Bios F5 for P35 DQ6 Fault!!!!

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I would recommend you do not upgrade your bios to F5 at the moment , I did the upgrade yesterday and it seemed fine, this morning the pc would not boot , it just powered up and the down in a continuous cycle. Occasionally it will boot but then may fail on the next boot and go into the power up down cycle again. I managed to get it to boot and downloaded F4 bios back onto it and now its working normally again.

There seems to be the same faults occuring on other manufacturers motherboards.
 
Strangly enough this happened to my GA P35C DS3R when I updated the bios to the latest F4 bios 3 weeks ago. 2 days ago it crashed and refused to boot. Powering itself on and off in a continuous cycle, RMA'ed it to Overclockers. Few other people have reported this on other sites too.
 
the update seems nice!! will leave it a week or two then before updating, will keep my F5L Beta atm then!


Thanks for the heads up
 
malachi said:
Strangly enough this happened to my GA P35C DS3R when I updated the bios to the latest F4 bios 3 weeks ago. 2 days ago it crashed and refused to boot. Powering itself on and off in a continuous cycle, RMA'ed it to Overclockers. Few other people have reported this on other sites too.

Mine went into the same on/off cycle and I tried wiping the cmos and still it did the same, I ended up stripping the machine down to just the motherboard and still the same happened, I was worried I might have fried the QX6850 so I then replaced it with an older pentium and it booted. I then replaced the QX6850 and it booted successfully only to then go back into the on/off cycle on a subsequent boot.

I replace all the cards and drives and I kept trying and eventually got it to boot so quickly flashed the bios back ti f4 and its been stable since, although it did something to mess up one of my raid 0 arrays.

Another thing I couldnt resolve was that after install the F5 and I managed to get it to boot initially after the upgrade bios a new unknown device was being reported and I couldnt find what it was and unable to locate any drivers for it.
 
Thorne said:
Mine went into the same on/off cycle and I tried wiping the cmos and still it did the same, I ended up stripping the machine down to just the motherboard and still the same happened, I was worried I might have fried the QX6850 so I then replaced it with an older pentium and it booted. I then replaced the QX6850 and it booted successfully only to then go back into the on/off cycle on a subsequent boot.

I replace all the cards and drives and I kept trying and eventually got it to boot so quickly flashed the bios back ti f4 and its been stable since, although it did something to mess up one of my raid 0 arrays.

Another thing I couldnt resolve was that after install the F5 and I managed to get it to boot initially after the upgrade bios a new unknown device was being reported and I couldnt find what it was and unable to locate any drivers for it.

I had an Q6600 in mine but was unable to test another CPU as I only had a Pentium 4 3.06 which this board doesnt support. Overclockers have sent my replacement, so wont be updating the bios on that one.
 
If you had a problem with this new BIOS can you confirm if you're running a 1.0 or 1.1 revision of the board?
 
Just got my motherboard back and Im getting straight on the phone to overclockers in the morning. Been sent a *B grade* replacement GA P35C DS3R. Box was damaged, all cables were opened, I/O shield is missing plus the SATA signal and SATA cable. Heat sink was hanging off the motherboard, which I have clipped back in. Decided to try the motherboard out anyway hoping Overclockers could send me the missing parts through the post and the motherboard doesnt work anyway :mad:
 
My motherboard sometimes does the same when I try a OC setting which it does not like, to get out of this loop I simply turn the computers power supply to off when it turns on, wait a few sec and then turn it back on and power on the computer.
 
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