*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

[Herradura]

How would I go about removing the chipset heatsinks from my mobo so I may apply AS5? I cant seem to figure out how because it is a push mins not screws.

 

[rdp6]

cello,

I just built a pc with this mobo and a seagate sata hdd and a sata burner. I left the hard drive option on the default IDE mode, put the XP (with sp2) install disk in and everything just worked: no need to load any other drivers. I was surprised, thought that having SATA devices would require a temporary floppy drive/sneakernet driver installation.

Is your XP install disk clean/scratch-free?
Maybe some of your ram is bad, try using just one stick (assuming you have more than one)...
Perhaps a power issue... noisy line/subpar psu?

Good luck,

Bob

 

[imported_cello]

Originally posted by: rdp6
cello,

I just built a pc with this mobo and a seagate sata hdd and a sata burner. I left the hard drive option on the default IDE mode, put the XP (with sp2) install disk in and everything just worked: no need to load any other drivers. I was surprised, thought that having SATA devices would require a temporary floppy drive/sneakernet driver installation.

Is your XP install disk clean/scratch-free?
Maybe some of your ram is bad, try using just one stick (assuming you have more than one)...
Perhaps a power issue... noisy line/subpar psu?

Good luck,

Bob

Thanks for the reply. I suspect my HD is bad from stock. Tried every combo the bios will allow and still loops back to "setup".

 

[striped]

I already saw this issue in this thread but no answer was posted.

I have a DS3 rev 3.3 with a E4300 running Vista. When I shut down, the screen looks normal, goes to blank as it should at the end of shutdown, the hard drive stops spinning, but the power light and fan stays on. I have to hold the power button for a few seconds to force it to totally power off.

I have a secondary EIDE Seagate Barracuda drive and in order to make it work I set the following settings in BIOS:
Onboard SATA/IDE: Enabled
Onboard SATA/IDE Device Control Mode: AHCI.

The computer shuts down well if I disable "Onboard SATA/IDE" but obviously I'm loosing the hard drive in this case.

Can anybody help?

 

[imported_cello]

Originally posted by: cello
nOOb question here. Trying to get my DS3 new build clean install to work on a single 200 gig Seagate drive. Everything seemed to be going well. It formated my HD loaded drivers so on and so forth and when it should have loaded the desktop it looped back to SetUp and now wants to do it allover again. For some reason it didn't continue. Any thoughts?? To load windows I set it up to boot from cd rom just like in an IDE syst. Do I neeed to do something special with the SATA drive?

Problem resolved. Disconnected my usb card reader and xp finally loaded completly. Up and running to a full desk top. The card reader must have confused the install process some how. for me.

 

[Phoenix97]

Has anyone tried an E2140 or E2160 on this board yet?

 

[gorobei]

I'm hitting a FSB wall around 350 with my e4300. I went through all the voltages and multipliers with no luck. The cpu will do 3.0 ghz rock solid 9x333 @ 1.4 vcore. But anything over take massive voltage on vcore, fsb, mem, mch, and pci to be stable. It feels like i'm hitting the 965 holes/wall, but dropping the multiplier and cranking the fsb over 400 wont even post.

Any ideas?

 

[Tates]

Originally posted by: gorobei
I'm hitting a FSB wall around 350 with my e4300. I went through all the voltages and multipliers with no luck. The cpu will do 3.0 ghz rock solid 9x333 @ 1.4 vcore. But anything over take massive voltage on vcore, fsb, mem, mch, and pci to be stable. It feels like i'm hitting the 965 holes/wall, but dropping the multiplier and cranking the fsb over 400 wont even post.

Any ideas?

F12 Bios from station-drivers.com

Fixed E4300 FSB266 with PC800

 

[imported_jawgee]

Why isn't the F12 bios listed on the official Gigabyte site? Is it a beta?

Thanks,
jawgee

 

[Cheex]

Can someone please explain #1 below for me please?
These are the changes listed on the GIGABYTE website for the F11 bios.

1. Fix PCI-E overclock issue
2. Support Intel E6420 & E6320 CPU

 

[crimson117]

Originally posted by: Cheex
Can someone please explain #1 below for me please?
These are the changes listed on the GIGABYTE website for the F11 bios.

1. Fix PCI-E overclock issue
2. Support Intel E6420 & E6320 CPU

BIOS notes are always annoyingly vague.

I assume there was some issue with overclocking PCI Express, and now they've fixed it.

 

[1ManArmY]

Originally posted by: crimson117

Originally posted by: Cheex
Can someone please explain #1 below for me please?
These are the changes listed on the GIGABYTE website for the F11 bios.

1. Fix PCI-E overclock issue
2. Support Intel E6420 & E6320 CPU

BIOS notes are always annoyingly vague.

I assume there was some issue with overclocking PCI Express, and now they've fixed it.

it's supposed to prevent the PCI-E bus from reverting to back to auto if you set it to 102 mhz. It didn't work for me so I RMA'd the board and got a ASUS P5K Deluxe. I'm a happy camper now!

 

[1ManArmY]

Originally posted by: crimson117

Originally posted by: Cheex
Can someone please explain #1 below for me please?
These are the changes listed on the GIGABYTE website for the F11 bios.

1. Fix PCI-E overclock issue
2. Support Intel E6420 & E6320 CPU

BIOS notes are always annoyingly vague.

I assume there was some issue with overclocking PCI Express, and now they've fixed it.

it's supposed to prevent the PCI-E bus from reverting to back to auto if you set it to 102 mhz. It didn't work for me so I RMA'd the board and got a ASUS P5K Deluxe. I'm a happy camper now!

 

[Xellos2099]

The Bios F11 is screwing up my system. I was only doing some very basic overclocking and everytime I turn off the pc completely and turn it on again the next day, the system is being reverted back to the original non-overclock speed and I need to go to bios again to change teh setting. This never happen to my old F6 bios, what wrong now?

 

[Steaksauce]

Originally posted by: gorobei
I'm hitting a FSB wall around 350 with my e4300. I went through all the voltages and multipliers with no luck. The cpu will do 3.0 ghz rock solid 9x333 @ 1.4 vcore. But anything over take massive voltage on vcore, fsb, mem, mch, and pci to be stable. It feels like i'm hitting the 965 holes/wall, but dropping the multiplier and cranking the fsb over 400 wont even post.

Any ideas?

The e4300 has reached its limit, yo.

 

[imported_jawgee]

Originally posted by: Xellos2099
The Bios F11 is screwing up my system. I was only doing some very basic overclocking and everytime I turn off the pc completely and turn it on again the next day, the system is being reverted back to the original non-overclock speed and I need to go to bios again to change teh setting. This never happen to my old F6 bios, what wrong now?

Does the F12 bios work any better for you?

Thanks,
jawgee

 

[LongTimePCUser]

I had been losing my overclock settings everytime I restarted windows.

I seem to have found a fix.

I have an e6420 running stable at 8x375 now. FSB=105. No over voltage settings.

I had suspected the quality of my memory was causing the bios to reset my overclocking settings on reboot. Because of that, I had set the memory multiplier to 2.0. It turns that this was the problem. When I upped it to a memory multiplier of 2.5 everthing stabilized and I can now reboot without losing the over clocks.

Strange.

 

[DaHan]

What's the setting that I should use for speedfan 4.32?

I got something like this:

Temp1: 45C
Temp2: 25C
Temp3:-2C
Temp: 58C
HD0:35C
Core0:30C
Core1:27C

What's Temp? NB?

 

[Cheex]

Temp1 = North Bridge Temperature.
Temp2 = Ambient (Case) Temperature.
Temp3 = Completely ignore this.
HD0 = Hard Drive Temperature.
Core0 = Temperature of the 1st core.
Core1 = Temperature of the 2nd core.

 

[Steaksauce]

Temp1 is not the NB temp... it's more like the chipset temp.

 

[DaHan]

What's Temp: 58C ? That's my concern. What's the setting you guys used for the speedfan? Thanks.

 

[zeno0771]

hey everyone, I've spent an hour or so looking through this thread (it's a LONG thread) and I haven't found anything pertaining to my question...
Has anyone questioned the accuracy of the BIOS temp readings on this board? I'm running a homebrew water-cooling setup and coming up with temps as low as 13C, which was easily 6-10C *below* ambient. That was in winter, now of course it's running in the high-30s/low-40s, but how can it show below-ambient with a watercooling setup, especially one with a 2-gallon reservoir (reservoirs retain heat)?

 

[Cheex]

Originally posted by: Steaksauce
Temp1 is not the NB temp... it's more like the chipset temp.

Isn't the main chipset on a mobo called the "North Bridge" ???

Or do YOU mean "socket temperature" ???

 

[Sugeknight]

I have rev 3.3.
When I run windows setup it says my 320gig Seagate is 131070 MB.
I have my SATA burner on SATA0 and my HDD in SATA1.

I've seen a few people indicate that XP should load without the need for SATA drivers.

What did I screw up?

 

[crimson117]

To get more than 137gb, you have to install Windows XP Service Pack 1 or 2.

http://www.largeharddrivesuppo...0-%20Windows%20Support