Renzatic on 22/10/2016 at 20:01
That was the first thing I did when I got it up and running yesterday, long before I flashed the firmware (wish I could say flash the BIOS, but I gotta be technically correct here, or else I'll look dumber than I already do :P).
All I can do now is wait and see how it all goes.
voodoo47 on 23/10/2016 at 15:51
don't we all.
Sulphur on 23/10/2016 at 16:13
A firmware issue did cause my mobo to not recognise SATA ports 3 and 4, but that was an out-of-the-box experience that was rectified when I flashed it with the latest version. Haven't had issues since. There was also the one time I re-seated the CPU on my old mobo after putting some new TP on for the heat sink, but the weight must've bent a pin or two when I put it back on, because the system stopped reading the second DIMM bank after that. The things you learn from experience.
I can't begin to speculate how this could be just a random BIOS issue, unless there was an automatic firmware update running in the background at the same time you had a power surge, but I haven't heard of a system that auto-flashes your BIOS. Best be wary, I suppose.
Renzatic on 23/10/2016 at 17:17
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http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2737592/issue-gigabyte-gaming-z97x.html) I found this after some digging around on the internet. This guy is experiencing almost exactly the same thing as what I went through. The biggest difference is he noticed the problem from first boot, while mine had worked fine since the day I built it in May 2015 until this last Thursday, when it decided to flake out for no reason.
The only thing I figure is that either there was some problem with a previous bios rev that didn't bother me until some weird stars happened to align just right that flashing to the latest BIOS version fixed, or something had slowly come unsoldered due to heat and time, and I happened to apply pressure in just the right place on that last attempt to reseat my ram, making the bios flash solution entirely coincidental. I can't even claim it could've been BIOS setting or voltage conflict, because I went through and checked to see if everything was as I left it after flashing it.
All I can say is that it didn't work before, and now it does, though I'm far from being 100% sure as to why.
