Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

Duke · 25 May 2007 at 20:36

The Core 2's do run toasty when overclocked, but are perfectly stable still which is great.

Whitter · 27 May 2007 at 07:32

Since last night my DS3 is failing to post. I restarted my machine and it just hung on the line where is says the totatl amount of memory in the system, just below the CPU info. It just has "Memory " and just sits there.

I reset the BIOS but that did seem to have an effect other than to enabling the Gigabyte splash screen so I cannot see whats going on.

I have no clue as to what is wrong.

ANDARIAL · 27 May 2007 at 09:45

Whitter said:
Since last night my DS3 is failing to post. I restarted my machine and it just hung on the line where is says the totatl amount of memory in the system, just below the CPU info. It just has "Memory " and just sits there.

I reset the BIOS but that did seem to have an effect other than to enabling the Gigabyte splash screen so I cannot see whats going on.

I have no clue as to what is wrong.

try removing one mem stick at a time and rebooting.
might be a dodgy stick of ram

Whitter · 27 May 2007 at 10:30

Just had a go at switch the DIMMs around and no diffrence.

I should be getting some beeps but nothing is coming out my speakers.

ANDARIAL · 27 May 2007 at 10:56

did you try one dimm at a time?
if not try that

Whitter · 27 May 2007 at 12:11

Yeah, but I think I have the problem.

Seems to be a power issue. If I have all my USB devices plugged in on boot up it fails.

I've had this Seasonic M12 600w since December, and what ever happened happened last night when I was installing a nvidia driver. The installation was taking longer than normal and the system crash when trying to restart and when I rebooted it failed. So I guess its yet other PSU in the bin.

Thanks for the help ANDARIAL.

Whitter · 27 May 2007 at 12:11

Double post.

WJA96 · 27 May 2007 at 12:21

Whitter said:
Yeah, but I think I have the problem.

Seems to be a power issue. If I have all my USB devices plugged in on boot up it fails.

I've had this Seasonic M12 600w since December, and what ever happened happened last night when I was installing a nvidia driver. The installation was taking longer than normal and the system crash when trying to restart and when I rebooted it failed. So I guess its yet other PSU in the bin.

Thanks for the help ANDARIAL.

If you've only had it since last December then don't bin it, RMA it - they're quality kit and their back-up is excellent - you'll get a new one, and you can either keep that or sell it.

ANDARIAL · 27 May 2007 at 21:54

seconded
RMA it it will still be under warrenty

evilhomer · 31 May 2007 at 14:20

Gigabyte 965p DS3 power problems

Guys, sorry to bother your thread with this but it seemed most appropriate.

Have recently upgraded to this board with a conroe 6600 and 2 x 1GB Geil Ultra low latency 6400 ram.

Have flashed to bios F11, and have no complaints about the normal running of the pc, however.

Standby and shutdown are causing me grief. Standby goes to a point where the computer seems to have full power, fans the works, and no display. When I try to wake the computer back up it does nothing.

Shut down seems to succesfully complete to the point where any normal computer would then turn off power... mine doesn't. It remains in limbo with output to the monitor thats is completey blank, but signal sent nonetheless. I know i'm probably being a berk, but is there a bios setting, or driver issue i've missed? in both cases i have to manually power the comp off... the suspend scenario causing a 'windows was incorrectly turned off' error.

peetee · 31 May 2007 at 14:43

did you do a clean install of window when upgrading to the new mobo cpu+ram?
Happened to me in the past on windows installs that were on there last legs.

mac · 31 May 2007 at 14:53

might have to look in the APM tab in power options - see if its set to automaticaly shut down. this is assuming your in windows xp. i had that problem once with an abit Kd7 board...

evilhomer · 31 May 2007 at 15:03

Sorry forgot to mention. Clean install of Vista 32 bit business.
Have had a look through the power management with no obvious problems afaik. I'll have another dig now

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[TR]SweetSpotOz · 31 May 2007 at 15:08

The option is in the BIOS. Happened to me too.

You want to change an option to "S3" suspend, rather than S1, I think. It is in Power Management in the BIOS.

evilhomer · 31 May 2007 at 15:25

Nice thanks for that have seen that setting and will give it ago

plasmahal · 31 May 2007 at 21:49

plasmahal said:
I had another play with the overclocking last night. I ran cpu-z and intel TAT to monitor temps.

When set 100% load on the TAT, i hit 69-70 deg's on the 2 cores, a tad hot but it was stable.

Must mean that when gaming the cpu gets nowhere near 100% load as the temps after playing are around the 40 deg mark.

I think i will invest in a arctic cooling 775 cooler to run this overclock over an extended time.

And whne i get time this weekend amongst a BBQ, beers and Battlefield 2 then i'll sort out a fan for the NB heatsink.

Got the arctic cooling freezer 7 pro today and just installed it and a 1000 times easier to fit than the stock intel fan/heatsink.

all settings on stock.

Temps before:

nominal: 30 28
100% load : 54 52

Temps with freezer pro:

nominal: 27 25
100% load: 42 41

Not a massive difference on nominal but very good for 100% load.

Next some overclocking.............

FatRakoon · 31 May 2007 at 22:25

plasmahal said:
Got the arctic cooling freezer 7 pro today and just installed it and a 1000 times easier to fit than the stock intel fan/heatsink.

Easier???

EASIER???

I found it to be a total pain!

I could get any 3 of the legs in, but on trying the 4th, Id find one of the others would pop out all the time.

Im still not totally convinced that I have done a good enough job, although its been in there are working fine for a fair while now, I must have done... Still... I cant help but feel that one day its just going to pop off.

plasmahal said:
Not a massive difference on nominal but very good for 100% load.

No, I will say that I am very happy with the Artic Freezers all *** same.

I got a Pro and a non-pro for Socket 939, they are about on par with the Stock cooler from the FX55 although I think Id probably edge *** stock cooler a notch higher due to the build quality of it, but also on the NON-Pro AF64 the fan blows towards the back, and the Pro64 it blows upwards... This leaves very little room from the top of the Graphics card on a number of my boards and has been a limiting factor.

The Non-Pro caused no end of issues with my Neo2 ( Main Board at the time ) especially as my PSU was an Ultra-X Connect and this caused the Floppy / IDE / PSU cables to bunch up and stopthe fan from spinning ( Cured with Cable Ties )

The DS3 now has one, and its fine, its doing an ok job, but thats all it does... And ok job. It will be replaced soon enough.

kaw · 1 Jun 2007 at 02:10

FatRakoon said:
Easier???

EASIER???

I found it to be a total pain!

I could get any 3 of the legs in, but on trying the 4th, Id find one of the others would pop out all the time.

Im still not totally convinced that I have done a good enough job, although its been in there are working fine for a fair while now, I must have done... Still... I cant help but feel that one day its just going to pop off.

No, I will say that I am very happy with the Artic Freezers all *** same.

I got a Pro and a non-pro for Socket 939, they are about on par with the Stock cooler from the FX55 although I think Id probably edge *** stock cooler a notch higher due to the build quality of it, but also on the NON-Pro AF64 the fan blows towards the back, and the Pro64 it blows upwards... This leaves very little room from the top of the Graphics card on a number of my boards and has been a limiting factor.

The Non-Pro caused no end of issues with my Neo2 ( Main Board at the time ) especially as my PSU was an Ultra-X Connect and this caused the Floppy / IDE / PSU cables to bunch up and stopthe fan from spinning ( Cured with Cable Ties )

The DS3 now has one, and its fine, its doing an ok job, but thats all it does... And ok job. It will be replaced soon enough.

Try fitting a Scythe Mine B. Had to take mobo out and the psu, just so I could see what I was doing.
As for the Arctic, on my 754 Asus board it has managed to snap TWO retension brackets so far.

FatRakoon · 1 Jun 2007 at 03:10

kaw said:
Try fitting a Scythe Mine B. Had to take mobo out and the psu, just so I could see what I was doing.
As for the Arctic, on my 754 Asus board it has managed to snap TWO retension brackets so far.

LOL

I have done mate... The Ninja.

Not me own although its a bit of a nice cooler Ill give it that

Taking the Mobo out? - Sure on Intels 775 Boards, but not on 754/939 surely, or have I missed something?

Artic snapping the brackets... Ah, yeah, mine has done that on one of my boards... The Neo4 I think? - perhaps the Asus K8N... Will ahve to look to check, but originally, it was not the Freezer64 that did it, but the Stock 4600 Cooler as that only clips on by one lug at each end. Im using the Freezer64 on that now because that goes over all 3 each side, or in my case, 3 on one side and 2 on the other.

For the recention bracket to break, and given the super-flimsy feel of the Artic Freezers, I recon you have broken the lugs bybrute force... Cos the Freezers I dont think are up to anythgin more than bending soft putty.

WJA96 · 1 Jun 2007 at 05:43

Definitely sounds like someone needs to cut back on the caffeine if you're snapping things.