Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

Cob · 20 Apr 2007 at 16:28

TomL said:
God help me for not using the search feature...

Is anyone getting their overclocks reset when restarting their machine on bios F10? I'm running 400x7 and whenever I restart the machine it'll switch it back to 266 but retain all other settings and I'm getting slightly annoyed

F10 has been solid for me. Seems to be about the best BIOS yet.

s9yk2k · 21 Apr 2007 at 01:33

TomL said:
God help me for not using the search feature...

Is anyone getting their overclocks reset when restarting their machine on bios F10? I'm running 400x7 and whenever I restart the machine it'll switch it back to 266 but retain all other settings and I'm getting slightly annoyed

i'm getting the same problem with the F10 bio

C64 · 21 Apr 2007 at 06:16

sounds like Unstable overclock you need at least +01 ram +0.1 chipset
+0.1 fsb and for 3ghz i'd go for at least 1.35 volts.Also i've found that 400 fsb
and overclock requires much more volts like 1.40 volts.

Buffalo2102 · 21 Apr 2007 at 10:49

F10 is rock stable for me at 486FSB

Cob · 21 Apr 2007 at 17:12

F11b has been knocking about for a few days. It's a beta, but it's meant to be solid.

FatRakoon · 24 Apr 2007 at 16:49

C64 said:
sounds like Unstable overclock you need at least +01 ram +0.1 chipset
+0.1 fsb and for 3ghz i'd go for at least 1.35 volts.Also i've found that 400 fsb
and overclock requires much more volts like 1.40 volts.

Im still using the F7 BIOS - never seen the need to replace a perfect BIOS with an unknown.

Since F8 I have read about him or her having certain issues with this or that BIOS... Its just kind of put me off

For 400FSB I keep my Volts all stock, but the RAM at +.3 and it does 3.0GHZ perfectly fine with the CPU @ 1.3v

For > 430FSB, the CPU tends to lean towards prefering around the 1.35v but it never needs 1.4 until I'm well over 450FSB

At the present, Im running 500FSB ( 3.5Ghz ) @ 1.45v and its been prime Stable for 2 days so far... Even if a tad warm.

Its not really THAT much quicker anyway... Not really, until of ocurse Im converting DVDs etc, but then, I do that overnight anyway, so I will be knocking it down to 400FSB ( 2.8 ) so save its life a little.

VeNT · 25 Apr 2007 at 01:18

ok someone want to tell me whats supposed to be better with the new drivers and new bios

FatRakoon · 25 Apr 2007 at 02:54

VeNT said:
ok someone want to tell me whats supposed to be better with the new drivers and new bios

F10 "Enhances FSB Flexibility" ????

Erm? - Didnt you know that? - Yeah, and the New drivers do stuff... The older ones didnt do that stuff, but the new ones do.

Seriously though, I dont have a clue myself. The latest Drivers I have are March last month, they didnt seem to do a thing on the previous ones, and in fact a small test a few months back, I decided to test the CD drivers against a set downloaded and found absolutely no difference what-so-ever except that with the C DDrivers, the Windows update would find an update for them, while the downloaded ones did not ( At the time )

Everythign seemed to run 100% identical, stability was the same, and everything was, well... The same.

Im on the F7 BIOS, its rock solid for me so no intention of upping it unless I have to! - See post a couple above.

WJA96 · 25 Apr 2007 at 08:03

VeNT said:
ok someone want to tell me whats supposed to be better with the new drivers and new bios

Often the new updates are only there to support new CPUs like the E4400 or the 6230/6240 CPUs. Potentially, there could be no benefit to you at all.

Richdog · 25 Apr 2007 at 08:54

The other day I was swapping a new E6600 into my DS3 and all went as usual. I booted up and... nothing. Well not quite nothing, the fans powered on and then all of a sudden where you'd expect to hear the boot beep, the GPU fan went onto full and the system stayed exactly like that.

I've tried all BIOS reset methods, tested each stick of RAM individually in every slot, even put my old CPU back in to test... and no joy... it does the exact same thing each time.

WJA96 · 25 Apr 2007 at 08:58

Richdog said:
The other day I was swapping a new E6600 into my DS3 and all went as usual. I booted up and... nothing. Well not quite nothing, the fans powered on and then all of a sudden where you'd expect to hear the boot beep, the GPU fan went onto full and the system stayed exactly like that.

I've tried all BIOS reset methods, tested each stick of RAM individually in every slot, even put my old CPU back in to test... and no joy... it does the exact same thing each time.

I've had this symptom twice now and both times it's been the graphics cards that have failed. They were both NVidia 7900 series cards if that rings a bell?

TomL · 25 Apr 2007 at 12:52

WJA96 said:
I've had this symptom twice now and both times it's been the graphics cards that have failed. They were both NVidia 7900 series cards if that rings a bell?

To be honest this was happening to my system when I first put it together and I believe it's due to pins being shorted somewhere, eg on the underside of the CPU socket caused by a HSF backplate...

FatRakoon · 25 Apr 2007 at 14:22

Yeah, I will go with the backplate too!

The GFX Card might be enough to have moved the plate, but the gap is already pube-thin as it is.

Duke · 25 Apr 2007 at 19:50

Cob said:
F11b has been knocking about for a few days. It's a beta, but it's meant to be solid.

Any info on this? The Gigabyte site has it, but it just seems to be a cpu model update?

TomL · 25 Apr 2007 at 20:33

Anyone reckon if running my system while it was being shorted may've permanantly damaged it? I think it might be the reason behind my RAM not taking +0.3v without failing, and the fact my soundcard has SCP - and the fact one of my JMICRON SATA ports seems to stop working sometimes, using RAID-0 is a scarey endevour on this system atm.

Out of 10 I give my first £1000+ system building experience, a 2 - very depressing.

Richdog · 26 Apr 2007 at 09:38

TomL said:
To be honest this was happening to my system when I first put it together and I believe it's due to pins being shorted somewhere, eg on the underside of the CPU socket caused by a HSF backplate...

That sounds like a real contender for the solution...

One question, does this mean that mobo is still fine if I reseat the backplate and HSF?

Tried two graphics cards with same results... definately not both dead.

EDIT - Definately seems to be the backplate, just did a load of Googling and tons of people have had this same problem. Going to grab some leccy tape and fix it later, woo-hoo!

Oh and another question, if I was to replace it with a DS3P would there be any real problem just booting up into windows with it without re-installing? It's not too much different to the DS3 I think.

NightSt@lk3r · 26 Apr 2007 at 16:01

Richdog said:
Oh and another question, if I was to replace it with a DS3P would there be any real problem just booting up into windows with it without re-installing? It's not too much different to the DS3 I think.

i went from an asrock 939-dualsata2 with the ULi Chipset to the 965P-S3 and xp booted up first time, installed drivers rebooted and job done, so 2 boards using the same chipset should have no issues.

TomL · 26 Apr 2007 at 22:24

TomL said:
Anyone reckon if running my system while it was being shorted may've permanantly damaged it? I think it might be the reason behind my RAM not taking +0.3v without failing, and the fact my soundcard has SCP - and the fact one of my JMICRON SATA ports seems to stop working sometimes, using RAID-0 is a scarey endevour on this system atm.

Out of 10 I give my first £1000+ system building experience, a 2 - very depressing.

If anyone could provide an answer or opinion on this I will give you a beer.

WJA96 · 26 Apr 2007 at 22:29

TomL said:
If anyone could provide an answer or opinion on this I will give you a beer.

I'll let you slide on the beverage, but it does sound like you ****** it.

naudiz · 27 Apr 2007 at 11:14

Since this is a DS3 thread, thought I may as well ask here. Am running an E6300, (see sig), and so far I've got it to 2Ghz stable, gaming and stressing all run fine. However when I turn my PC off over night and turn it back on in the morning it usually won't boot, and I have to clear the CMOS to get it working. Anyone got any ideas?

Naud