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UD3H-B3 dead, I think.... need new mobo, suggestions?

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This board has probably been the worst experience I've ever had with Gigabyte. And today I think the board finally died. Came back down to my pc after lunch to see a BSOD. Rebooted the machine and it just hung at the bios splash screen. So I tried reboot a couple times hoping it would kick over to the other bios, never happened. So I cleared cmos, and on first boot it went straight to a CMOS Checksum error screen with options to choose yet I couldn't select anything and then it just rebooted again (options were factory reset, last known good config, driver level format, prep for new flash).

Needless to say, I haven't been able to get it past bios or even into bios.

So, what are some good options for motherboards these days for a 2600k for less then $200?
 
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Looks like I can get a P8Z68-V/GEN3 for around $133 a/r. Anything better around that price or up to $200 ish?
 
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re-flash the bios, reset CMOS, and see what happens.
 
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It doesn't boot up far enough in to let me re-flash the bios and at that CMOS Checksum error screen no input devices work for me to select the flash option.
 
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P8Z68M-Pro should be great board,
or if you dont like mATX go for the P8Z68-V Pro
 
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Why don't you just get a Z77 board instead of waisting time on a Z68
 
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Was able to use an old ms ps/2 keyboard to go through the options (none of my newer mechanical keyboards with ps/2 worked....) on the CMOS Checksum error and flashed bios F12 in dos from a burned cd. And it's working again.
 
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Flak said:
Was able to use an old ms ps/2 keyboard to go through the options (none of my newer mechanical keyboards with ps/2 worked....) on the CMOS Checksum error and flashed bios F12 in dos from a burned cd. And it's working again.
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I was about to mention to use a PS/2 keyboard cause sometimes USB does not get detected. I would continue to monitor the stability of the board and BTW what was the stop code of the BSOD you had before the bios issues?
 
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The BSOD screen didn't fully load, it stopped at IRQ_NO, lol
 
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Flak said:
The BSOD screen didn't fully load, it stopped at IRQ_NO, lol
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Hmmm. Well just monitor the stability of the board and if you are still in the market for a board, the Z77 line has been known to OC SB/IB cpu's with less voltage.
 
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