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[burn what?]

Does anyone know if Newegg is clearing out all the ole rev 1s or if they are selling rev 2 yet?

I had one that would not hold the OC on a cold boot, but was 100% stable once running. I need more vdimm than 2.1v (P5B-E) and was thinking of trying another one if I could get a rev 2.

Does anyone here have a rev 2 that still has cold boot issues?

thanks

i just bought 4 ds3's from the egg and all were rev. 2. i haven't tried any oc yet on them, but are definitely different. nice labeling on the board itself, such as front panel jumpers. i'll prob start some oc's monday and tues if ya want to check back here

[Richard Dower]

New Jmicron drivers, for Vista and XO, WHQL:

ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/Win2k_xp_Vista/

There's also some drivers updates over at Gigabyte.

[HamidFULL]

NEW Gigabyte 975X-DS5 Review (56K friendly!) :
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=133512

[soodent]

For DS3 F10 bios memory option 2 is significally better for micron D9GCT.Not entering win with option 1 and 8x417mhz and stable 8x420mhz with option 2 cl4-4-4-12 for both.Cold boot not yet discovered with F10.Biosis F8 ,F9 both gave me cold boot problem.F7 no cold boot was previous stable 8x415mhz and e6600.

[ziddey]

My ds3 rev2 roasted itself overnight again. This time I think it's dead for good.

I remember waking up to some noise. I'm not sure if it was a bad noise or just the post beep. But regardless, that's all I heard and went back to bed. Then today, I woke up and found the dreaded windows cannot load c:\windows\system\________ message and it halted there. I rebooted to see if it'd change but no dice. I went in bios and dropped pcie from 106 to 100. Note fsb is 400fsb right now. Reboot and it says boot block recovering bios from hard disk and then it reboots again. Then now it's in infinite up down loop restart mode again. I've been clearing bios and pulling ram left and right but it doesn't seem to be responsive at all this time around.

[Richard Dower]

NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

We should start a collection and get you a new mobo, $1 to PayPal.

[Darkoz]

Here's a review of the DQ6 revision 3.3
Although they incorrectly state that one of the differences with the rev. 3.3 and the original DQ6 is that the original had electrolyte capacitors and we all know (except apparently the reviewer) that all revisions of the DQ6 have solid capacitors.

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1048

[JokerCPoC]

I have a DS3 rev 2.0 that I bought and I plan to put a QX6700 Core 2 Extreme cpu in It, When overclocking It, Can the multiplier be raised across all 4 cores evenly when over clocking? I know that in My P5W this is the case. I'm cursed of course with using PC2-8000 OCZ Gold xtc ram(5-6-6-15-43) and a 750w Thermaltake Toughpower psu, At least the rest of the PC will use as little as possible power consumption wise as possible, For example: NX6200TC, Lite-on DVD, 36Gb raptor, Sound absorbing foam pads and a Vigor Monsoon II TEC cpu cooler(It expels a good deal of heat on the P5W at 3.38GHz(It can heat up a room), CPU is 36C by Speedfan and the Front hardware panel Temperature says 46C right now(Daytime as much as 45-48C depending on the rooms temperature) and the P5W runs 24/7). But then It's not a Game Machine, It's a Seti cruncher and doesn't need a large hdd or a fancy video card.

[HeadOn]

This is weird, my orthos keeps freezing at less than 10 minutes. I'm trying to get a stable 3.5GHz with vcore at 1.45v and MCH at +.3v. What could be the cause of the freeze? Does it look like I need more vcore? It has also frozen a few times while I was gaming.

[skitlets]

This is weird, my orthos keeps freezing at less than 10 minutes. I'm trying to get a stable 3.5GHz with vcore at 1.45v and MCH at +.3v. What could be the cause of the freeze? Does it look like I need more vcore? It has also frozen a few times while I was gaming.

From my personal experience, freezing is associated with ram instability. Otherwise, Orthos will simply error out and stop. Have you toyed with the southbridge voltages?

[Richard Dower]

So i got my new XFX 7900GS today, and she works!...thank god for that. I got one of the OC cards, 480MHz core and 1.4GHz memory...but as per usual, the price DROPPED €15 in the five days that i purchased it!!!!

So things seem OK for now, my dodgy Digital Doc 5+...replacing that with a new one.

[dnottis]

This is weird, my orthos keeps freezing at less than 10 minutes. I'm trying to get a stable 3.5GHz with vcore at 1.45v and MCH at +.3v. What could be the cause of the freeze? Does it look like I need more vcore? It has also frozen a few times while I was gaming.

Freezing is hard to troubleshoot. Could be anything from PSU to memory to heat - to just the chip not liking 3.5. I'd say drop the chip to 3.4 and see if it still freezes, work up from there.

[HamidFULL]

Freezing is hard to troubleshoot. Could be anything from PSU to memory to heat - to just the chip not liking 3.5. I'd say drop the chip to 3.4 and see if it still freezes, work up from there.

look @ my rig
yours is UDE3 or UDE7?
you can hit 620MHz or more easily

[[XC] riptide]

Man haven't checked in here a while Must read all those damn pages again. So p[eople are happy with the F10 for DS3 it seems.

[FunkyRider]

Sometimes we just shouldn't call a release BIOS a "beta" one. lol

[dnottis]

So does anyone here have a revision 2 of the DS3 and still have issues with the board losing it's overclock on a cold bootup?

[ziddey]

I've had it a few times, although it's not what really bugs me about the board. On my rev2, a lot of times, when I change my settings around, it'll put the board into a trance and not want to post for a good long time. I could even be doing something as simple as slacking timings from 4-4-4 to 5-5-5 (both of which are stable..) and it'd just die out for hours on me.

p5b-e and p5b vanilla differ by firewire but share same layout? I'm thinking of converting over.

[Drizzt81]

So does anyone here have a revision 2 of the DS3 and still have issues with the board losing it's overclock on a cold bootup?

At times I do.

[PanteraGSTK]

I've had it a few times, although it's not what really bugs me about the board. On my rev2, a lot of times, when I change my settings around, it'll put the board into a trance and not want to post for a good long time. I could even be doing something as simple as slacking timings from 4-4-4 to 5-5-5 (both of which are stable..) and it'd just die out for hours on me.

p5b-e and p5b vanilla differ by firewire but share same layout? I'm thinking of converting over.

keep in mind the memory voltage is max 2.1. Thats the only reason I got an S3. Now I'll be getting a QuadGT unless something better comes along.

[ziddey]

I'm hoping to be able to find a way to pencil shade a way to higher vdimm like is possible with ds3

[ziddey]

word on the street is that clubit is carrying 3.3 stock. at least for dq6. http://forums.anandtech.com/messagev...&enterthread=y is source of info it looks. fool me twice.....

[Richard Dower]

New review of the DQ6 Rev 2.0:

http://www.hardwarelogic.com/news/12...007-02-12.html

[Richard Dower]

Realtek HD codec for Vista, 1.59:

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&GetDown=false

[HamidFULL]

CPU-Z v1.39 :
http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpu-z-139.zip

[HamidFULL]

today I go to Gigabyte RMA Center in my land and I saw that all newer boards in store are Rev3.3

I know here gigabyte have poor technical office and easily change board if it cant boot

I have Gigabyte 965P-DS4 Rev1.0 and I want Destroy it (not physical) to replace it with Rev3.3

How I can to Destroy My Gigabyte 965P-DS4 Rev1.0 as that
it become turn-on but cant show boot screen (monitor stay off after turn-on)