3 for USB devices and 7 errors for items listed in this picture which i have no clue what they actually are, even after researching them on google which provided little info.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. As of now my settings for idle are to never allow my computer to sleep and I just have it set to turn the display and hard drives off after a certain time, with the machine staying on. At night I shut it down to s5 (which i hate) but i have no other option really. I dont want it drawing fulll power for 10-12 hours of non-use. ANY help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[DavidE]

It looks like there is a newer BIOS (F10) on the Gigabyte website.
Try updating your BIOS.
Make sure this is the right support page for your MB.

GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket 2011 - GA-X79-UD3 (rev. 1.0)

 

[Robmoo]

Ever find a solution to this problem? My PC with this MB is doing the same thing. I may ditch the Gigabyte MB and pick up an Asus. We may also be using the same monitor. I have a Samsung SyncMaster 2333 and I saw in one of your posts that you are also using a Samsung SyncMaster.

 

[Robmoo]

I solved the problem! I swapped out the GA-X79-UD3 for a Sabertooth X79. Problem solved! The only difficulty I have now is that I was actually using 9 of the 10 Sata ports on the Gigabyte board. I don't really need the 2.5 SSD dock on the top of my DF-30. 4 SSD in a Raid 0 and a 3 bay hot swap dock take up a lot of sata ports. I use this PC for transcoding video and backing up all the media I have on my HTPC/media server.

 

[Lunarcy]

I got this machine 2 weeks ago with the GA-X79-UD3 (f9 bios). Since day 1 it has had a problem with sleep mode resuming to a unresponsive black screen that then proceeds to go into an endless power cycle that fails to post. The only way to stop it is a hard shut down with the power button. Sometimes the computer will resume from S3 properly, other times it will resume to black screen and loop. It is literally a 50-50 chance. And the timing it decides to fail S3 resume are totally random. Sometimes it will wake fine after an entire night of sleep other times it wont even sleep for 30 minutes without manually waking to a blank screen and reboot loop.

I have literally tinkered with EVERY imaginable setting in my Windows power options to try and fix this, nothing has worked. At all. I recently did a Energy-Report (with cmd) and it gave me 12 errors, 3 for USB devices and 7 errors for items listed in this picture which i have no clue what they actually are, even after researching them on google which provided little info.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. As of now my settings for idle are to never allow my computer to sleep and I just have it set to turn the display and hard drives off after a certain time, with the machine staying on. At night I shut it down to s5 (which i hate) but i have no other option really. I dont want it drawing fulll power for 10-12 hours of non-use. ANY help would be greatly appreciated.

I've got exactly the same problem. I'm running the latest Bios (f10). I've tried experimenting by putting it into sleep mode or waiting for it to sleep automatically, but I can't recreate the problem. It only happens if I fall asleep and try and wake the computer the next day. No idea. But I assume it must be a Bios problem as it begins to loop before loading windows. Glad I'm not the only one!

 

[generalhelaman]

Same problem, f10 bios

I have had the board about 3 weeks and it does the same thing. I thought maybe it was a hibernation issue, but when I turned off hibernation and only had it sleeping it still does the same thing, when it's been asleep for a while I will come back to the room and it will be in a reboot loop. I look forward to any suggested solutions.

 

[CrazyKot]

I got this machine 2 weeks ago with the GA-X79-UD3 (f9 bios)........

Hi Tank997! I have the same problem! You have found a solution?

 

[Robmoo]

So far I think I've found the only solution. I like Gigabyte, but I'm not sure I'll buy another board after this problem.

 

[CrazyKot]

I found a problem! This is my ddr ram G.skill not supported in this motherboard.
G.SKILL-Products

 

[TheAntColony]

CrazyKot, can you confirm that switching out the ram modules solved your problem?

And have any of the other people in this thread had any success? I appear to have the same problem with my Gigabyte G1.Assassin 2 motherboard.

 

[CrazyKot]

TheAntColony, Unfortunately I can not confirm. That's I learned on the support forum gigabyte. I need another dd3 memory for testing.

 

[maxima]

I have similar problem. I build new PC on i7 3820, GA-X79-UD3 (bios v 11), GSkillz RipjawZ K4 1600Mhz, Samsung 840 Pro SSD.

The PC does not wake up properly. It shows login screen and after you type password it hangs. Sometime for long time with following BSOD 0x000000F4 and sometime just hangs.

The PC is not overclocked.

This particular RAM is now supported in bios 11.

The X79 storage controlled set to RAID.

The system disk is SSD and a single drive, the other drive is RAID1 with 2 regular HDDs.

My hunch is that the sleep problem somehow related to the Intel RSTe drivers. But I couldn't find the way to reinstall them (I have installed them from the Intel website rather than the Gigabyte).

P.S. I tried this : http://dri.ibuypower.com/tm.aspx?m=80008&mpage=1 (C1E etc)
and this: http://www.tonymacx86.com/golden-builds/73112-updated-storks-thunderbolt-build-i5-3570k-ga-z77x-up5-th-gtx-650-ti-mountain-lion-27.html (XCHI)...

nothing worked... I use hibernate instead (bummer!)