Official Gigabyte DS3 Owners Thread

[Duke]

Can anybody tell me the difference between the:
GA-965G-DS3
and the
GA-965P-DS3

thanks

The main difference is the G model has onboard graphics, the P would require a separate PCI-E graphics card

 

[Duke]

What driver are you trying (intel chipset, audio, graphics or sound?) and what error do you get?

 

[Duke]

What I want to ask is about what Loadsamoney said about Windows seeing them as "emulated PATA": the drives in question already have data on them - this "emulation" business won't corrupt the data in any way will it?

Nope it will be fine - it just 'tells' the motherboard how to use the hard disk.

Oh yeah, are there any custom overclocking BIOSes or tweaked drivers I should be aware of, like there were for older motherboards?

Not that I've seen.

 

[Duke]

The extra pin allows the motherboard to change the RPM.

 

[Duke]

Thanks for the quick replies.

Been running F12 since released
Had to up the MCH to +3V (Maximum it would let me)

And the DDR Voltage +6V to get memtest to run ok.

However it still crashes in windows XP/orthos

I also noticed it's only showing 3.25GB RAM in XP ????!!!!!

You are limited to that size with XP as it is only 32bit. You'll need XP Pro x64 edition or a 64bit version of Vista to get the whole 4GB.

 

[Duke]

Updated opening post with F13 BIOS.

(can't believe it has been 2 years now since I created this thread!)

 

[Duke]

Yeah it is but you have to include GFX memory (and few other bits) so for most people it becomes 3.25-3.50GB

 

[Duke]

When has it started doing this? Sounds like memory timings too tight or something fundamentally wrong there.

 

[Duke]

Are they the same as what you had in there before? Check the RAM volts in BIOS and the timings. You may need to up the chipset volts a notch due to the extra 2 sticks.

 

[Duke]

Wow I remember this thread