Hi. I bought a P35-DS4 board, unfortunately it was rev 1.1. I installed the latest BIOS (F8), and the latest version of Easy Tune 5 from your site.
Specs:
Q6600 G0
Gigabyte P35-DS4 rev 1.1 F8 bios
Seasonic S12-430W PSU
2GB Geil Ultra 800 CL4
7900Gs
OS: Windows XP SP2
Well, the board runs, but I'm having some problems with it:
1. Whenever Easy Tune 5 runs, 3DMark 2005 "hiccups" (it stops for very brief periods of time every now and then). When I shut ET5 down, it works as it should (no hiccups or lags). I don't have 3DMark 2006 available at the moment. I'll try to find other benchmarks to test those.
2. When I resume from standby (both XP and Vista), it makes a long beep (sometimes a long continous beep, sometimes a long beep but with different tones, and sometimes a long beep and a short beep), but the computer seems to work ok. What does that single long beep mean?
3. I can't overclock my Q6600 rev. G0 to 3GHz with 9x333 (I only tried stock voltage, maybe tonight I'll try a higher voltage for the processor; but from what I know it should work with stock voltage). It works perfectly with 8x333=2.66. My PSU is Seasonic S12-430W (14A + 15A 12V rails).
4. Whenever I overclock, when I do a cold boot (when I start the computer from a shut dow, I think "cold boot" is the term for this), the board starts for a second, then shuts down for one or two seconds, then starts. It ALWAYS does this when I overclock the FSB. It doesn't do this when the FSB si 266.
This is the first time I overclock, so I have no experience with this. When I overclock, do I have to also increase the voltage of the FSB and/or the MCH? If so, by how much? Maybe that would fix some of the issues, but I'm afraid not to damage the MCH or other components.
Specs:
Q6600 G0
Gigabyte P35-DS4 rev 1.1 F8 bios
Seasonic S12-430W PSU
2GB Geil Ultra 800 CL4
7900Gs
OS: Windows XP SP2
Well, the board runs, but I'm having some problems with it:
1. Whenever Easy Tune 5 runs, 3DMark 2005 "hiccups" (it stops for very brief periods of time every now and then). When I shut ET5 down, it works as it should (no hiccups or lags). I don't have 3DMark 2006 available at the moment. I'll try to find other benchmarks to test those.
2. When I resume from standby (both XP and Vista), it makes a long beep (sometimes a long continous beep, sometimes a long beep but with different tones, and sometimes a long beep and a short beep), but the computer seems to work ok. What does that single long beep mean?
3. I can't overclock my Q6600 rev. G0 to 3GHz with 9x333 (I only tried stock voltage, maybe tonight I'll try a higher voltage for the processor; but from what I know it should work with stock voltage). It works perfectly with 8x333=2.66. My PSU is Seasonic S12-430W (14A + 15A 12V rails).
4. Whenever I overclock, when I do a cold boot (when I start the computer from a shut dow, I think "cold boot" is the term for this), the board starts for a second, then shuts down for one or two seconds, then starts. It ALWAYS does this when I overclock the FSB. It doesn't do this when the FSB si 266.
This is the first time I overclock, so I have no experience with this. When I overclock, do I have to also increase the voltage of the FSB and/or the MCH? If so, by how much? Maybe that would fix some of the issues, but I'm afraid not to damage the MCH or other components.