The Unofficial Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R P35 Board Thread

[Krakn3Dfx]

I've had this board since they first came out, rev 1.1, was running an e4400 on it since day one, no problems. A little over a month ago, I upgraded to an e8400, and had to update to the F10 bios for it. Since then, I've had nothing but problems trying to get things stable. I'm not sure what problem is, but I started getting reboots, blue screens, and no changes I made in the bios would ever hold. Spent 3 weeks trying to figure it out, decided to RMA it, and picked up one of the cheap after rebate ABit IP35-E boards, which is working flawlessly at the moment.

Also have 2 1GB sticks of Crucial DDR2-800 that worked fine until I put in the e8400 and updated the bios, then suddenly they would only work about 30% of the time, thought they had gone bad, but they're working fine in the Abit board, so who knows. Maybe it was just a matter of bad timing or something.

 

[Gooseh]

Well, finally got another board from Aria, informed the loose/wobbly NB heatsink was 'normal'.

Got it home, connected everything up and I have no POST at all, just fans whirring. No beeps no nothing.

Kind of stuck if I can't even POST.

Any ideas?

 

[mrfatboy]

just the obvious.

1) make sure everything in connected right
2) Bad power supply?
3) Bad board?

These boards are flakey. I have had one blow my power supply. If I were you I would returned and get another especially if it's a version 1.1.

 

[Gooseh]

Cheers for reply mrfatboy.

Well it's a R2.0. I also have an R2.1 from Overclockers sitting here but the NB heatsink is dancing around on that one.

As far as I can tell everything is connected as it should be, insofar as any given case manual bears zero resemblance to a any given mobo manual.

I have lights on at the front of my case and all fans going good. Reset button doesn't do anything, seems to be no power to the CDdrive. There's either no audio beepwise, or I'm not even getting that far, hard to tell really. I have disconnected everything bar 1 stick of RAM (GSkill 1066Dual Channel 2x2GB) and the Graphics (BFG 8800GTSo/c)

Beginning to think these boards are just not worth it. F*ck knows how all these hardware sites rate these things so highly when there's thousands of pages of grief on the internet from the general public. Fired off some pleas to Gigabyte, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

I'm working on the assumption that the PSU is OK since all the fans do their thing, but maybe that's a step too far too. :¬S

 

[mrfatboy]

Forget Gigabyte tech support. You will get no usuable info from them. This thread has all the info.


Is your PS plugged into the CPU ps socket? I forgot that one at first.

Try different ram if you have it.

Don't worry about the NB heatsink. Just snap it back on.

Maybe remove Cmos battery for a while and reset bio using jumper.


The PSU still seems suspect to me if it's not the board.

 

[Gooseh]

Cheers.

PS is 24 pin & seated nicely just where it should be, I figure it's working OK since lights come on and fans go round? I'm guessing that all is OK at least to that point!

I have read this mobo has no internal speaker, so any error codes are inaudible? Seems a bit 'way out there' but I couldn't find any header for one. That RAM could be screaming at me and what would I know. I can hit Aria tomorrow and get some more RAM, but I'm sitting on 2 mobos (1 arrived trashed from Overclockers, replacement bought today from Aria), 2 cases (1 Antec P182 arrived trashed from Novatech, replacement bought today from Aria ) my credit card is running out of goodwill

Plus these shits charge a 2.5% at the counter for CC purchases! I could be £20 down in minutes

I have read about the cmos thing elsewhere http://forums.overclockers.co....wthread.php?t=17636047 there's some useful stuff there, but not if you can't even get to the bios.

Cheers for your time, appreciated

 

[mrfatboy]

You are right, there is no speaker but there is a header. Plug in an old one if you have one.

There should be a 4 pin 2x2 socket next to the CPU that is needs to be powered separately by the PSU. Is that connected. If that is not connected, your fans and lights will come on by no POST.

I would double check all your wiring.

 

[Gooseh]

Double check coming right up

 

[Gooseh]

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[Gooseh]

Hmmm... slight imagevenue issue there...still see it yes?

 

[Gooseh]

Hmmmm...kind of figured that was an ?alternative? power supply option dependent on country, I am in the UK by the way, would hate to plug it in and blow stuff up ?

 

[Gooseh]

Kind of figured that was a power option dependent on country, I am in the UK, would hate to plug it in and have stuff blow up

 

[Gooseh]

Apologies for double postsge & you are entirely right, a quick plug in and I'm up and running!

Hats off to you sir and the dunce cap for me

Now if I can convince the bitch my dual channel 1066 5.5.5.15 isn't single channel 5.7.7.20 I might be in with a shout.

Mind you it's 3am and works calls shortly, time for bed.

My thanks to you for your wisdom.

Eternally grateful & thanks.

 

[Moustiq77]

Hello. My first post here.

The main hard drive on my wife's computer started making a clicking sound randomly. It's going, apparently. Only a half-year old WD, oh well...

I really don't want to reinstall windows from scratch...

To replace it and to be on the safe side in the future we decided to replicate the existing system installation on two new RAID 1 mirrored hard drives. Sounds good in theory. I've never dealt with RAID before.

The motherboard is suppose to support the RAID 1. It's Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R (rev.1).
The manual to the board has 2 sections on how to activate the RAID - for ICH9R and GIGABYTE's own. 2 controllers? Which one to use?

Copying the existing Windows XP installation (plus Ubuntu on another partition on that hd) is a whole another task. I tried to use Acronis Disk Director to copy a partition. It told me it would take 14 hours!!
Can anyone prompt me to the right direction on what and how should I use to transfer my system this way?

Thank you.

 

[vert310]

Hey everybody,

I'm really having trouble getting vista 32 onto my system. I've been searching all over the net and I've still havent found an answer that works yet. Here's what I have:

Q6600 G0
TRUE 120
1gb x 4 = 4gb Ballistix
EP35-DS3R rev 2.1 upgraded bios from f2 to f3b
8800gts 512mb
WD Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA
Samsung 20x DVD Burner SATA
Solo Case

The problem I'm having is when I get into the Vista installation and I install the ich9r drivers from my usb, the hard drive is still not recognized. I also notice when it boots that when the ich9r is scanning for devices, it only detects my dvd drive and not my hard drive. Ive read somewhere maybe this is because my hard drive has not been partitioned or formatted yet. I don't what to do so I can get my ich9r to recognize my drive. I know people have gotten to where I am but are able to load the drivers for ich9r and see a partition they can install too. Anybody with any advice?

 

[darkenedsoul]

Originally posted by: Moustiq77
Hello. My first post here.

The main hard drive on my wife's computer started making a clicking sound randomly. It's going, apparently. Only a half-year old WD, oh well...

I really don't want to reinstall windows from scratch...

To replace it and to be on the safe side in the future we decided to replicate the existing system installation on two new RAID 1 mirrored hard drives. Sounds good in theory. I've never dealt with RAID before.

The motherboard is suppose to support the RAID 1. It's Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R (rev.1).
The manual to the board has 2 sections on how to activate the RAID - for ICH9R and GIGABYTE's own. 2 controllers? Which one to use?

Copying the existing Windows XP installation (plus Ubuntu on another partition on that hd) is a whole another task. I tried to use Acronis Disk Director to copy a partition. It told me it would take 14 hours!!
Can anyone prompt me to the right direction on what and how should I use to transfer my system this way?

Thank you.

Hi, I would use the ICH9 Raid which is the first 6 ports (the other two of different color are the gigabyte ones). You'd have to enable that in BIOS (SATA AHCI option or RAID, I use AHCI) and then configure your devices. But if you are going to redo it with the RAID configuration what about making an image of your current setup via Acronis True Image Echo or Workstation products and make sure you get an updated image for the CD because original one I got for workstation wouldn't boot, missing acronis boot ntldr messages. They sent me a pointer to a new ISO image which I burned and then worked fine for booting up from CD to do a backup (or restore for that matter).

Anyways, i went RAID 0 for performance and image my system(s) to an external USB drive so I can recover from a catastrophic HD failure should one happen. Recommended thing to do, get an external 300+Gb USB/Firewire HD and put your image(s) there!

Oh, just noticed you have disk director. Not up on that product so can't help there. I know there was a way to do it via xcopy with some switches but I don't know how long that would take either. Probably awhile since you have to copy all files including hidden ones. You would also need to make that new mirror set bootable after formatting and I don't know what else may need to do done. I prefer doing an image and restoring it to the hardware after it's been set up (providing drivers are there in the backup/restore software to handle raid/sata optical configurations.

Good luck either way, I like Acronis, others use other tools. I would look in other threads/forums here that pertain to probably storage for info on doing a backup of that data to new raid set.

 

[darkenedsoul]

Originally posted by: vert310
Hey everybody,

I'm really having trouble getting vista 32 onto my system. I've been searching all over the net and I've still havent found an answer that works yet. Here's what I have:

Q6600 G0
TRUE 120
1gb x 4 = 4gb Ballistix
EP35-DS3R rev 2.1 upgraded bios from f2 to f3b
8800gts 512mb
WD Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA
Samsung 20x DVD Burner SATA
Solo Case

The problem I'm having is when I get into the Vista installation and I install the ich9r drivers from my usb, the hard drive is still not recognized. I also notice when it boots that when the ich9r is scanning for devices, it only detects my dvd drive and not my hard drive. Ive read somewhere maybe this is because my hard drive has not been partitioned or formatted yet. I don't what to do so I can get my ich9r to recognize my drive. I know people have gotten to where I am but are able to load the drivers for ich9r and see a partition they can install too. Anybody with any advice?

You only have 1 HD I see. What do you have your hardware setup for in BIOS with regards to the SATA setup? Is it set to RAID, AHCI or IDE? If the former or latter I'd switch it to AHCI. You'll also need a) a floppy drive and b) Intel ICH9 drivers from their website in order to get to the point of selecting addition drivers at initial install time (F6 option, hit F6, insert floppy with intel drivers, etc...you know the drill).

So get into BIOS and look for the SATA option probably under integrated peripherals (not in front of my system so can't confirm what page within BIOS). Look at the settings, read the manual to see what it tells you about those options, select one, save/exit BIOS and see if it sees the disk then. I have a pair of them in my Abit IP35 Pro I recently put together (last weekend) under RAID 1 and I have AHCI set up in BIOS on integrated peripherals under SATA option.

Hope that at least gets you in right area/direction.

Mike

 

[vert310]

Hi Mike,

Tried all that still no luck. Ive tried both the ACHI mode and the RAID mode, both do not detect my hard drive in port 0. Port 1 is listed as my dvd which is correct. I wonder if there is something going on with my drive? Its a brand new drive...

 

[cwall64]

I have a GA-P35C-DS3R (v2.0 F6 bios) board with a Q6600 runnning at 2.997
Ghz (fsb set to 333). The "SmartFAN Control Method" when set to "AUTO" and
the "SmartFAN Control Mode" set to "PWM", does not seem to adjust the fan
speed enough on my Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro. The core temps are in the
45 - 55 degree range (but the BIOS reports the "Current CPU Temperature"
much lower that CoreTemp/HWMonitor does, 10 degrees or so) and the fan is
only running at about 300 RPM. If i disable all the SmartFAN options then
the fan runs at ~2800 RPM and seems to keep the cores at 37 - 43 degrees
(under load from Prime95). BIOS is F6. I just built another one with the
exact same components except the board is the GA-EP35C-DS3R (v2.1 F2 bios)
and the SmartFAN controls do vary the speed with load better.

Question is have others noticed this when using the PWM option in the BIOS?
What is the "best" way to set fan controls when overclocking the CPU?
Thanks,
Chris

 

[cwall64]

Originally posted by: cwall64
I have a GA-P35C-DS3R (v2.0 F6 bios) board with a Q6600 runnning at 2.997
Ghz (fsb set to 333). The "SmartFAN Control Method" when set to "AUTO" and
the "SmartFAN Control Mode" set to "PWM", does not seem to adjust the fan
speed enough on my Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro. The core temps are in the
45 - 55 degree range (but the BIOS reports the "Current CPU Temperature"
much lower that CoreTemp/HWMonitor does, 10 degrees or so) and the fan is
only running at about 300 RPM. If i disable all the SmartFAN options then
the fan runs at ~2800 RPM and seems to keep the cores at 37 - 43 degrees
(under load from Prime95). BIOS is F6. I just built another one with the
exact same components except the board is the GA-EP35C-DS3R (v2.1 F2 bios)
and the SmartFAN controls do vary the speed with load better.

Question is have others noticed this when using the PWM option in the BIOS?
What is the "best" way to set fan controls when overclocking the CPU?
Thanks,
Chris

Update: I flash the F10 BIOS and SmartFAN/PWM seems to be working now, running one instance of prime95, HWMonitor reports fan running at ~1,500 RPM, 50, 51, 46, 49 degrees. The fan goes up to 2,800 RPM, around what temp does PWM max out the fan? Also, what do most set the "Intel® CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E) function", "Intel® CPU Thermal Monitor (TM2) function", & "Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST)"? Currently I have them all enabled.

 

[Mikawo]

I have revision 1.1 of the GA-P35C-DS3R board. I just recently noticed that the BIOS voltage display for memory does not go below 2.0v. I set the voltage control to manual and leave memory on normal, but when I check the PC health screen, the voltage says ~2.0 volts. Is this normal?

 

[Ricochet]

For the life of me I cannot figure out how to get my X-Fi Platinum to work on this board. It keeps getting the Code 12 error in device manager which means Windows XP is not assigning the appropriate resource for it. I've tried everything I can think of but to no avail.

System Specs:
Antec 550W Trio
Antec P180 Case
GA-P35-DS3R (rev. 1.0)
C2D E6550
ATI Sapphire X1900XTX Crossfire Ed.
Super Talent 8GB (4x2GB) DDR2-800
(2) Spinpoint F1 750gb
Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum

I initially got this setup to build a system to utilize RAID 0 which is my first foray into RAID btw. First I tried using the purple Gigabyte SATA ports and J-micron drivers but keep getting errors during the Windows XP install. I abandoned that and opted using the Intel ICH9R SATA ports instead. Windows XP installed without a hitch. That is until I installed the soundblaster driver for my X-Fi.

The X-Fi is the only item in the device manager that has the code 12 error after I installed all the required windows drivers. I disabled the onboard sound, onboard NIC, serial port, parallel port, and at one point even the USB controllers. Did so in both Windows and the BIOS. Moved the X-Fi to different PCI slots (not easy with the P180 case btw).

Figuring that the X-Fi might not be compatible with the ICH8R RAID 0 setup, I abandoned RAID and reinstalled Windows with the SATA hard drives in IDE mode. Of course I also kept most devices disabled to see if Windows will give the X-Fi the resource it needs. The soundblaster driver was the first thing I installed after Windows came up. Guess what? I still get the code 12 error for the X-Fi.

I am completely baffled. After multiple reinstallation of Windows, delete partition, reformat hard drive, reinsertion, pre-insert & post-insert of the soundcard, and clear CMOS I still come up with that error. Everytime I try to remove it altogether from the device manager to let it recognize on reboot, I get a BSOD.

This X-Fi works perfectly fine on another system (which I had aready given to my brother).

 

[Dangerer]

edit: i realized one was p35c and the other was p35

 

[Mikawo]

I think it's cheaper because the P35-DS3R one does not support DDR3.

 

[Dangerer]

So I picked up the GA-P35C-DS3R rev 2.0. Loaded my q9450 in and tried to boot, all the fans run and there's power including my GPU, but nothing shows up on the screen. The only fan that doesn't run for some reason is the CPU fan. Could it be that I must have rev 2.1 in order to run the q9450? You don't hear the beep when the computer turns on so it never posts, also when the fans come on for about 5 seconds, then the whole thing shuts off for a second then comes back on again

edit:
I just checked Gigabyte's website and it stated that rev 2.0 does support 45nm What could be wrong