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

[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

[Shonky]

Hi folks, found this thread in my search for an answer to the problem I have with my DS3, but it appears that I am in the same boat.

You can add me to the list of the users unable to overclock their DS3 at all, well not from the bios anyway, can overclock using Easytune but would rather not use a software solution to do it since Easytune appears to have enough bugs itself.

Been through Gigabytes email support but got enough canned responses to open a can factory even when pointing out this thread.

CPU: Intel E6400
Motherboard: Gigabyte DS3 of course
Video: Palit 7900GT Sonic 512MB
Mem: OCZ PC2-5400, 2x512MB Sticks, Part No. OCZ26671024VPDC-K
Hard Drive: Maxtor 200GB SATA
Optical Drive: Pioneer 111D
Assorted USB peripherals.

Please Gigabyte, find a solution to this problem some time soon.

[C-BuZz]

Anyone know why I cant do Cas 5 1:1 on my DS3

If I set it at cas 5 bios it reads it sets it as Cas 3, which is why I cant get past 3.85Ghz (using Cas 4). If I could do Cas 5 I think 4Ghz easy as my mem is pretty stable @ 515Mhz doing Cas 5.

I cant change it in MemSet either as it just crashes.

I have manually set Cas Latency to 5 in bios. As you can see it actually sets it to Cas 3, which is preventing me doing 500+ fsb.



Currently using F4C bios.

I can do Cas 5 4:5 ok but not 1:1.

Thx

C-BuZz

[rzrsk8]

Here's a question to those that haven't been able to OC at all - which SATA ports are you using? The GSATA (controlled by the JMicron controller) or the orange ones (controlled by the ICH8 Intel southbridge)?

When I use the ICH8-controlled ports, I can successfully overclock in BIOS but lock up about 3 cycles (of the little blue thing) through in the XP loading screen (this began when I first tried to up my Vcore). When I use the GSATA (Jmicron) ports, I can't overclock at all.

Could someone else just try this out? When using the orange ports I can boot into safe mode, but as soon as my keyboard's numlock light comes on the XP loading screen just freezes. I don't really feel like reformatting but I would if that's what I need to do to fix the problem.