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

[jasonwllee]

I'm not trying to do RAID, but I was told that some motherboards have a problem with SATA unless drivers are installed during the Windows setup. If I don't need to do that, how do I make the system recognise my SATA drive? I can't get it to show up in the BIOS.


Jason

 

[redhawk56]

Originally posted by: jasonwllee
I'm not trying to do RAID, but I was told that some motherboards have a problem with SATA unless drivers are installed during the Windows setup. If I don't need to do that, how do I make the system recognise my SATA drive? I can't get it to show up in the BIOS.


Jason

What color is the connector you have it plugged into on the motherboard?

 

[jasonwllee]

I've tried it in both the yellow and the purple, but to no avail. Is either better than the other if I'm not doing RAID?

 

[redhawk56]

Originally posted by: jasonwllee
I've tried it in both the yellow and the purple, but to no avail. Is either better than the other if I'm not doing RAID?

Well.....yes....but let's just get one working first.

First......shut down ...unplug the power and plug the drive into one of the purple connectors.


Then power back on and hit del to get into the bios during the post. On the ide page in the bios, enable everything all the way down the line.

On the raid page, disable everything. Don't worry about what you see at this point. Hit F10 and yes and let is start to repost and turn it off.

Turn off the power supply and wait 20 seconds and turn it back on. Hit the power button and his del during the post again. Go into the boot order and you should see the HD listed in the hard drive boot order. I think that is on the second option down on the main page.

Make that hard drive the first in the boot order. It should actually be the only one listed.

Then use your windows xp sp2 install and see if it goes better.

If you get installed, then run the cd that came with it to load drivers.

We will go from there when you come back

 

[Gary Key]

F8Q DS3

Qualification BIOS, please pound on it and comment with issues.

 

[redhawk56]

Oh sure..........tease me..........If I had a board that hadn't fried itself on the last one, I'd be glad to try it.

LOL

 

[Gary Key]

Originally posted by: redhawk56
Oh sure..........tease me..........If I had a board that hadn't fried itself on the last one, I'd be glad to try it.

LOL

This BIOS is set to allow anyone with a 920 series CPU and XFX 6600GT to run it up to 5GHz but this special clock setting expires in a few minutes, sorry you did not have your board to try it. LOL......

Hopefully, your new board gets to you quickly, understand there is a chance it will be a rev 2 board as they are starting to show up in distribution now. :beer:

 

[amenx]

This F8 is a step backwards for me. After loading optimized defaults, then re-entering my OC settings, it wont post. Went back to F7 which was working OK.

 

[jasonwllee]

To redhawk56:

There doesn't seem to be a separate IDE and RAIR menu in my BIOS, but in the Stadard CMOS, all the drives are enabled and set to automatic detection (the only thing that is picked up is the CD-ROM and not the SATA) and the boot order is set to Floppy, Hard Drive, CR-ROM.

In the Integrated Peripherals menu,

Onboard SATA/IDE Device : Enabled
Onboard SATA/IDE Control Mode: IDE (As opposed to the RAID option).

Windows still says that it does not detect a hard drive. Is there any way of telling if it's a simple error like hard drive failure?

Any thoughts on the whole thing?

 

[redhawk56]

Try a different drive.

 

[redhawk56]

Originally posted by: Gary Key

Originally posted by: redhawk56
Oh sure..........tease me..........If I had a board that hadn't fried itself on the last one, I'd be glad to try it.

LOL

This BIOS is set to allow anyone with a 920 series CPU and XFX 6600GT to run it up to 5GHz but this special clock setting expires in a few minutes, sorry you did not have your board to try it. LOL......

Hopefully, your new board gets to you quickly, understand there is a chance it will be a rev 2 board as they are starting to show up in distribution now. :beer:

Dont quit your day job, you wont make it as a comedian. LOL

 

[Tates]

F8 Final

 

[tastyratz]

woohoo final! anyone know if they finally got the issue with the cold booting resolved with f8?

 

[amenx]

Originally posted by: jasonwllee
To redhawk56:

There doesn't seem to be a separate IDE and RAIR menu in my BIOS, but in the Stadard CMOS, all the drives are enabled and set to automatic detection (the only thing that is picked up is the CD-ROM and not the SATA) and the boot order is set to Floppy, Hard Drive, CR-ROM.

In the Integrated Peripherals menu,

Onboard SATA/IDE Device : Enabled
Onboard SATA/IDE Control Mode: IDE (As opposed to the RAID option).

Windows still says that it does not detect a hard drive. Is there any way of telling if it's a simple error like hard drive failure?

Any thoughts on the whole thing?

That happened to me as well. If you have more than one drive, it may set the boot order to the wrong drive first. See the option just above the boot order which is the drive order and select your boot drive accordingly.

 

[Gary Key]

Originally posted by: amenx
This F8 is a step backwards for me. After loading optimized defaults, then re-entering my OC settings, it wont post. Went back to F7 which was working OK.

Did you clear the CMOS after loading the F8 also? I have found this to be an issue when using @BIOS. Usually, I shutdown the system after flashing, clear CMOS, boot, load defaults, reboot, load my settings, and all is well.

 

[ThePiston]

ok just built this system with parts below. When I gointo the MIT thing is says I had 9X and CPU host at 200mhz(??) bus so I tried setting the multiplier to 8 and the CPU host to 400 and it wouldn't post. It should be able to handle that right? Also, do I use legacy or native for my SATA? (using F8)

 

[Ricochet]

Ok, I'm not sure if I want to jump on the F8 band wagon yet. F7 did not work out for me and I went back to F6, which is the best overclocker for me (FSB @ 410). If someone can confirm it'll resolve the SB X-Fi issue I may just give it a try. As it is with the F6, windows will detect my X-Fi most of the time and on rare occasion it does not show up.

C2D E6400 + Scythe MINE
2x 1gig OCZ Platinum DDR2-800

If anyone can get the above RAM to run higher with the F8 I'd like to know as well.

 

[vailr]

Originally posted by: redhawk56

Originally posted by: jimbofoxman

Originally posted by: redhawk56
Does your northbridge heatsink say Gigabyte on it in big letters?

Yes it does....

Ok.....good..........then we have verified that some people are getting the real rev 2 boards. I just hope I get one when my replacement comes from newegg. What bios came on it? Was it F7?

redhawk:
Did you get an answer from Gigabyte tech support, as to why the "GIGABYTE Virtual Dual BIOS Technology" wasn't able to recover your board to a bootable condition?

Safe
Safe is the key feature of GIGABYTE S-series motherboards with the following elements: Excellent hardware design reinforced BIOS protection through GIGABYTE Virtual Dual BIOS Technology and GIGABYTE BIOS Setting Recovery Technology. Unique system software such as Xpress Recovery 2, PC Health Monitor, HDD S.M.A.R.T., and C.O.M. further strengthen the stability and reliability of your PC!..
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[tastyratz]

yea that was a selling point to me I was thinking that, it pissed me off that his mobo no longer posted when the dual boot bios thing is supposed to protect against that. makes me wonder if I can rely on it with mine if a new bios doesnt flash well...

Is there some sort of a safeguard override type thing? As in boot from the backup bios if you turn the pc on while holding down the ctrl-alt-f4 keys or a jumper override activation... something similar?

as far as f8, ricochet if the final doesnt fry motherboards then give it a go. If it doesnt work out for you then just go back to f6. Im in the middle of reformatting and trying to get a new windows install situated on my new raptor raid setup and I probabbly wont try flashing to f8 final until after the dust settles with that in the next few days/week ish or so.

 

[ThePiston]

yep, i couldn't boot today - do you have to do something to turn on dual booting? Even my old ECS from 3 years ago had a safety boot for when I pushed it too hard. F8 is working fine for me...

 

[tastyratz]

thepiston: can you go into more detail with why you couldnt boot? Are you saying that you couldnt boot because of a bios related problem or just from overclocking?

 

[Undersea]

Well any more feedback on f8 yet? I'll load it tonight.

This bios thing reminds me of chaintech woes using winflash. With a dual core and version f5 chaintech bios would flash bad. Many, many people had problems with flashing.

Use the built in flash utility and a floppy.

BTW I used the new jmicron drivers. I tried them out last night and am using the 1.17.08.1 drivers for XP. Raid.

I did not use the drivers in windows yet. The utility they give when loaded is about usless.

Seen here:

http://www.station-drivers.com/page/jmicron.htm

Get to flashing everyone!

Gary does this version bios fix the D9 bug? What are the stated fixes?

 

[ThePiston]

yeah, I put the CPU host controller up to 400 Mhz without changing any voltages and it went into a boot/shutdown cycle. I cleared CMOS and it was ok.

 

[AdamK47]

I like their notes for the BIOS versions. "Update CPU ID"... I guess that's all that was done to it. Silly Gigabyte.

 

[tastyratz]

ok cool thepiston.

adam: I agree, although their website documentation is hardly a bragging right. You get different pages and answers when you click through different ways. The bios descriptions dont really show very much of what was changed and updated even though you know there was alot more done than they put for the 1 or 2 short sentences there.