Originally posted by: Raikku
Is this good mobo, especially if we compare this to other affordable mobos?
If not, then what is better?
Originally posted by: culebracut
Have you seen this?
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/FAQ_Model.aspx?ProductID=2321
It indicates its necessary to update the eprom for the lan chip on the motherboard. I tried it but I have not had a chance to reinstall Vista, however. I did try Windows XP (I wanted to dual boot) and the XP lan driver no longer works. So I'm hoping to just go with Vista, but I won't know untilll this weekend. In the worst case, I was just going to disable the onboard lan and put in an ethernet card.
If someone knows about a driver for the Marvell lan chip (after the eprom upgrade) let me know. The irony of this is that I had Vista running great with the old config (eventually I got past the hang) but I shrunk one of my disks (new Vista feature) and it no longer booted. Oh well.
Let me know how it goes.
I'd try the following things if you haven't already:
0. Set the Memory speed from Auto to "2". On Auto it picks some insane divider (only when you manually set the FSB speed) that just won't work. That way your ram will be running in spec.
1. Set PCI-E bus frequency to 100 (default PCI-E speed) instead of Auto
2. Disable USB legacy support and use a ps/2 mouse and keyboard for testing.
3. leave ram and system voltages at auto.
If that doesnt' work overclocking (which may be the problem because of insane heat you're getting) try underclocking. If you can't underclock some settings are a no go. Drop your CPU multiplier down by one. That and maybe you can get your temperatures down until you can get some better cooling on your CPU. I don't claim to know what will burn up your cpu or not but I'm assuming Intel decided to throttle the CPU back for a reason right around there.
Instead of unseating your video card all the time to get at the battery, use the reset pins right next to it. What I did was take an old fan, cut off the fan part and keep the wire and cable header and plug it into the reset pins and reseat your video card on top of it. When you want to reset your bios just power it up and touch the wires together. When done resetting, keep them apart or put electrical tape over the wire. Much easier.
Originally posted by: leonardosf
I bought the GA-965G-DS3 2.0 to replace my old board from 1999. I installed it and the board wouldn't boot. The problem was that the board didn't come with the small cover on the power supply connector. Therefore, my 20 pin power supply wouldn't work. It needed a new power supply with the 24 pins.
Page 19 of the instruction booklet say, "If you use a 24-pin ATX power supply, please remove the small cover on the power connector on the motherboard before plugging in the power cord; otherwise please do not remove it." My board never came with the small cover that was needed for the 20 pin power supply that I was using. I bought a new power supply that has the 24 pin connector and the board worked perfectly.
It took me a week to figure this out as I thought it was a bad CPU, then maybe my memory was bad, then I thought the motherboard was bad. All for a stupid little cover that never was included with these motherboards.
Bottom line, make sure you have the 24 pin power supply.
Originally posted by: Yaemish
HD Tach is saying that 186 MB/Sec burst speed. In Vista is is showing 30 MB/Sec max during transfers. SiSoft Sandra is comparing the drive to a SATA150 in terms of performance.
Update; these are my results with HD Tach
OS Drive ST3120811AS
Random access 17.2ms
Average Read 49.3 MB/s
Burst Speed 201.5 MB/s
Second Drive ST3250820AS
Random access 13.3ms
Average Read 68.9 MB/s
Burst Speed 214.6 MB/s
Both are Seagate Barracudas, different sizes but they are the same. The device manager shows them as ATA devices, should they say SATA? I also wonder if it may still be a Vista thing. I'll have to ghost my Vista install and try the same test under my XP image.
Originally posted by: lucky9
I'm just a little out of sorts over having to boot into WinXP just to update the BIOS.