GIGABYTE DS3 FAQ by CrazyJohn /FAQ on 1st page/

Delas52,

I had my mouse also quit working on me after doing a reinstall, I have a Logitech MX518 & after I was installing some updates & the INF driver my mouse just quit. It would light up on Post but once it got into windows it would not light up again. What I did to get it working again was I went into device manager & noticed that all my UB root hubs had yellow exclamation marks by them. I just removed the hubs & rebooted & let windows redetect them & everything started to work again. I think it is possibly a bug with the inf drivers.

Thank you. I got it fixed by installing the Ich8 usb drivers a second time. Not sure why, but it worked.

Suggestion: Can we get a list of compatible / noncompatible ram with this board? Granted its not too hard to google and find various threads listing compatible sticks but it'd be nice to have it in one place. Some working/nonworking ram modules are listed here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=110645

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Originally Posted by Akaikami

Ok I got my system running and everything, right now i'm on the F1 BIOS and i'm just wondering a few things.

This was my first time putting thermal paste on a cpu/HSF and it was a big pain in the ass. I did it as directed on the Arctic tutorial. I put a rice-sized glob of it in the middle of the proc and spreaded it around with my finger wrapped in seran wrap in a circular motion until it almost covered the whole top of the CPU. Then I put on the HSF (stock) and I found it to be a HUGE pain in the ass to get on. I would get 2 of the plastic things popped in but then the other 2 wouldn't go in until I pushed them so hard it didn't sound good on my mobo.

Well anyways, I was wondering if idling at 40-43C is bad for stock cooling?

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Could be the HS is not totally in cause my E6300 is idling at around 30C.

I installed the F4E beta bios today. It completely cured the "can't overclock" problem, even with dual channel RAM and a 7600gt GFX card. Everyone having these problems should try it.

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Originally Posted by fyleow

That's not true, I have two of these boards sitting in front of me now. They both have the F4C bios and with the exact same components one will not OC past 2ghz on an E6300 while the other one does 2.4ghz dual prime stable. Heatsink, memory, video card, hard drive, bios verion and settings, psu, cooling, etc is exactly the same.

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i did exaggerate on purpose. my point was to show that no o/c at all doesn’t mean the board is crappy, it means it doesn’t like components and will o/c some mhz with another set of mem and gpu...

ofc there are differences in o/c’ing as u said

Anyone tried to OC this card with a 6800 card??

weird , my SATA drive allows me to O/C to 400+FSB , whereas my IDE won't allow 360+ at ANY volts or setting.

I join the 500 club too~:woot:

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...ephen/club.jpg

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Originally Posted by kenofstephen

I join the 500 club too~:woot:

Picture of 400FSB

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Whats are your chipset V settings ?

Has anyone SETFSB/Clockgen for me that works on a DS3 ? Easytune sucks :/

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Originally Posted by The_Hardstylez

Whats are your chipset V settings ?

Has anyone SETFSB/Clockgen for me that works on a DS3 ? Easytune sucks :/

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the new SETFSB works fine

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Originally Posted by vintage_guitar

the new SETFSB works fine

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where can I find it ? I can't find it with google..

ok, i found it, works fine,


Thanks :)

where at?

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Originally Posted by The_Hardstylez

ok, i found it, works fine,


Thanks :)

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Originally Posted by The_Hardstylez

Whats are your chipset V settings ?

Has anyone SETFSB/Clockgen for me that works on a DS3 ? Easytune sucks :/

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do you mean MCH? just +0.1v:)

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Originally Posted by ocZZZ

where at?

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The official site here: http://www13.plala.or.jp/setfsb/

New SetFSB : for GA-965P - Supported Gigabyte GA-8I965P-DS3 (should be GA-965P-DS3)

http://www13.plala.or.jp/setfsb/down...a1_GA-965P.zip

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Originally Posted by kenofstephen

I join the 500 club too~:woot:

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Maybe im wrong but that is 400 fsb in the cpu-z screen.

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Originally Posted by Cranox

Maybe im wrong but that is 400 fsb in the cpu-z screen.

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Maybe he meant that benchmark score?

Aha , ok that explains it :)

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Originally Posted by drwowe

I installed the F4E beta bios today. It completely cured the "can't overclock" problem, even with dual channel RAM and a 7600gt GFX card. Everyone having these problems should try it.

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OK my board comes in tomorrow so where can I get the F4E BIOS? I can't find a beta bios section at gigabyte.

whats the different from F3 > F4E ? Higher fsb ?

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Originally Posted by The_Hardstylez

whats the different from F3 > F4E ? Higher fsb ?

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Not sure about fsb, but at least many issues has been fixed (PIO, Geforce7, CAS, and some other fixes).

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Originally Posted by ClockCatcher

Not sure about fsb, but at least many issues has been fixed (PIO, Geforce7, CAS, and some other fixes).

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were they?
are u sure 7600GS is working?
and CAS also?

i am sure about DS4, not DS3...

I am thinking about playing with a DS3 with an E6400, but I want to get some good RAM. What RAM works with this board. I like OCZ, but I can get anything else if its as high end stuff...

Alex

What about support ECC memory?