Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

Thanks, it's working fine apart from it still taking a couple of secs to start spinning at boot...


On an unrelated question, the Intel SATA driver claims my system does not meet the minimum specifications to install it! WHat gives???

The Gigabyte driver otoh installs fine....
 
vista keeps telling me during install it could not determine if this computer contains a valid system volume

Ive tried 3 hard drives on numerous different sata ports and i still keep getting that error

Any help guys would be much appreciated
 
It seems that its getting to the part where Vista shoses the Drive / Partition to use, but cannot find the drive at all?

Make sure that the Drive is visible in the BIOS, also do make sure that cables are properly connected.

And, have a look at what mode you are trying to access the drive in too!

If you are trying some form of RAID setup, then you are doing something wrong... Perhaps its as simple as the RAID Drivers not present for example.

Let us know how you have setup the drives and what the BIOS says about them.

Or, just use one HD and reset the BIOS and see what it says then...
 
vista sees the drives fine, it allows me to create a partition and format the drive/'s

when i click next to start installing windows thats when the problem starts

i now get a problem were windows says it cannot load the winload.exe to even start vista
 
Can the experts in here please take a look at my other thread where I describe the problems I have turning off on-board audio? I've got a load of stability problems which I've traced to this issue (through looking at the memory dump reports and checking the name of the driver).
 
Got the new GA-EP45-DS3 on friday along with an e8400 and 2GB Geil Blackdragon 6400. This board still has problems with undervolting the RAM - it wouldn't boot reliably and would crash when loading windows with both sticks in and the voltage set to auto. Ran fine on one stick, so I updated bios to v.6a with no change. Had to manually set to 2v, and correct timings.

I hadn't read this (or the other DS3 thread), so I didn't know undervolting was an ongoing issue with these boards, I would have thought it would have been fixed on newer boards?
 
I didn't even notice any problems and I've got my RAM overclocked at stock Vdimm (3 sticks of Ballistix, 1.8V for these sticks). System seems to pass several hours of Memtest, the odd BSOD I get while gaming seems to be due to the Ati display driver. Do you reckon it's actually RAM corruption and the driver is just an innocent scapegoat? I'll try to manually set it to 2V (Balllistix is apparently rated up to 2.1V) to see if stability will be improved.
 
neogramps said:
Got the new GA-EP45-DS3 on friday along with an e8400 and 2GB Geil Blackdragon 6400. This board still has problems with undervolting the RAM - it wouldn't boot reliably and would crash when loading windows with both sticks in and the voltage set to auto. Ran fine on one stick, so I updated bios to v.6a with no change. Had to manually set to 2v, and correct timings.

I hadn't read this (or the other DS3 thread), so I didn't know undervolting was an ongoing issue with these boards, I would have thought it would have been fixed on newer boards?
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Hi, it doesn't 'undervolt' the RAM, it correctly boots at the JDEC standard of 1.8V on AUTO with the JDEC default timings of 5-5-5-18. If you have performance RAM you must manually set the RAM timings. There isn't a motherboard on the market that doesn't do this. This is what they're supposed to do to ensure compatability with all types of RAM.
 
What cpu coolers are you guys using. Thought this would be best place to ask as some are big and you goes will know what doesn't fit. Also I have a P180 so it has to fit in there. And I have dominater ram which stands quite high. Reason I'm asking is that my freezer 7 is running my q6600 quite hot.
 
I had a freezer 7 too!
The Stupid alu NB Cooler was permanently getting too hot - felt like my fingers were melting if I touched it and I went back to a stock cooler, but that was a half-cure in that the CPU gained a few C but at least the NB was being cooled a tad.

Currently running a Titan Vanessa in a Thermaltake Armour case, so 120mm either side, and plenty of windy-poos blowing over the NB Cooler too!
 
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