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

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I am at my WITS END! ... Sometimes when I power it on it will post, sometimes it won't, I tried instaling vista and it had some kind of weird error just loading in to the installation screen about winload.exe not being able to be loaded. Then I get some crazy weird trap exception error messages in the bios screen. It was just white text on black background during the bios post. It completely froze and I rebooted again and now the damn thing just sits here turning on off on off every second. Everything just spins up and starts and it just powers off again and cycles.
I've tried using just one stick of memory and reconnecting everything carefully but it appears this motherboard is

This just happened to me. Ive had the board for 4 months with no problems. Today it suddenly reverts to default fsb settings. No matter what I set, the board keeps booting at an fsb of 266mhz for my q6600. Any ideas? This isnt a stability problem, it wont even let me underclock the chip.
It happened today with the f9a bios. Updating to the f9d bios doesn't help.

Guys, If you pull out you cmos battery, can you boot?
use the clr cmos jumper on the board as well.
do you have any spare ddr2's you can use, buy some cheap ddr2 and test it then return 'em to your reseller, or borrow from a friend.
if you are getting errors booting up os, run memtest from boot disk and make sure you can pass tests 5 and 7 if you can get it to boot that is

I think the following info could be very useful
sounds like your primary and backup bios could be corrupted
and there might also be corruption on bioses on hdd
see red highlight below

How does Quad BIOS work?
Situation 1: Primary BIOS corrupted, backup bios okay
START
DualBIOS checks
both chips.

No message will
be shown if both
chips are working.
Power On
(BOOT UP) Both BIOS
chips are
working
(1) Primary BIOS Failed to boot

(2) System reset & backup BIOS activated
(3) Backup BIOS realize that main BIOS is corrupted
(4) Backup BIOS invoke 　　　　to recovery main BIOS
by copying backup to main BIOS
(5) Reset System
BOOT UP
Completed
　FINISH
Note:
The above processes are carried out automatically without waiting end-users to press any key.



Situation 2: Primary BIOS corrupted,
　　　　　　backup BIOS corrupted but capable of booting from boot block.
START

Power On
(BOOT UP)
(1)Primary BIOS Failed to boot
(2)System reset & backup BIOS activated
(3)Backup BIOS also find himself being destroyed
(4)Continue to boot from boot block and System search for "Saved" BIOS image in HDD hidden partition
(5)If matched BIOS be founded in HDD hidden partition, recovery BIOS from image saved in HDD
(6)The backup BIOS is recovered and Issue system reset
(7) Restart System (8) Backup BIOS realize that main BIOS is corrupted
　　(8) Backup BIOS invoke　　　　　　　　to recovery main BIOS by copying backup to main BIOS


(9) Reset System

BOOT UP
Completed
　　 Note:
　　　From step (4) to (6), it is the process of 　FINISH



Situation 3: Primary BIOS corrupted, backup BIOS corrupted but capable of booting
　　　　　　from boot block, no matched BIOS found in HDD hidden partition.

　START
Power On
(BOOT UP)
(1) Primary BIOS Failed to boot
(2) System reset & backup BIOS activated
(3) Backup BIOS also find himself being destroyed
(4) Continue to boot from boot block and System search for "Saved"
BIOS image in HDD hidden partition
(5) If no matched BIOS be founded in HDD hidden partition, BIOS continue to search for CD-ROM
(6) If matched BIOS image found in CD-ROM drive, that image will be programmed to
the still running backup BIOS image
(7) system reset will be issue continue to boot BOOT UP
Completed
FINISH

So if you can find your motherboard installation cd, put that in your cd-rom drive and try booting.
Always make sure your bios settings are rebooted on failsafe defaults before flashing to a new bios, ie. NO OVERCLOCK when flashing!!!