QuadGT Arrived (56k warning)

[clon22]

Lets count with the past two months only for me,

Evga 680i TR
Evga 680i A1
Quadgt #1
QuadGT #2
Asus Commando
DFI Rd600
P5B DLx #1
P5B DLX #2
Badaxe 2
Abit AW9D Max
Asus P5WDG2 WS PRO
Aopen I975XA-YDG

What about you?

Yes, after hours and hours, I did manage to get it to boot a CD and I had to install windows on the JMICRON to flash to the B07, but THE BOARD IS TRASH ANYWAY

Dun worry man,
This is a known issue on my side...
I have made know to my local distributer...
But they juz turn me away saying all my hardware is faulty..
N I've tried 3 boards in my shop for 3 different customers..
All failed to install windows...
Only after resetting cmos 10 over times,
did i managed to get it in...
And the moment i adjusted the bios settings, windows gets corrupted...
Lucky i found u guys in this thread,
Flashed the B02 bios, and now everything is running smoothly...
Any my customers r all happy too...
ITs still a great board, i feel....
I'm on B06 now...

[fhpchris]

had a few boards too in the past 3-4 months and i have to say that this one is one of my fav ones , im not using RAID or SATA burners "maybe thats why" but it take me high FSB i run this thing @3.6 24/7(bios B6R) sooo stable
i also had the 680I (but first rev) and i can tell u that this one beat that $hit out of it
ive been looking to buy another HD to try RAID , maybe i can talk $hit about it after the RAID
Sorry fhpchris for all the troubles QUADgt is giving you
BTW whos running RAID 0 or ! here on the super duper QUADGT? with B6R?

400 fsb isnt high, my AW9D could even do that

680i is decently fast @ 600 mhz ram @ 5-3-3 or 4-3-3

The Quad GT does not do 600 mhz ram

[LittleLaLa]

how did you get those heatsink on the PWM? There are little curcuit thingies that are actually higher than the pwm chips. Thermal epoxy doesn't work cause it came off pretty easily on mine. Also how are its temps? Can you show a screen shot of uguru? Thanks.

They are 4 pcs thermaltake copper heatsink epoxyed together
I'm planning to remove them out and thinking some alternatives because it does not work very well. PWM Idle 6x deg.C (6600@3.6G)
10Xdeg. C full load

[RLM]

FHPCHris,

The bios you haven't tried B06R is the one I think that you should of tried.

No multi or speed stepping issues with this one and quad cores.

I'm new to Raid, but have got Raid-0 running, no problems.

The PWM temps have been fine for me. On the 6600 they were around 40-50, on the Quadcore they go up to about 60 on full load. I have a small fan screwed into the top of the heatsink.

The board compared to my commando is marginally faster as well.

I've tried over the last few months

AW9D-Max
P5B-Deluxe
PW5DH
Commando
and the QUAD GT.

So far this is my favorite board.

The EVGA 680i (Second revision) has got my interest though, just a pity they don't seem to sell them here in Thailand.

As we all know when buying a motherboard, it's a bit like buying a cpu, some perform better than others, even if they are the same model.

Just my experiences so far, albeit not xtreme ones. Playing it safe with this QX6700 at the mo.

RLM

[dave24]

you talk a load of b*ll*cks,just cause you have had a bad experience with the board ,doesn`t make it trash.

This board is TRASH.

STAY AWAY FROM THIS BOARD PLEASE!

I just got my second one from RMA, and I have spent over 4 hours trying to get an os on it alone....

AWDFLASH hangs
bios 1.0 blows hard
will not boot from a CD with certain options in bios.

DO NOT BUY THIS BOARD, ABIT = TRASH.

[Vagouridis]

I've just bought the board and i am having a stupid problem.I can save all my settings to bios except those to uGuru. Every time i make a change to UGuru at the next boot the board shows the message : Cpu has changed please go to cmos and re enter cpu settings. Press F1 to continue or Del to enter Bios. So the problem is after flashing all bios either from flash menu either from dos the board can not save my setting to the Uguru.

[dave24]

what OS and what version Uguru are you using

I've just bought the board and i am having a stupid problem.I can save all my settings to bios except those to uGuru. Every time i make a change to UGuru at the next boot the board shows the message : Cpu has changed please go to cmos and re enter cpu settings. Press F1 to continue or Del to enter Bios. So the problem is after flashing all bios either from flash menu either from dos the board can not save my setting to the Uguru.

[Vagouridis]

what OS and what version Uguru are you using

It is not a problem of the OS. All my changes i make them in the bios. It seems that the bios can save all the settings in all menu except those in the menu for oc.

[dave24]

Ok,i will leave you to it

It is not a problem of the OS. All my changes i make them i the bios. It seems that the bios can save all the settings in all menu except those in the menu for oc.

[ted3]

So what about RAID, still problems with newest bios?

Im trying to decide between QuadGT and Infinity P965. Have to wait and see what kind of issues will surface when Infinity P965 gets widespread, with QuadGT i could get one right away after easter.

[426hemi]

can someone give me a little help with the voltages? I don't know what is safe on the new p965 boards. Here is my current voltages orthos stable 8hrs and all afternoon gaming.

[Getttosmurf]

Havent had more then 4 c2d boards the past 4 months but this one is easily the best one im almost in love with it... after having 3 pos asus boards it doesnt take much perhaps but still im amazed how easy it was to set up.

Ich8r is ide controller ? dont remember if so then it worked fine out of box for me. HAvent tried ride yet though.

Havent noticed any worse vdroop then my previous boards , havent really checked that much.

Pwm get a little warm though but a silent 120mm fan took care of that = )

Eist working aswell both on and turning it of.

havent had time to try oc as much as i wished but 3.6 took 5minutes 3.8 needed alittle more v. My ram flies compared to p5b that doesnt have a working 4/5 divider now stable at 525Mhz 4 4 4 10 would like subtimings in bios though.



//smurf

1) does the ICH8R+JM363 work out of the box? No
2) does the board have upward multis working on Quadcore? (4 cores)No
3) does this board work with SATA burners? not really
4) does this board vdroop horribly? YES
5) does the digital PWM hinder overclocking? YES, even without quadcore
6) do people still get stuck with EIST not working and stuck at a multi of 6x? YES

All of those are clearly abit problems, only the digital PWM and vdroop are not BIOS problems.

[Ajfina]

400 fsb isnt high, my AW9D could even do that

680i is decently fast @ 600 mhz ram @ 5-3-3 or 4-3-3

The Quad GT does not do 600 mhz ram

I agree with u on the memory dept (and we all know that 680I is one of the best for Ocing memory), and when i said 400 fsb i didnt mean thats the highest i can do on my quadgt i can do 525(some programs benchable) fsb and 530 but not stable
the max ive done with the memory is 552 or so ,

[MADMAX22]

i agree with you Ajfina, i can post and do some stuff as high as 525 and cant seem to get the ram any hihgher then about 550 or so no matter what memory i use in it

as far as the other problems im not running raid so i cant comment on that but other then that install of windows and everything else was a piece of cake

[Ace-a-Rue]

BTW whos running RAID 0 or ! here on the super duper QUADGT? with B6R?

i am NOW!

i had to go from B6R to B08 to finish the 32 bit install of Vista Ultimate....the install worked up to a point with B6R..once i finished the flash it would complete the install...i am running Raid 0, 128K Stripe...

next try will be the 64 bit version.

EDIT:...i have a NEC IDE DVD writer on the Jmicron controller..no sata optical.

[Ace-a-Rue]

can someone give me a little help with the voltages? I don't know what is safe on the new p965 boards. Here is my current voltages orthos stable 8hrs and all afternoon gaming.

you look very good with the voltages...430 fsb with 1.36 vcore is good...mch not to high, vmem in a good range and cpu vtt looks sound.

[blossa]

It is not a problem of the OS. All my changes i make them in the bios. It seems that the bios can save all the settings in all menu except those in the menu for oc.

I feel like I have the same problem somtimes. I feel that it works better if only change one thing at the time, then reboot and then change the next etc.

[426hemi]

you look very good with the voltages...430 fsb with 1.36 vcore is good...mch not to high, vmem in a good range and cpu vtt looks sound.

Thanks for the reply

[VIctorj]

Guys...a little help here.

I went from P5WDH DLX to Abit QuadGT....
Everything was running smooth on p5w...but on abit, on stock settings im having laggy keyboard, and artifacting on my x1900.

Am i missing something here?

Fresh install of XP
Latest drivers for X1900
Stock CD drivers from abit CD (have to try latest drivers from website)

RIG:
E6400
2x1gb Micron D9GHM
FSP 600w
Sapphire X1900XT

Everything running at stock.

THanx a lot guys...im really pissed off.

[Ruslan]

Guys...a little help here.

I went from P5WDH DLX to Abit QuadGT....
Everything was running smooth on p5w...but on abit, on stock settings im having laggy keyboard, and artifacting on my x1900.

Am i missing something here?

Fresh install of XP
Latest drivers for X1900
Stock CD drivers from abit CD (have to try latest drivers from website)

RIG:
E6400
2x1gb Micron D9GHM
FSP 600w
Sapphire X1900XT

Everything running at stock.

THanx a lot guys...im really pissed off.

You need to flash to the beta bios. Beta 8 works fine. I heard good things about beta 6R too. Try the 8 it's the latest.

[VIctorj]

You need to flash to the beta bios. Beta 8 works fine. I heard good things about beta 6R too. Try the 8 it's the latest.

Mind droping me a PM with a download link? Im having a hard time finding it :S
I think im out there...this bugs are freaking me out.

[Ruslan]

Mind droping me a PM with a download link? Im having a hard time finding it :S
I think im out there...this bugs are freaking me out.

QuadGT11.zip

1. Burn ISO to a blank CD.
2. Boot from the CD and select the Start Computer With CD-Rom support option.
3. Navigate to your CD-Rom (X where X is the letter.
4. Execute B08.BAT to flash with B08 Bios OR 11FINAL.BAT to flash with 11 Final Bios[Note 1]
5. After it is flashed turn off the power and reset the CMOS (The swithch it the back)


I found the M621E_11.BIN along with the M621E_11.B08 in the same archive. The M621E_11.BIN has the date Yesterday, April 04, 2007, 8:22:08 AM.
This could be the 11 final but it was not announced yet. the CRC32 of this file is: DCA0C809.

[korby]

Hmmm, I have the B6R BIOS and I also get some artifacts on my 7900GT, just after I bought AB9 QuadGT.

[jugeen]

Have you tried it?

QuadGT11.zip

1. Burn ISO to a blank CD.
2. Boot from the CD and select the Start Computer With CD-Rom support option.
3. Navigate to your CD-Rom (X where X is the letter.
4. Execute B08.BAT to flash with B08 Bios OR 11FINAL.BAT to flash with 11 Final Bios[Note 1]
5. After it is flashed turn off the power and reset the CMOS (The swithch it the back)


I found the M621E_11.BIN along with the M621E_11.B08 in the same archive. The M621E_11.BIN has the date Yesterday, April 04, 2007, 8:22:08 AM.
This could be the 11 final but it was not announced yet. the CRC32 of this file is: DCA0C809.

[Ruslan]

Have you tried it?

I'm using the B08 right now and I will flash with 11Final? as soon as i get home. B08 works fine.
I packaged the ISO with both bioses for convenience. B08 works 100% so you can flash away. The 11Final is not tested by me yet. If there is anyone who can't wait 5 hours for me to report my findings please flash away. (Only for the Truly Xtreme)