Forward: official GIGA 965P-S3/DS3/DS4/DQ6 beta BIOS

[Richard Dower]

I see DQ6 owners are getting screwed once again...no bios for us!

[ClockCatcher]

Hey! This F5 Final really helped me alot. On previous bios versions I got memory errors with memtest (in 10 minutes) and bluescreens with right stock ram settings (667mhz, 1.8V), but now with this new bios I haven't got any BSOD and also memtest run totally without any errors, so I'd say this helped my alot. So like they say on F5 Final description: "Fix some DDR667 compatibility issues", they really fixed that.

[shark2]

F4 out for DS4 users
get it here: http://www.jzelectronic.de/jz2/index.php

why are these new bio's not on the gigabyte websites if they are final?

I have tried to flash the F4 on my DS4 from flash895 but it says "bios file size error" .....before trying to force from the qflash and to make damages, someone has tried this bios?

[Eldonko]

What's wrong with F3? I can do 490 FSB, and mem works fine (including D9).

[Lestat]

Eldonko what board and what D9 ram ?
and are you able to go over 950mhz on the ram ? ie: 1000+ mhz 4-4-4

[Eldonko]

DQ6
BIOS F3G
Mush Redline 8k (D9GMH)

Tested to 502 3-4-3 @ 2.2v so far

[Lestat]

well thats the DQ6 lol..
ds3 has issues with the gskill 6400 HZ i can never remember which D9 that is.

and CAS 3 ?? ehhh you sure about that.... ?

and i did some testing.
my 32m times are slower at the same clock speeds than from the F4 wtf gigabyte wtf!!
i dont mean 1 sec slow either. im talking 10 seconds

[shark2]

infact also I arrive to 495 of fsb and the memories works fine with F3 and F4C bios for DS4...doesn't change nothing, but the coupled DS4+6600 Boxed don't get on well together at least to me.....and therefore I would want to try new bios





P.S. - sorry for my English


EDIT: Eldonko you have the DQ6 I spoke of the DS4...however nobody knows nothing for the error of the flash?

[Eldonko]

well thats the DQ6 lol..
ds3 has issues with the gskill 6400 HZ i can never remember which D9 that is.

and CAS 3 ?? ehhh you sure about that.... ?

I set cas 3 myself with memset so unless it doesnt work properly then cas 3 is correct.

1 issue I have though is the memory timings appear in the BIOS on occasion but 99% of the time they are not there and I dont know what I did to make em appear. Same w/ EIST, it just disappears sometimes... :o

[Eldonko]

Not sure shark2, never got that error when flashing before.

[Lestat]

bios file size error means its a bad download
redownload the bios and try again.
if it does it again
try downloading from a different place

[Phosphate]

Hey! This F5 Final really helped me alot. On previous bios versions I got memory errors with memtest (in 10 minutes) and bluescreens with right stock ram settings (667mhz, 1.8V), but now with this new bios I haven't got any BSOD and also memtest run totally without any errors, so I'd say this helped my alot. So like they say on F5 Final description: "Fix some DDR667 compatibility issues", they really fixed that.

Hmmmm................now if only the micron D9MGH sticks work well things will be looking up. Hopefully by the time I get ready to upgrade to a 2 GB kit that will happen.

[mascaras]

Hmmmm................now if only the micron D9MGH sticks work well things will be looking up. Hopefully by the time I get ready to upgrade to a 2 GB kit that will happen.

i got teamgroup PC5300 D9MGH and no problems (446 FSB 1:1 ):

[cliffy]

Strange things happening tonight. I updated the bios on my ds3 some hopurs ago, tested it and was unable to acheive any extra OC, stuck at 450FSB. Just been playing with it again (the bios ) and can now hit a FSB of 477 and thats with out adding any extra volts to PCI-e, FSB or GMCH. Not sure what happened to suddenly allow it to go but it has. On a side note any one have any ideas on the re cord for air cooled e6400, just got mine into windows at 3.8Ghz but was not quite stable enough to run SPI

[Delphi00]

How's the F5g for the DS3?

[Lestat]

How's the F5g for the DS3?

oh boy you really need to get with the program kiddo.

F5 final is released F5g is a beta.

listen we have discussed this soooo many times before and this is why i harp on people to READ THE GOD BLASTED THREAD!!

Gigabyte names the BETA bios's with a letter, such as F5a, b, c, d, e,f , g
their RETAIL bios does not have a bios. ie,,, F5
the next beta bios to be released should be F6a or b or c or something like that.

[Lestat]

also let me restate the whole Micron D9 issue.

the micron D9 ram runs just FINE up to around 950mhz..... after that.. its down the toilet.. not even 5-5-5-15 is stable and being forced by gigabyte to use 5-5-5-15 on ram that is VERY capable of 4-4-4-12 is absolutely retarded.

Gigabyte has programed the bios in such a way as to totally fuxxor anyone with the D9 ram that is in the Teamgroup and Gskill 800 and 667 kits.

again this is the DS3 not the DQ4 or 6... i have seen people say that DQ6 doesnt have any issues so god knows wtf is wrong with the DS3.. but gigabyte can fix it they just wont...

so saying 445mhz is no problem doesnt show anything.

go into the bios and set the ram so it runs 1000mhz 4-4-4-15 and se if you can even reboot. i bet it wont boot if it does itsdefinately not stable.
now try 2.3 or 2.4v which again is taking the voltage of the ram out of spec and not good so be sure you have active cooling.
i bet it still wotn work.
now set 5-5-5-15 it might work it might not... now try running some tests see what happens... in windows please DOS driven memtest has shown itself to be buggy with this setup..

try it see what happens.

anything over 950mhz is flakey at best. and isnt stable at all.

[Delphi00]

oh boy you really need to get with the program kiddo.

F5 final is released F5g is a beta.

listen we have discussed this soooo many times before and this is why i harp on people to READ THE GOD BLASTED THREAD!!

Gigabyte names the BETA bios's with a letter, such as F5a, b, c, d, e,f , g
their RETAIL bios does not have a bios. ie,,, F5
the next beta bios to be released should be F6a or b or c or something like that.

Sorry, didn't see it listed in the main gigabyte website but I found it anyway.

Do I NEED to load fail-safe and then reset my cmos after I flash?

[Richard Dower]

Yes, load optimised defaults.

[Lestat]

Yes, load optimised defaults.

yup just as richard said.

go into the bios hit F8 then Yes.,,, then update from floppy...
then it will show you the bios name it sees on the floppy...

ok wait.. why am i explaining this. this is the most simple and easiest bios flashing ever lol.

when its done reload and laod setup defaults.. save and exit.. then go back into the bios and start overclocking.

[N15M0]

Where you all get the F3G bios for th eDQ6?

[GAM]

Where you all get the F3G bios for th eDQ6?

DQ6 (current) beta: F4d

Above BIOS, older BIOS and new BIOS (when available) for various GB boards can be downloaded fom this page: http://www.jzelectronic.de/jz2/index.php
Go to end of page and select applicable BIOS from popup menu.

[ZachSaw]

My SATA2 seagate harddisk running in ACHI mode (Gigabyte RAID) seems to be unable to boot up at times. It's only in rare occassions, but it happens. The Gigabyte RAID bios detected the HDD, but it doesn't try to boot from the HDD at all. All I get is "Disk boot failure" after seeking for boot sector in my floppy (didn't have a startup disk in there).

Amazingly though, once I press CTRL+ALT+DEL, and it restarted, the drive will boot just fine. Again, this happens once in a blue moon.

Don't know if this is BIOS related, but I started seeing this problem only after F4 beta. The F5s didn't fix it. I can't test each bios to be certain since it's intermittent. Anyone else facing this problem?

[GAM]

Resetting itself to backup bios, maybe? I did see someone else post a similar if not same problem. Don't recall where though, sorry.

[Ajfina]

Im currentely running my Corsair 6400C4 at 890 , 4-4-4-12 2.1V , gonna try to run then higher than that