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

[Ajfina]

I just want to be able to restart my computer... and not have to reinstall the x-fi drivers. Overclocking more would be nice.

that is very fvcked up dude , im glad i dont have that x-fi thing , that ds3 by now it be broken in 4 peaces ready to go on the garbage FOR REAL if that happens to me

[TKC]

Then it could be related to G.SKILL and how they have programmed the SPD.
Are you adding any juice to the (G)MCH and FSB?

(G)MCH +0.3
FSB +0.2

Regards

[Richard Dower]

Yes, but you're using an Allendale which is known to afford a higher FSB then their Conroe counterparts.

[TKC]

Yup, but not my week 23 E6300, it meet rock wall at 460x7 with liquid cooling, another +1 Mhz cause system become unstable at all.
Temp. isn't the problem for sure, at 461 full load I read 68C from Core Temp and 56C from ET5 when ambient around 25C, almost the same as 460, it just not as healthy as week 25 E6300 I think.
May be I will also buy E6600 following your step
BTW, I can't say any difference between F7 and F6 on DQ6.

[Emperium]

Here I'am guys!!

I sold my DQ6 and bought a P5B Deluxe..

I am running this for 2 weeks now.. and I must say MORE stable then my old DQ6. Im now running without any problem 400x7 and Iám happy now.

I say if you have problems with Gigabyte boards, get yourself an P5B Deluxe!

[aldamon]

The DS3 Micron D9 issues have been isolated to a series of sub-timings in the BIOS and a resistor on the board. Changing out this resistor and utilizing the latest beta BIOS resulted in a very stable 7x510FSB with an X6800 and 7x525FSB with a good E6300. Gigabyte will release a final BIOS on or around the 16th of this month that should result in 480~490FSB capability with the majority of D9 modules, anything higher on the current board will require the resistor change. Hopefully I can get a "how to" posted on it before I leave tomorrow (it will void your warranty, repeat it will void your warranty), if not it will be on Friday or later.

I can live with 480 - 490. I doubt my E6300 can get to 3.5 GHz anyway. I just hope the words "should" and "majority" in that statement don't come back to haunt me somehow. Thanks for the update.

[ScythedBlade]

Well, it's not that it isn't overclockable, but like ... my ram is running at 4-4-4-9 at 438 Mhz ... perfectly. But even if I loose it to 5-5-5-15, it can't go any higher. THAT's the problem ...

[Jodiuh]

Picked up a P5B Saturday @ 9PM from Fry's in AZ as the Tuniq Tower wasn't going to fit on my DS3 w/ Jing Ting and I wasn't about to let that little NB cooler take care of the job.

It cost me $130 to upgrade as I didn't have my receipt, but I'm hoping it's going to be worth it. I've noticed IRQ's seem to be spaced out a bit more appropriate, but there's many other items to explore. One of which includes my RAMsies. Do I have D9? There the Patriot 667's w/ black pcb that seemed to hit a wall around 450 no matter what vdimm.

Sorry about the crazyness of this post, but I feel the need to say goodbye to all of you who've helped this become a part of my daily reading...LESTAT!!!!!!!!! I'm thinking of you here...even tho, we've disagreed, your promptedness and eventual professionalism have motivated me to hook you up with a goodie. PM ME!!

Anyways, CHEERS!! And good luck fellow DS3'ers! At least you don't have to worry about the crazy on the NB of Asus P5B!!

Cheers,

Jod!!

(Amberbock pulled me through this...so blame them!)

[JPH1589]

The DS3 Micron D9 issues have been isolated to a series of sub-timings in the BIOS and a resistor on the board. Changing out this resistor and utilizing the latest beta BIOS resulted in a very stable 7x510FSB with an X6800 and 7x525FSB with a good E6300. Gigabyte will release a final BIOS on or around the 16th of this month that should result in 480~490FSB capability with the majority of D9 modules, anything higher on the current board will require the resistor change. Hopefully I can get a "how to" posted on it before I leave tomorrow (it will void your warranty, repeat it will void your warranty), if not it will be on Friday or later.

I find it very odd that this is the only place on the entire web that this has been mentioned.

Doesn't anyone else find that odd?

[msgclb]

the Tuniq Tower wasn't going to fit on my DS3 w/ Jing Ting and I wasn't about to let that little NB cooler take care of the job.

Hope you haven't gone to far!

If you didn't use the Jing Ting would the Tuniq Tower work with the DS3? Every time someone has said it's in stock I find a zero balance. It's either very popular or very few are being made.

Even your new board has it's problems.

[Jodiuh]

I actually stuck the Tuniq on there, but forgot about the fan. I believe it might fit if put on w/ parallel to GPU. That is, blowing air north.

Core temp's reading almost 8C less than Ninja tho, so I'm in heaven...

[msgclb]

Doesn't anyone else find that odd?

No.

You're not going to get an official word on any beta bios from GB. You have to rely on back channel communication and pray it's reliable.

Have you thought about changing your avatar from Ben to Darth? You're always on the dark side!

[JPH1589]

No.

You're not going to get an official word on any beta bios from GB. You have to rely on back channel communication and pray it's reliable.

Have you thought about changing your avatar from Ben to Darth? You're always on the dark side!

That announcement from bingo was about a fault in the board, not just new bios. The fault not only affects overclocking, but it hampers people from running memory at its rated speed. I wasn't remarking that Gigabyte hadn't made an announcement. I was remarking that this has not been disclosed anywhere else on the net. There are plenty of well known hardware review sites who have been all over this D9 micron issue from the beginning and if something like this were confirmed, they would have leaked it already.

As for the choice of avatar, Ben is the logical one and Vadar was the irrational one. I think my chioce is very appropriate.

[msgclb]

I was remarking that this has not been disclosed anywhere else on the net. There are plenty of well known hardware review sites who have been all over this D9 micron issue from the beginning and if something like this were confirmed, they would have leaked it already.

I actually think that they are busy with the 680i boards.

I'm hoping that Gary Key at AnandTech will soon have something on this.

[aldamon]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messagev...&enterthread=y

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Gary Key
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The DS3 Micron D9 issues have been isolated to a series of sub-timings in the BIOS and a resistor on the board. Changing out this resistor and utilizing the latest beta BIOS resulted in a very stable 7x510FSB with an X6800 and 7x525FSB with a good E6300. Gigabyte will release a final BIOS on or around the 16th of this month that should result in 480~490FSB capability with the majority of D9 modules, anything higher will require the resistor change. Hopefully I can get a "how to" posted on it before I leave tomorrow (it will void your warranty, repeat it will void your warranty), if not it will be on Friday. I will have more details later in the week.

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Consider the issue confirmed if Gary is going to repeat it.

[JPH1589]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messagev...&enterthread=y

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Gary Key
AnandTech Editor

Posts: 350
Joined: 09/23/2005


The DS3 Micron D9 issues have been isolated to a series of sub-timings in the BIOS and a resistor on the board. Changing out this resistor and utilizing the latest beta BIOS resulted in a very stable 7x510FSB with an X6800 and 7x525FSB with a good E6300. Gigabyte will release a final BIOS on or around the 16th of this month that should result in 480~490FSB capability with the majority of D9 modules, anything higher will require the resistor change. Hopefully I can get a "how to" posted on it before I leave tomorrow (it will void your warranty, repeat it will void your warranty), if not it will be on Friday. I will have more details later in the week.

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Consider the issue confirmed if Gary is going to repeat it.

This confirms two things, first it is highly probable that the information is acurate. Second, this was posted before bingo posted the exact same thing. He copied it so completely he says he is leaving tomorrow also. LOL

Next you will be trying to tell me that Bingo and Gary are one in the same? LOL.

[xHaste]

Hi,

I've found another weird X-Fi (eXtreme music) behavior with the DS4. It was quite hard fo find what is causing it. If you play movie (no matter what type) for a longer time period (30minutes - 2 hours) you will notice some skips in playback. It looks like the movie freezes for a 200ms+ or so and resumes playback. You will notice some jitter and frame dev. in Video Renderer properties.

Now, how did i get to X-Fi?
1. Clean XP SP2 install, newest XviD/DivX decoder and video on software rendering, no sound... playback OK, NO skips
2. add X-Fi drivers and software video rendering... skips
3. unistall X-fi,disable X-Fi, install newest Catalyst 6.10 ... No skips
4. enable X-Fi, install newest X-Fi drivers, install newest Catalyst 6.10 ... skips

I've moved the card from the PCI2 to PCI1 with no result.
Setting PCI latency to 64/128..not much better.
BIOSes... F4 (nice BIOS X-Fi is not reinstalling after reboot) skips
F5 (some X-Fi reinstalling) minor skips. With PCI latency to 128 almost without skips.
F6-F7b...X-Fi reinstalling and skips...

I should mention that its quite hard to locate the problem becouse this small skips appear only once or twice in 2 hours movie.
Any ideas ?

[msgclb]

Hopefully I can get a "how to" posted on it before I leave tomorrow (it will void your warranty, repeat it will void your warranty), if not it will be on Friday. I will have more details later in the week.

Now the question is who's going where, when was tomorrow, which Friday and later in which week?

[JPH1589]

Now the question is who's going where, when was tomorrow, which Friday and later in which week?

LOL........I knew i was right about this guy. I understand everyone's unwillingness to see it, and I forgive you for the comments you made about me, but now it is in black and white. No shades of grey anymore.

The only thing that is still unknown is, could they be the same person? I very much doubt it.

[markopoleo]

I just want to be able to restart my computer... and not have to reinstall the x-fi drivers. Overclocking more would be nice.

Jondel you should not have to be doing that, you have F7 bios? You overclocking or no? Did you try putting X-Fi in diffrent PCI slots?

[jondl]

Jondel you should not have to be doing that, you have F7 bios? You overclocking or no? Did you try putting X-Fi in diffrent PCI slots?

It's not too much of a problem but rather an annoyance. I find myself desperately holding down the power button whenever my computer restarts from bios setting changes or restarting after installing a driver, program, etc.

Anyway, i'm pretty sure others are experiencing the same thing. Theres no fix for it yet. I am overclocking with the F7 bios and tried everything. Switched PCI slots and reinstalled drivers, setting pci latencies, etc and nothing works. All i can do is not restart

Btw, anyone knows if GB actually releases a fix would i be able to even take advantage of the D9 fix? My overclock is stable at 485x7 right now. It can go to 490 but at higher voltages and isn't worth it to me.

[HamidFULL]

Damn you bingo!

[Lestat]

LOL........I knew i was right about this guy. I understand everyone's unwillingness to see it, and I forgive you for the comments you made about me, but now it is in black and white. No shades of grey anymore.

The only thing that is still unknown is, could they be the same person? I very much doubt it.

This confirms two things, first it is highly probable that the information is acurate. Second, this was posted before bingo posted the exact same thing. He copied it so completely he says he is leaving tomorrow also. LOL

Next you will be trying to tell me that Bingo and Gary are one in the same? LOL.

considering you have done nothing but b|tch and complain, openly dog and belittle bingo and anyone who doesnt wear a name tag that fully anounces who they are and who they work for,, you have done nothing for the forward movement of this thread, may i stand up and speak for the group and say.

"There is the god damn door you little child, grow up and dont let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out"

why dont you just go find another forum or at the least, another forum section to lurk in.

i don't think one person here will disagree with me

[markopoleo]

Jodel the overclocking prob has something to do with it, when i tried to overclock it would not detect the X-Fi in windows. /shrug

[JPH1589]

considering you have done nothing but b|tch and complain, openly dog and belittle bingo BLAH BLAH BLAH.....

The facts don't lie. But you of course have the choice to ignore them. That is your option. I really would stop being so theatric though. It really isn't needed here.