** Official ** Gigabyte UD3 P45 Series -- EP45-UD3 / EP45-UD3R / EP45-UD3P

[BoredByLife]

A simple question, I am having fun with this board (EP45-UD3P), but the latest F10 bios is rather crap for overclocking. Does any of you still have the F11c bios laying around? I cant find it anywhere.
It would be really appreciated.

[stasio]

http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte...beta-bios.html

[BoredByLife]

http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte...beta-bios.html

Thank you! I was searching for F11C since i thought that was the latest, guess i was wrong. Thanks a lot.

[BoredByLife]

I have a strange problem (all bioses) I have a very stable overclock. (8.5 * 500 FSB) linpack stable, OCCT stable. Everything nice and neat. I booted with these settings. Now when i reboot. The MB 'detects' this is not stable, it goes into boot, reboot phase, untill the default BIOS settings are restored.
I know I am a few years late, but wtf?

[Don_Dan]

The reboot loop is a well-known problem for many P45 boards unfortunately. Does it boot if you change to your settings after resetting itself to BIOS defaults?

[BoredByLife]

The reboot loop is a well-known problem for many P45 boards unfortunately. Does it boot if you change to your settings after resetting itself to BIOS defaults?

When i save my OC settings in bios again. It boots normally again. Leaving the PC a little time off. I don't mind the boot/reboot loop as long as it applies my stable settings :p
The problems occurs when i restart from windows it seems.

BTW, my overclock is 8.5 * 500, ram at 500 (DDR2) PL9 1.26Vcore. Is this considered any good?

[OC Nub]

Decided to go back in time a few years and re-try this board.

Got 3rd in q9650 hardware ranking at HWBot with this 32m run. Would need the T board to do any better I think, but still pretty happy with the score.

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

^ just awesome man, one of the most fun setups to bench ever!

[OC Nub]

^ just awesome man, one of the most fun setups to bench ever!

Thanks!

I had a lot of fun with this setup also.

I had all but forgotten what a real boot loop was, and what it was like not having an onboard clear cmos, reset, and power button

[vailr]

Greetings,

I find mention of a F14 BIOS for the EP45-UD3R on several sites, but can only seem to find F13e. Does anyone know where to find F14?

-Thanks

There's actually 2 different version of the EP45-UD3R board.
I've had good results with the modded F12 bios for the Rev. 1.0 board here:

http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte...fied-bios.html

GA-EP45-UD3R Rev 2.0 Bios F13e
Updated with...
IRST 11.1.0.14.13
Realtek 2.46
Jmicron 1.07.28
EP45UD3RMOD_F13e_4_7_12

GA-EP45-UD3R Rev 1.0 Bios F12
Updated with...
Intel RAID Updated to: 11.5.0.1347
JMicron RAID Updated to: 1.07.28
RealTek PXE Updated to: 2.47
GA-EP45-UD3R_Rev.1.0_F12_6_12_12

[alamakluke]

Hi guys... I recently purchased a EP45-UD3P r 1.6 motherboard from eBay because I wanted to use this board as a bench board only and it's list of compatible CPU's was insane. I received the board no issues, looks in mint shape no damage (accept the locking pin on PCIe slot1 was broken off). No worries there.

My issue is that I cannot for the life of me flash the latest FFb BIOS from Gigabyte. The mobo currently has bios FD. Actually both BIOS's on the mobo are at FD. I've tried Qflash and @BIOS and they both fail while erasing the chip. Another thing I
notice is that I cannot save any CMOS settings onto the available slots. I can save my CMOS to my HDD but the actual BIOS chip. I have tried bios FA,FB and FFb and they all fail. I have also tired by passing my main bios by setting up a jump on pin 5 and 6 on the main bios forcing the main bios to by flash again from the backup bios and I still can't flash the main bios. Has anybody heard of this issue? Looking on google I have found 1 other guy that had the same issue as me and he as well was not able to get his bios flash.

I have tried so many things. Like different RAM, CPU,PSU and video card.

One thing I can do though is save my BIOS onto the HDD or usb stick and then I am able to re-flash my bios onto the chip, but I cannot flash a new bios to the chip I am completely lost.

Any help would be awesome. thanks in advance

[Don_Dan]

I've never had this problem, sorry mate.

Have you contacted Gigabyte Support yet?

[jimba86]

hey guys,

So I have wanted to hunt down a p45-UD3P for a while and finally found 2 but I can only get 1.

one is a version 1.0 and one is a version 1.1

Which for a straight overclocking board would be better? I will be using celerons and D's),Pentium 4's, Core 2 duos and quads.

I might be putting the board under cold in the future so that would have to be considered.

I though I would ask here as XS seems to be knowledge with this board.

opinions/Advice?

[Don_Dan]

I'd go with the v1.0 board, but they should both be good. v1.6 is worse than the two other versions though.

[jimba86]

I'd go with the v1.0 board, but they should both be good. v1.6 is worse than the two other versions though.

So dont get the 1.1 version? some have said it is a bit better or doesnt it matter?

[Don_Dan]

If some say it is better you should trust them, though my v1.0 board is doing fine...