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

[skinnyj]

Originally posted by: Bitty
The NB can be cooled the cpu cooler if you have say a Blue Orb II. This is a large cooler with a 12cm fan which blows air down onto the the cpu and the surrounding components, eg NB and RAM. I have not tested the temps but it seems reasonable that the air flow does help cool them. My case panel has a grill just by it.

are you running this with a ds3? any fitment issues was it hard to get on etc?

 

[Rashean700]

Originally posted by: donnyjepp
Rashean700 do you have a fan plugged into the SYS_FAN header by the floppy connector? I decided to put the fan sensor wire from my power supply on there. I have seen boards (not specifically this one though) not want to stay on if there isn't a good signal from a chassis fan.

Can you confirm your video card is healthy in another system, or put a known good vid card in this board just to test it out?

Yes I have it plugged into CPU fan not System fan to awnser your question. I have tried this also without the 12v plugged in and for some strange reason the cpu fan will stay on without 12v plugged in. I have tried 4 other pci-e cards that are all accepted by this mb ie. x1900, 7900gt, 7900gtx and 7800gtx and none are giving any video at all. I am going to call gigabyte and scream at them for wasting my time by sending me back the board with nothing fixed and see what they are going to do about this problem. I shall keep you guys posted.

 

[donnyjepp]

Originally posted by: Rashean700
Yes I have it plugged into CPU fan not System fan to awnser your question. I have tried this also without the 12v plugged in and for some strange reason the cpu fan will stay on without 12v plugged in.

Why do that? The CPU fan ought to be on the CPU_FAN header, no? Put either a case fan or your power supply's fan sensor wire on the SYS_FAN header.

I guess I'd think the CPU_FAN takes power off the main ATX supply rather than the ATX_12v by the CPU. I could be wrong about that though. On that note, what make/model of power supply are you using?

Hope you get things working though. I like my DS3 a lot, but it does seem to have some quirks.

 

[Bitty]

Skinnyj

Yes on a DS3. It was quite difficult to fit when I installed it in an Asrock Dual Vsta board. In the DS3 board it was much eaiser since I was patient and understood better how to fit it. I fitted the memory first since slot 0 is slightly obstructed. Once in place though it is solid, silent and cool - 39C idle with CPU oclocked to 3.2GHz. The DS3 manages the fan speed. I disabled this feature since the speed seemed too slow at 1200rpm. It's throughput at full speed 1700rpm is about 80cfm and very quiet. I wanted that speed to cool other parts too. The Blue Orb was quite a bit cheaper than others offering similar cooling power.

 

[Veraxitas]

I keep having graphics issues in 3D gaming with my ds-3. I say its the motherboard b/c I have tried 3 different GeForce cards 7900GT, 7900GTX, and 7600GS, and they all do the same thing. I get freeze ups, artifacting, and most of the time when I leave a game its like the memory is overloaded b/c the desktop still has images from the game on it and images are broken up and nothing works and the screen goes black, then back to broken, then black and then freezes. I end up having to restart the computer and then its ok. I have checked temps and the card never goes above 54 degrees. The motherboard temps are usually around 45 degrees. I have tried re-formatting and re-installing windows, have tried 2 different power supplies, I have tried 4 different drivers and even changed out my memory sticks. I even tried another CPU. I have chganged everything, including 3 different DS3 motherboards and they all do the samething. So I am assuming it is an incompatibility issue or something I need to change in the bIOS. BTW, I do have the latest F5 Bios.

 

[donnyjepp]

Originally posted by: Veraxitas
I keep having graphics issues in 3D gaming with my ds-3. I say its the motherboard b/c I have tried 3 different GeForce cards 7900GT, 7900GTX, and 7600GS, and they all do the same thing. I get freeze ups, artifacting, and most of the time when I leave a game its like the memory is overloaded b/c the desktop still has images from the game on it and images are broken up and nothing works and the screen goes black, then back to broken, then black and then freezes. I end up having to restart the computer and then its ok. I have checked temps and the card never goes above 54 degrees. The motherboard temps are usually around 45 degrees. I have tried re-formatting and re-installing windows, have tried 2 different power supplies, I have tried 4 different drivers and even changed out my memory sticks. I even tried another CPU. I have chganged everything, including 3 different DS3 motherboards and they all do the samething. So I am assuming it is an incompatibility issue or something I need to change in the bIOS. BTW, I do have the latest F5 Bios.

Try setting the PCI Express bus to 100 instead of auto, and if that doesn't help try running it around 103mhz. I read that somewhere.

 

[AdamK47]

There is a new driver for the Gigabyte GBB36X Controller. This driver is only available from Microsoft Windows Update. I tried to search for a stand alone installation, but could not find it. To install it go to the device manager and right click on the controller and click on properties. Go to the driver tab and click on Update Driver. Have it connect to Windows Update to find the new driver. Here is a pic I took of the version and date.

Do not go through the Windows Update page to update the driver! I learned this the hard way. It will try to install a new driver rather than update the existing driver causing anything attached to the parallel IDE controller to stop working.

I hope this fixes the cold boot problems when running SATA RAID and have a device attached to the parallel IDE channel. I'll know later.

 

[buzzardbreath]

What if some idiot, not mentioning any names, used the Windows update page like you said not to do. How do I fix my mistake.

Is that why I have the following problem?
Under AHCI in BIOS my DVD drive disappears from device manager.
If I switch back to IDE the DVD drive reappears.

 

[AdamK47]

Originally posted by: buzzardbreath
What if some idiot, not mentioning any names, used the Windows update page like you said not to do. How do I fix my mistake.

Is that why I have the following problem?
Under AHCI in BIOS my DVD drive disappears from device manager.
If I switch back to IDE the DVD drive reappears.

Yes, that is exactly what happened to me. I believe the way I fixed it was to uninstall the GBB36X device that has a "!" next to it. Don't reboot. Right click on the "working" GBB36X device and update the driver like I described above. After that, reboot Windows. I hope this helps.

 

[littlebrownbird]

Well I deleted the non-working one and did the update thru device manager. Now I have 2 entries for Gigabyte GBB36X. One has the yellow sign by it, one does not. Still don't see DVD drive. I'm lost.

 

[AdamK47]

Originally posted by: littlebrownbird
Well I deleted the non-working one and did the update thru device manager. Now I have 2 entries for Gigabyte GBB36X. One has the yellow sign by it, one does not. Still don't see DVD drive. I'm lost.

OK, try this. Uninstall the one with the yellow sign next to it. Update the driver on the working one. Instead of using the one from Windows Update, use version 1.12 (previous version). This driver can be found on the GigaByte website. Reboot Windows after that. Hopefully when you reboot you'll have the DVD drive working again. If it's working then try updating the driver to 1.16 from Windows Update like I described above. If I remember correctly, this is how I fixed it on my system (not totally sure).

 

[littlebrownbird]

Wow !!! I never thought I would see my DVD drive under AHCI ever again without reformatting the entire drive. But it worked !!!

Thank you. I've been obsessed with this problem trying to figure it out for about 4 days now. May good karma come your way !

 

[AdamK47]

Originally posted by: littlebrownbird
Wow !!! I never thought I would see my DVD drive under AHCI ever again without reformatting the entire drive. But it worked !!!

Thank you. I've been obsessed with this problem trying to figure it out for about 4 days now. May good karma come your way !

Are you using the 1.16 driver now?

 

[Dooyas]

I got my system up and running just the other day, specs are as follow

Intel E6600
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3
OCZ 2GB PC2-6400 EL Platinum XTC Edition Rev. 2 (2 x 1GB)
ATI X850XT
Seagate 320GB Barracuda 7200.10 SATA II w/ NCQ, 16MB Cache
Vista RC1 5600 Build 64-bit

Everything is working nicely, the system posted 1st time (actually 2nd, 1st time I forgot to hit the swith on the PSU). Unfortunaly I do not have some drivers, my X-Fi card I had to take out and use onboard, and the SATA drivers I believe are causing my HD to run slower then it should. I am using the ones that came with Vista currently.

I was wondering if anyone knew of some good locations to get some vista 64 drivers that might work a little better then what I have now.

Other then that everything on the system is running great. I only hit 60% usage playing BF2 I have yet to figure out what to do with the other 40%.

Dooyas

 

[HarleyRoadKing]

Dooyas,

Could you tell me what driver you are using for your SATA Raid setup in Vista? I have been trying to install Vista RC1 x64 with not much luck and can't seem to find a driver that it likes for the Gigabyte raid controller. Here's my system:

GA-965P-DS3
C2D E6400
OCZ DDR2 @ 667
2 x 250GB SataII HDD running Raid
eVga 7800GTX

Any help would be welcomed, I'd like to check RC1 out.

Oh, I currently have XP on my system and was going to dual boot with Vista installed on a separate partition.

Thanks!

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: HarleyRoadKing
Dooyas,

Could you tell me what driver you are using for your SATA Raid setup in Vista? I have been trying to install Vista RC1 x64 with not much luck and can't seem to find a driver that it likes for the Gigabyte raid controller. Here's my system:

GA-965P-DS3
C2D E6400
OCZ DDR2 @ 667
2 x 250GB SataII HDD running Raid
eVga 7800GTX

Any help would be welcomed, I'd like to check RC1 out.

Oh, I currently have XP on my system and was going to dual boot with Vista installed on a separate partition.

Thanks!

Did you try gigabytes website? I would try there first and see if they have one available.

Ausm

 

[buzzardbreath]

Yes....I am now using the 1.16 driver and everything works great. I wouldn't have thought using the Windows update site would have screwed things up, but I guess that's not the case.

 

[HarleyRoadKing]

None available at their website and according to tech support there are no beta drivers....

 

[koitsu]

Maybe folks here can help me with this problem. My system is the following:

* Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 (running F5 BIOS, but also had this problem w/ F4 too)
* Intel E6600 (2.4GHz/1066FSB/4MB)
* Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400 DDR2-800
* Plextor PX-755SA
* Audigy 2 ZS
* EVGA 7800 GT CO

Nothing on this system is overclocked (except for the bloody video card, which hasn't had any problems even on my previous system, which was an AMD X2 + NF4 Ultra system).

I've run SiSoft Sandra for literally 48 hours w/out any crashes or lock-ups, and run memtest86 for 24 hours w/out any issues either.

The problem I'm having seems to be related to gaming and the like:

Very rarely (maybe once every 4-5 days), while running WoW or FFXI, my system will completely hard-lock. Right as it does, a bunch of white noise and mixed music + etc. plays from my speakers, much like a DirectSound buffer is getting corrupted in some weird way before the system crashes. The audio does not get stuck in a loop when the crash happens; it simply plays a bunch of garbage, then hard locks.

It seems to indicate, to me, that there's some sort-of audio driver problem or some weird rare circumstance that causes this to happen -- and it's driving me nuts to try and debug.

Someone mentioned that with Audigy cards to not put them in the last (furthest away from the video card) PCI slot. Mine has been in the middle slot since day one. I have no other PCI cards.

 

[donnyjepp]

Ditch the Audigy and see if you have the same problem with the onboard ICH8 sound. That will at least rule out the Audigy as a cause. I'm thinking it is a problem on your video card.

 

[koitsu]

Originally posted by: donnyjepp
Ditch the Audigy and see if you have the same problem with the onboard ICH8 sound. That will at least rule out the Audigy as a cause. I'm thinking it is a problem on your video card.

I'm pretty sure the problem is not the Audigy itself, as it's a card I've had for a couple of years across different motherboards without any issue ever (literally -- not even a single count). Hardware can indeed go bad, though. The problem really manifests itself as more of a driver issue -- I'd love to blame Creative for not having SMP-friendly drivers, except that the same drivers + card worked fine on my AMD X2 + NF4 Ultra system...

Can you explain why you think the problem is the video card?

In the interim, I've applied the following BIOS and system changes to see if it makes a difference:

* BIOS: Disabled: CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E)
* BIOS: Disabled: CPU Thermal Monitor 2 (TM2)
* BIOS: Disabled: CPU EIST Function
* BIOS: Disabled: Virtualization Technology
* Moved Audigy 2 ZS to last PCI slot (furthest away from PCI-e)
* Dropped hardware acceleration slider in Windows down 1 notch (Full --> Standard)

Also, one other question: I've noticed the NB and SB heatsinks on this motherboard get *incredibly* hot -- is this normal? Could it be the issue? (My system temperature is around 34C; I have to leave the case open since I don't have any 4-pin fans. That's the only complaint I have about this board: lack-of decent fan headers)

 

[donnyjepp]

pretty normal for the NB to get almost scorchingly hot. Some guys are zip-tying a fan to it, I installed a Jing Ting on mine (see my post on page 10 with pics). It seems to have helped a bit.

I'm just saying if you can pull the Audigy and rule it out as a cause, you'll be one step along the way to figuring it out. I haven't had any problems with the built-in audio yet and I've probably got 40 hours of gaming on it so far. The reason I mentioned the video card is that you said the box ran stable for a pretty good burn in but only eats it when you're playing a game. And rarely at that. I'm sure you have the current video drivers etc--tried setting the PCI-X to 100mhz instead of "auto" in the BIOS? Too bad 3Dmark doesn't let you run it in a looping fashion (unless I'm missing something) to try to force the issue.

Yeah the lack of a proper set of fan headers is about my only complaint with the board. 2 surely isn't enough. I am having a hard time getting my front USB header to work but I'll check it next time I have the thing apart.

Edit: You might try to lessen the overclockage on your vid card until you get to the root cause of the problem.

 

[infotech]

Are people getting OCZ memory to boot with this motherboard now?

Thanks!

 

[littlebrownbird]

"Are people getting OCZ memory to boot with this motherboard now"?

I've used OCZ Gold 800 Mhz DDR2 ever since I got the board and never had a problem.

 

[modestninja]

Well I just got mine and when I put in my platinum the computer turns on but I get no video output. So far I've swapped out for known working VC and PSU so unless I have a bad CPU, it looks like the RAM isn't liked by the mobo. I'm picking up some slower 1.8V RAM to test today and will post the results tonight after work.

Cheers!