Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

well i bought the ds3, i put it in a thermaltake armour tower and applied the scythe ninja altho i found no room to install the fan, it ran at 32 degrees without load and hasnt been overclocked yet.

also bought the bfg8800gts man this is one huge card, im a little worried as it sits on top of the cmos and the fan of the card covers the south heatsink (which supposedly gets a little hot) :eek:

also the ninjas corners are sitting above the north heatsink

i could see problems arising in my graphics card overheating, the system lasted 2 days after a lengthy shot on bf2, I came to turn it on the next morning and noticed my enermax infiniti wasnt supplying any power, so ive rma'd that.

thing is im a little worried that rising temps which shouldnt be an issue with the armour killed my psu, ive scanned through the manual and i came across this:

When using a 2x12 power supply, remove the protective cover from the main power connector on the motherboard.

the infiniti has a chunky 24 main power connector, is this the same as a 2x12?

i cannot see a protective cover on the motherboard did any of you guys have to remove such a thing?

i just have the usual white square block of 24 holes, have i connected rightly i assume :confused:

any help is appreciated
thanks
fonzio
 
Anyone care to enlighten me on how I make the sound come out the front connector? I've got my case connected to the front AC97 header on the board, but I can't make sound come out there instead of the digital connections round the back. Book's sending me to a screen that's not there.

Anyone?

Cheers
 
Ol!ver said:
Anyone care to enlighten me on how I make the sound come out the front connector? I've got my case connected to the front AC97 header on the board, but I can't make sound come out there instead of the digital connections round the back. Book's sending me to a screen that's not there.

Anyone?

Cheers
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A screen in BIOS? If so try pressing Ctrl+F1 to reveal new options :)
 
BEn_2600+ said:
A screen in BIOS? If so try pressing Ctrl+F1 to reveal new options :)
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No, in the Gigabyte software in windows.

Figured it out now though, there's a tick box that says 'Disable front panel jack detection' Ticking that sorts it. Would have thought it would be the other way round.
 
Disk order in BIOS and Manager are ****-eyed??

Can anyone explain a couple of thigns to me here...

I have currently got the following drives in my DS3

80GB Hitachi ( Drive 0 - C: + T: )
80GH Hitachi ( Drive 1 - M: )
250GB WD ( Drive 2 - D:+ F: )
250GB WD ( Drive 3 - E: )

Now, these are all using the 4 orange ports right, this is leaving the 2 purple ones alone.

Thats cool, its workign just peachy and I have XP64 on it and its as I like it just fine.

Now, I am having Vista another shot, I was given the 32 and 64 bit upgrade package last night for a tenner ( Well, you would wouldnt you ) so naturally I wanted to give 64Bit Vista a play with ( Already got 32bit Ultimate and Business stuffed in the drawer ).

Now, I added a 36GB Raptor as my C: and so, I moved the second 80GB drive to a purple port and the first drive to the second port, so that would make my Raptor be the first port and therefore C: and the WinxP64 C:+T: drive woul;d then be seen as the second drive ( Im doing a fresh install with the upgrade disk you see and I need Vista to see the XP64 installation straight off.

It did just this, so my HDs are now in this order accordign to the BIOS:-

0 = Raptor
1 = 80GB Hitachi
2 = 250GB WD
3 = 250GB WD
4 = 80GB Hitachi
5 = empty

This is fine, this is what I expected it to be and its how I wanted it to be.

Now, if I go into the Disk Manager in Vista, Drive C:( Raptor ) is the second drive with disk 4 ( 80GB ) is the first???

So, its putting the 80GB off the purple port first?

Ok, so I swap them over ( Always making sure the Raptor is the booting drive by the way ) but now the raptor is Drive 4???

Ok, so, I put all the drives back to their original place, and I reinstall WinXP just quickly ( Remembering the my XP64 setup is untouched and indeed Im back on that right now ) and I see the Disk Manager sees the disks as they need to be, the BIOS sees them *** same order and I upgrade to vista from there, thinking that the disks will be seen in the same order that the BIOS sees them, and that XP sees them, but no, Im back to square one?

I did one last try with NOT having the extra drives in and I went for the vista clean install trick which Im happy to say worked, but as I added the drives back again, I could not for the life of me get drive C: to show up in the Disk Manager as the first drive??? - No mtter what order I have them in the BIOS, or what order I set to boot from or anything????

Its driving me nuts.

As I said, under XP64 its spot on but under Vista its all ****-eyed.

Not that it matters with how well it performas or anything, its only for me, but I hate the way its doing this and I cant work like that... I had it a while back with another system and it was like a grain of sand up my RS - it got to me and I eventually flipped and I just kicked the PC out of the house and brought another one down.

Anyone got any thoughts or ideas for me to try?
 
hello,

It's been long time since the last time I was on here. I have a quick question about overclocking with 4gb of gskill ram on xp. I know that 500mb arent being used because of it being 32bit but i just want to know if there is anything special i need to do when i overclock with 4 sticks of ram on a ds3? Currently the fsb of the e6300 is at stock so I just raise the fsb to 400 and make sure the mem matchs the fsb right? i'm just making sure so i dont mess antying up. thanks in advance.
 
jtien2 said:
hello,

It's been long time since the last time I was on here. I have a quick question about overclocking with 4gb of gskill ram on xp. I know that 500mb arent being used because of it being 32bit but i just want to know if there is anything special i need to do when i overclock with 4 sticks of ram on a ds3? Currently the fsb of the e6300 is at stock so I just raise the fsb to 400 and make sure the mem matchs the fsb right? i'm just making sure so i dont mess antying up. thanks in advance.
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You should have no issues running the 4gb at its stock speed. Tho you *may* need to give the chipset voltages a tiny nudge.
 
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I've tried pressing ctrl and F1, the Txt flashes but nothing new comes up. Or is the new stuff in the settings pages?

Also, I've pressed ctrl and F1 and had a look in the page with the DDR settings and I can't see anything for DDR voltages. The only thing I can see is 'DDR overvoltage control' and it goes up in 0.1 increments. Is this it?
 
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