Official GIGABYTE X38-DQ6/X38T-DQ6 Info/BIOS Thread

[GAR]

I've tested 2 of them in a week. PCI-e was set from Auto to 129 no prob at all with 3d marks and card clocks:
8800GT:
2006 @ 700/1728/2100 mhz
15818 p





The second :

2006@720/1782/2000 mhz
15846 p

What do you have the graphics robust on auto or turbo???

[GAR]

also, 3dmark and ati tool are no longe a good way to test stability.............try crysis

[DStealth]

What do you have the graphics robust on auto or turbo???

Turbo all the way, never lowered that value also memory extreme - maybe is only me too speed addicted and never set them lower
I just tested these two cards, when they come on the marked in a week or two and then returned them, so i didn't care about stability. I love my GTX and there's still nothing to change it with

Q6600@4213mhz ambient water cooled
Single 8800gtx@730/1944/2322 mhz
53600


6652 cpu score in 2006 on water
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=3633135

[GAR]

Turbo all the way, never lowered that value also memory extreme - maybe is only me too speed addicted and never set them lower
I just tested these two cards, when they come on the marked in a week or two and then returned them, so i didn't care about stability. I love my GTX and there's still nothing to change it with

Q6600@4213mhz ambient water cooled
Single 8800gtx@730/1944/2322 mhz
53600


6652 cpu score in 2006 on water
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=3633135

What voltage are you using for your pci-e in bios?

[DStealth]

What voltage are you using for your pci-e in bios?

That's the strangest moment +0.35v if i remember correct But 1 time that gives me no boot after setting to Auto all works perfect, if set to auto = no boot then set to +0.35 and all work Long story short - try these 2 combinations and the 1 works when other don't

[Glorfindel]

Hi guys!!

Ok i intalled all my new rig yesterday, freshly RMA'ed board, new cooling loop.

Pushed the power button...Boot...off...Boot...off!!!! Noooo! the infamous on-off cycle!! Removed the batt, wait 5 min....On and off again...Almost started to cry...

Wait!! Remove the memory stick, put it in the other bank and tadam!!!!! It worked!!! I even booted directly to windows without any prob!! No need to re-intall XP.

Since the first board didnt even boot, that was a huge improvement, Temp are ok since i didnt even clean the cpu and simply put the fuzion block wihtout cleaning or adding new paste, i will re-install everything clean this week (i'm still waiting for my new psu (ocz 700W)

I played a little bit in bios, i'm at 8x400 by now and it's stable, with load temp at about 58-60C@1.4v Should drop that a little bit with clean setup, by now i have 10' long tubing...

I will play more when i will have my new psu, i dont trust my Ultra-X3 crappy one.

[century child]

BIOS F5G solved my previous problem of not being able to overclock. Well, I could overclock but as soon as I did a cold boot my OC settings would get thrown out. Guess F3 didn't like my Cellshock RAM.

[koc]

Well

I think I took all what I could from the mobo

at least untill next version of bios



I was able to boot to 3.870 ( 430x9 ) , but the system not stable

Im happy that i could overclocked my memory to 1130

[Richard Dower]

What do you have the graphics robust on auto or turbo???

I leave it on auto, you can always overclock the card within Windows.

[Richard Dower]

Can anyone access this website: www.station-drivers.com

??...i haven't been able to access it for days.

[GAR]

Thanks for the info Richard.

[Richard Dower]

Couple of new X38 reviews:

http://www.pro-clockers.com/review.php?id=274&page=1

http://www.hardwareoc.at/Gigabyte_GA-X38-DQ6.htm

[Richard Dower]

New Intel Matrix Storage manager, WHQL'd..version 7.8.0.1012:

http://downloadmirror.intel.com/1484...iata78_enu.exe

[Richard Dower]

I extracted the drivers and uploaded them:

http://rapidshare.com/files/69083643...river.rar.html

WHQL'd and dated September 29th 2007, you'll need to put these on a floppy or a USB Flash drive when doing a fresh install of your OS.

[Richard Dower]

64bit drivers:

http://rapidshare.com/files/69084563...ver64.rar.html

[k-9]

I have it yesterday, X38T-DQ6, just a quick test with GSKILL F3-12800CL7D-2GBHZ, also flash two bios F3g and F4a, bios F4a is terrible

700@6-6-6-16 . Pi32MB



720@6-6-6-16

[century child]

Well I wrote too soon. The cold boot problem reared it's ugly head again. I tried flashing to the latest beta because it stated that it fixes a problem with settings being randomly lost but that BIOS is terrible. I can barely get it to boot at stock settings. Back to F5G and as soon as I cold boot, OC settings get thrown out. Strangely, I haven't seen anyone else mention this problem.

[jonny_ftm]

ok guys, a problem i had with the maximus as well, i am using vista x64 and OCCT 1.1.1B wont pass, im using custom RAM test for 1 hr, says crashed, prime blend passes, memtest passed as well.......wierd how both maximus and gigabyte failed OCCT, im starting to think this program sucks....anyone else????

Try F@H for 12/24h once you can afford it. If OCCT RAM fails, suerely F@H will fail also, I even find it more sensitive than OCCT RAM, but it will need too much time while OCCT does it in 1-2h run. As I told you before, try OCCT RAM on stock settings, if it works, you get your answers.

I'm desperately looking at these X38 boards threads, and all the time, same problems I now have on my P5B deluxe when I want to exceed 390MHz FSB: all passes, but OCCT RAM (1-2h) and F@H 10h reboot. Looks like I should stick to my P5B deluxe since the problem looks the same, just some 10-15MHz FSB more stability with the X38

[GAR]

OCCT weird program because it doesnt really fail, screen goes blank and occt is still running, it makes windows explorer crash...i loose my background but when it recovers occt is still running.

[GAR]

anyone have any problems with divider 4:5................sometimes it boots, sometimes it doesnt, when it booted it passed memtest with no issues, this is with bios f5h, it worked finr with f3 but i had less bandwidth........f5 gives better memory performance.

[TiRoye]

DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT USE THE NEW GIGABYTE F4A bios on the DQ6T.

Multipliers and FSB are no longer adjustable. It forced me to boot at 6 X 333 - 2.0 GHz and 1333 mhz frequency. And I am stuck there.

I flashed back to F3i and everything is fine again.
I AM SO PISSED OFF WITH GIGABYTE RIGHT NOW

Good day
I have the same problem, and I realy dont know what I need to do.

Can some one help me? I know it's the Bios the problem, but I don't know what I need to change to have 3.0 GHz again thank you for your help
and special thanks to you SGT Viper

Gigabyte X38T-DQ6 - rev 0.1 F3i bios
Intel Core 2 DUO E6850
Corsair TWIN3 X2048-1800C7DF
BFG GeForce 8800GTX PCIE OC2
WD 150GB SATA 10K RPM 16MB
Seagate 500GB SATAII 16MB
Auzentech X-FI Prelude 7.1 Sound Card
OCZ GamesStream 1010W Power Supply
Windows XP Sp2 Pro
Thermaltake VA9000BWS Series Tower Case

[Richard Dower]

Can someone *PLEASE* check to see if www.station-drivers.com is down or not!!!

I haven't been able to access the site in days.

[TiRoye]

Can someone *PLEASE* check to see if www.station-drivers.com is down or not!!!

I haven't been able to access the site in days.

Yes Station-drivers is down, 1 week now


Do you have a answer about my problem?
thank for your help

[REVHEAD]

New Intel Matrix Storage manager, WHQL'd..version 7.8.0.1012:

http://downloadmirror.intel.com/1484...iata78_enu.exe

Cheers ,allways piece of mind for me to have the very latest drivers haha,tnaks for the link

[jonny_ftm]

OCCT weird program because it doesnt really fail, screen goes blank and occt is still running, it makes windows explorer crash...i loose my background but when it recovers occt is still running.

Bah, if RAM fails or the NB, you'll get such windows errors, OCCT RAM is stressing too much your RAM-NB subsystem

In the maximus thread, someone monitored a voltage drop of the RAM till a lower limit corresponding to the crash/errors. It reveals a heat issue on the 2 PWM of this board sourcing the RAM modules. Give it a check maybe it'll help you. And again, if OCCT is stable on stock and unstable on OC, it is rather bad news for your settings

By the way, what OC did you achieve now on the X38-DQ6, do you still have the Prime load issue you had on the Maximus?