Gigabyte DS3 o/c'ing problems - post HERE !!!

[CrazyJohn]

The_Hardstylez update your bios to F3 or F4

I dont think your gfx is what is limiting your o/c... what happened to me was that i could not even enable cpu or pci-e clock control without it resetting the cmos settings

I think it has something to do with that some video cards are not compatible with some undocumented pci-e bus acceleration the DS3 does when you enable cpu clock control

THAT IS DAMN TRUE...

PEOPLE !!!


The o/cing problems are not the same...
we've got 2 categories:
1. no o/c at all
2. can't get more than xxxMhz...

the 1st one are people who cannot change pcie bus speed, or cannot change fsb with even 1Mhz...

the 2nd are people whos MBs are just crappy, or they have set sth wrong in bios...

ASAIK the problem of NO o/c at all can be fixed with a different VGA

the problem of being stuck at some xxxMhz with this USB sth setting in bios and ofc adding Volts, and... making the chipset colder!

[The_Hardstylez]

Thanks Crazyjohn, it works fine now

[rzrsk8]

Ok, I guess I'm adding myself to this list...in a strange way.

My setup:
E6300 (OEM from TD, Scythe Mine) and OCZ EL Gold 2x1 GB 5-5-5-12 2.0 volts in slots 1 and 3, ATI X1800XT, and PCI SB X-Fi Platinum (only PCI card).

My story:

Ok, here goes. When I first got the baord all set up, I ahd a hell of a time booting because of the ram being severely undervolted. Eventually I was stable enough to boot into BIOS using just a single stick of ram and disconnecting everything else but my processor and video card. Upped the ram by .2 volts, added everything else, and installed Windows using the F1 bios. Upgraded to the F3 BIOS (in F1, my CPU was reported in BIOS at 7x66 MHz...F3 fixed this). First tried OCing to 300 MHz FSB, booted no problem and was easily Prime stable. Bumped this to 320, ran dual SP2004 and got an error in one core after about 3 hours. Kind of dissappointed, I decided to run prime again, and this time was stable overnight. Figured something jsut got messed up, so I went back into BIOS, and booted at 400 MHz FSB (1:1 FSB:RAM) and was prime stable for 3 hours before I stopped it.

It wasn't until the next day that I decided to try gaming at these speeds. First time I loaded up CS:S, the computer locked up as soon as it was finished loading the level and getting me in-game. Strange, considering it went 3+ hours dual Prime. So I try Half-Life 2 (same engine, I know), and I get an error loading the game from Steam (don't remember the exact error). None of this happens at stock speeds when I reboot.

So, I decided to see if a little extra voltage would fix the problem. Back to BIOS, I upped the CPU voltage to the next setting (1.375 volts I believe), F10 to save it and exit. Posts fine, but now when I get to the Windows loading screen, it locks up after about 3 cycles of the little blue bar. Strange indeed. It does this consistently, about 5 times. I decided that it seemed to be something related to the HD since it didn't happen until Windows was loading, so I shut down and change my SATA drives from the orange (ICH8-controlled) ports 0 and 1 to Gigabyte's own controller (GSATA0 and GSATA1). Windows now loads without any hitch (but back at stock Vcore as I changed that after the first lockup).

So, back to BIOS to try the overclock. Set the FSB to 400, RAM still at 800, F10 and bam. PC won't even post. The videocard fan and CPU fan are running full-bore, but no video at all. The HD activity light almost makes it look like stuff isloading regularly, but no video and the full-bore fan (normally quiet). Shut down, pull the power cord and wait a few minutes, start up and the clock is reset to 1.86 Ghz and everything runs fine.

How strange is this? I've tried disabling bunches of different thigns but I'm getting tired of it. Updated BIOS to F4C to no avail. My temps with Prime at 2.8 Ghz were low - 32 C idle, 48 C full load.

Any ideas?

[ThermaltakeX]

Maybe we should ask Gigabyte to fix this issue.

I have called Gigabyte on this, I told them my specs, and they are ordering my exact parts to assemble my exact pc to run testing for this. When they find a solution (custom bios) they will contact/send me it.

[theteamaqua]

i have the crappy E6400, week 24 ... it sux

but im doing 3.4GHz screenshot in my sig

bigtphoon + 80CFM fan ... 110CFM too loud

[BottomsUp]

i have the crappy E6400, week 24 ... it sux

but im doing 3.4GHz screenshot in my sig

bigtphoon + 80CFM fan ... 110CFM too loud

why do you think your PSU will take you higher?

[CrazyJohn]

i'm writing a little faq on ds3 hope it would help some folks... i'll publish it later and maybe stick it - have to as a mod.

here u are:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...57#post1635957

[Khaotic]

How about, i'm just trying to install windows at defualt speeds to see if the board freakin' Works. and as soon as Windows says "Checking your hardware configuration" the screen goes blank. AT STOCK MEMORY AND CPU Settings.

I have SO totally lost my faith in Gigabyte. But what is the alternative - the Asus Pwhatever the heck it is. Everything I"m reading about that board says its a train wreck with bodies spread over a 100 mile radius.

[dualshock]

i'd like to post my findings that i made today...hope it'll help...

1. i'm still using the 7600gt to OC and to my surprise, when i switched it from DVI to vga output, the OC CAN be done. this may prove that probably my gfx actually have problem.

2. i'm able to OC using single channel of ram and not dual channel ie. using only 1 stick. i've ran dual channel to OC and it worked before, but somehow or rather, now only 1 stick will work with OC. both rams passed memtest. my opinion would be might be the value select ram is a bit too crappy to the board's liking.

3. try not to plug in USB mouse. my board is able to OC without USB mouse. Ps2 mouse will do just fine. this also applies to keyboard.

4. when i OC with all the above conditions, the enabling of usb legacy support doesn't really come into play. i guess it's not affecting mine.

that's all that i've found out for today. i'm still not OC-ing my board cos no PS2 mouse. btw, i'm getting another replacement gfx and hope to post more findings.

[CrazyJohn]

@dualshock

i'll put it in my faq if you have no objections

[BottomsUp]

How about, i'm just trying to install windows at defualt speeds to see if the board freakin' Works. and as soon as Windows says "Checking your hardware configuration" the screen goes blank. AT STOCK MEMORY AND CPU Settings.

I have SO totally lost my faith in Gigabyte. But what is the alternative - the Asus Pwhatever the heck it is. Everything I"m reading about that board says its a train wreck with bodies spread over a 100 mile radius.

what RAM you got? Try +.3vdimm. I had the same problem

[gam3r]

Hi guys. I have been having problems too over the weekend with:

E6300
DS3
2x1gb G.Skill PC2-5400 LA
ATI X1800XT

I wanted to post here about it, but i could not as i did not recieve an activation email

My system would overclock to 2.1GHz (300x7) with everything at default and 100% stable. Any furthur then i would experience blue screens in windows after some time like this:


and

and some others like that


I tried so many things, disabled everything in the bios and tried bios settings like people here..0.3v added to vdimm didn't do anything nor did the 0.1to the mch,pci-e etc...still the blue screens.

And what is weird as well, my ram would only work in slots 2 and 4 of the DS3. When i put my ram into slots 1 and 3 the pc and its fans would cycle on and off like what i have heard on here with the NR memory.

Eventually, i RMA'd the board and i'm about to RMA the memory but i'm not sure if i need to RMA the memory as i know someone who used this.

Can anyone tell me if my ram is ok? or will i have to RMA it. Im not sure if the PC2-5400 LA Gskill is compatible with the DS3 although i could run dual channel 2048MB in slots 2 and 4 100% stable.

Thanks

[BottomsUp]

Go RedSox! LOL

[garnin]

Ouch.. Boston.. RMAing to G Skill in California may take a while.

Add to that getting spanked by the yankees right now =P

[vintage_guitar]

Weird, mushkin ddr2 6400 ds3 e6400 combo, i manually set timings in bios with f4c flashed to 5-5-5-12 and they come up as 3-5-5-9 every time in cpu-z,i adjust them with memset 965p back to 5-5-5-15 hoping to get more than 325 FSB............ however, it seems 325 is the max for me???? i have EIST and all that throttle crap disabled, yet no luck at all? not even using a PCI-E GFX card...i tried lowering the MULTI to 6 or 7...doesn't matter, i can't get over 325 fsb, and it seems like it has something to do with timings being overidden. It also helped by putting my 2 sticks in RAM slots 1 and 3 , whereas 2 and 4 wouldn't allow 1mhz overclock. weird man

[badboy]

Mine doesn't budge a inch if I enable clocks. I get a beep and it shuts down.

[vintage_guitar]

screw this trash mobo, i'm taking it back.

[vintage_guitar]

my board will not post if i set PCI-E to 100 in bios from AUTO.... is this a normal bug? I'm using a regular PCI card.. nothing even in the slot. i'm pretty sure this is what's messing up my O/C, seems how i tried raising all voltages very high, and im still stuck at 325 with easytune/setFSB HOWEVER, i cannot OC 1MHZ in BIOS!!!!

[CrazyJohn]

read the faq
link in my sig

mem problem?

[vintage_guitar]

read the faq
link in my sig

mem problem?

no it's the mushkin that got reviews of 500 fsb
but i have a question, is this PCI-E problem just for this MOBO, or if i were to get some other 965p board(asus p5b deluxe) would i have this stupid problem

[CrazyJohn]

problem of a DS3, DS4 and DQ6 only.

mine got revievs of 550 and so what?:> this MB doesn;t like some mems. or i didn't get you.

[vintage_guitar]

it's not mem related, it's this pci-e thing, even though im not even ON a pci-e card

[dualshock]

vintage, try pulling out all your USB stuff...
plug in only the most basic connections, PS2 keyboard and vga cable (not dvi)

report back your findings...

[vintage_guitar]

vintage, try pulling out all your USB stuff...
plug in only the most basic connections, PS2 keyboard and vga cable (not dvi)

report back your findings...

I already did, heh i tried disabling the entire usb in bios...nothing works! I thought the problem was remedied by replacing the PCI-E card with a regular PCI one..however, mine remains, YES i cleared CMOS, YES, i tried ALL bios versions, nothing works!

[badboy]

vintage, try pulling out all your USB stuff...
plug in only the most basic connections, PS2 keyboard and vga cable (not dvi)

report back your findings...

If I have to do that just to get this motherboard to overclock then I will just get a different one to replace it. Both my $70 Logitech G7 mouse and G15 keyboard won't work even if I used a adapter to plug in the PS2 ports. Also why would put a slow as hell pci card to replace my $550+ pci-e 7950GX2 just get it to overclock. The motherboard worked fine when I had my Presler 920D in it but not this E6400. I figured out my problem. I now need better memory as it reverts the memory to 3,5,5,5,15 even though I set it to 5,5,5,15. I wasn't putting any clocks in the bios at all and I just set the memory to auto. I am thinking about getting these 2 memory manufactures. Or is there better?
http://www.tankguys.biz/ddr2-3338-p-...e85f4a723006d9
http://shop1.outpost.com/%7BGKrk0wgP...roduct/4815800