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

[tripleflip18]

Hello guys. I own DS3 1.0. Anyway i just bought another seagate 750 gig and up and running raid 0 after about 20 hours of having a hard time to get windows installed. If i used the drivers that are provided on gigabites site - at the end of vista 32 installation i'd get blue screen and would never be able to ever vista for the first time. So then i found someone having same probler and used something like 1.16 drivers. which got me into windows, boy was i happy after all those hours to finally install it. Anyhow now that im up and running i get a BSOD sometimes 1-2 times/day and other times i don't get it for days. Everytime it happens it reboots obviously and then when it boots im just stuck at that Raid (press Ctrl+G) to enter config screen. The only way to get around it is to reboot and enter bios and exit.. then it will let me continue and load windows. But again its a pain in a.. to get that BSOD few times/day or days. So i was thinking to updating raid0 with newest drivers for gigabites site. Am i allowed to do it within windows? because one time i did it, installation froze and it messed up my whole windows installation. So is it doable within windows? any of you not recommend using those drivers or can you tell me about better ones? Or are there any tweaks in bios i can do to improve Raid0 stability. I will greatly appriciate your help because its really driving me crazy. Thank you

[Hutch]

tripleflip18, you may want to lower your FSB or increase your vmch and vfsb to stop the BSOD's from happening.

[redrol]

Anyone hit 9 x 400 with an E6600 on air yet with the new bios on bootup? Stable?

6x466 for me works great with a 6600

[tripleflip18]

tripleflip18, you may want to lower your FSB or increase your vmch and vfsb to stop the BSOD's from happening.

I actually run 376x8 24/7 and did try raising. but still getting blue screen, i think its to do with raid like i said earlier. i only run 426x8 when i need performace for fsx or games that require the speed.

[Hutch]

What's your PSU? Any idea what it says when it BSOD's?

btw how the hell did you OC your hd's lol?

[Richard Dower]

As reported, DS4 beta bios F9b:

http://www.station-drivers.com/telec...965pds4f9b.exe

[Richard Dower]

Hello guys. I own DS3 1.0. Anyway i just bought another seagate 750 gig and up and running raid 0 after about 20 hours of having a hard time to get windows installed. If i used the drivers that are provided on gigabites site - at the end of vista 32 installation i'd get blue screen and would never be able to ever vista for the first time. So then i found someone having same probler and used something like 1.16 drivers. which got me into windows, boy was i happy after all those hours to finally install it. Anyhow now that im up and running i get a BSOD sometimes 1-2 times/day and other times i don't get it for days. Everytime it happens it reboots obviously and then when it boots im just stuck at that Raid (press Ctrl+G) to enter config screen. The only way to get around it is to reboot and enter bios and exit.. then it will let me continue and load windows. But again its a pain in a.. to get that BSOD few times/day or days. So i was thinking to updating raid0 with newest drivers for gigabites site. Am i allowed to do it within windows? because one time i did it, installation froze and it messed up my whole windows installation. So is it doable within windows? any of you not recommend using those drivers or can you tell me about better ones? Or are there any tweaks in bios i can do to improve Raid0 stability. I will greatly appriciate your help because its really driving me crazy. Thank you

How do you overclock hard drives?...it's not possible!

[laziepig]

Been running DS4 F9b since yesterday... Seem stable, will try to push higher fsb tonight. Anyone try it yet?

[MonsterMan]

Been running DS4 F9b since yesterday... Seem stable, will try to push higher fsb tonight. Anyone try it yet?

I want to try it, but im not sure if its any good. Did you see any new features inside bios settings?? Any issues with it??

[laziepig]

I want to try it, but im not sure if its any good. Did you see any new features inside bios settings?? Any issues with it??

Don't see any new features... look stable to me, I'll try if the cold boot issue come back... btw anyone can translate this: 1. Overclocking wurde verbessert - Bitte vorläufig nur zum testen ?

[MonsterMan]

Don't see any new features... look stable to me, I'll try if the cold boot issue come back... btw anyone can translate this: 1. Overclocking wurde verbessert - Bitte vorläufig nur zum testen ?

Ok thx.

The translation is something like this:
Overclocking was improved - request provisionally only to to test

[Hutch]

If they wanna improve overclocking, they need to make additional FSB and MCH voltages availible. Atleast up to +.5V on both... Higher vFSB = higher ram clocks, higher vMCH = higher FSB clocks...

[Hutch]

I'll be testing in an hour or so and will report my results... Also Need some D9's... Powerchip IC's = the worst. Somehow I've been able to hit 500mhz fairly stable with 1x512mb in 4:5...

[tripleflip18]

Im so happy i got few people with my hard drive overclock. Read last line of my signature

I forget the name of my psu, but its like almost best one for 260$

am i allowed to update Raid drivers within windows or not guys? yesterday, blue screen like 4-5 times, today 0

[Richard Dower]

Here is a new beta for the S3:

http://www.station-drivers.com/telec...65p-s3_f9b.exe

F9b, reading a posting on Station-drivers suggests a new beta for the DQ6 (F10b) is coming soon, also F5e beta for the DS3P.

[laziepig]

Im so happy i got few people with my hard drive overclock. Read last line of my signature

I forget the name of my psu, but its like almost best one for 260$

am i allowed to update Raid drivers within windows or not guys? yesterday, blue screen like 4-5 times, today 0

Probably voltage failure on the oc? why not give it a try since you're getting bsod. Update us with the results.

[tripleflip18]

Im sorry but what is voltage failure on the oc?

PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 EPS12V 750W is my power supply. Yesterday didn't have any BSOD, today within 15 min i had 3 or so. This is driving me crazy, i never ever had any with XP

[jacky89]

Does anybody know if disabling AHCI will speed up the harddrive since disabling AHCI = disabling NCQ? Everywhere I've read, people gain significant performance boost by disabling NCQ. Has anyone had any luck disabling AHCI?

[Richard Dower]

If anyone is interested: new firmware for the Plextor 716A/SA available:

http://www.plextor.com/english/suppo...s/firm_716.htm

[riv]

Can I re-post my little problem?
I've a Gigabyte P965-DQ6 bios F9 with an E6600 clocked @3600, 9x400.
When i power on my system (maybe you can see in my sign) everything startup without problem, but in Windows (Vista or Xp is the same thing) I see only a core is detected.
After a very normal reboot of Windows also the second core is detected.
I write the situation to Gigabyte Support, but they suggested that maybe could be a cpu problem. Due to fact, I don't think so.
Vcore is set to 1.4500 in bios, and more does not help...maybe more stability in case of hour and hour of orthos...
I'm quite sure that another mobo, or a corrected DQ6 bios, doesn't present my problem.
Any ideas or suggestion?
Anyone agreed with me?
Thanks and sorry if I'm became boring

[ziddey]

does it happen at stock or a milder overclock? if not, it could be cpu is funny

[riv]

does it happen at stock or a milder overclock? if not, it could be cpu is funny

absolutly no at stock, nor at 8x400(3200)...but today when I powered on the pc, during Intel Raid bios screen I have pressed reset button and Windows has detect both core at first shoot!
i think i've to write to Gigabyte Support again and hope to be not the only one...maybe they could be correct something in future bios releases...

[ziddey]

what if you fiddle with settings like c1e or virtualization. shouldn't have an impact but you never know i guess.. what are you running for vfsb and vmch? tried bumping those?

[riv]

what if you fiddle with settings like c1e or virtualization. shouldn't have an impact but you never know i guess.. what are you running for vfsb and vmch? tried bumping those?

I prefer to keep enable cpu's feature settings...specially c1e helps power saving
- at the moment i've set:

ddr2 +0,50
pci-e +0,10
mch +0,25
fsb +0,15
cpu 1,450

- ram timings are set manually, but using spd values(got from bios) for 800mhz.
- pci-express is set to 100mhz.

[tripleflip18]

Hey guys, I updated RAID Drivers with the latest from gig website and have not had a BSOD for 2 days!!! Im super excited about this as it seems vista runs perfect. I even got my printer setup cause drivers just came out!!! I almost love it. I have SB ZS audigy 2 and had to take it out because with the beta drivers i get BSOD. So im running onboard sound. Too me sounds the same, im just loosing a bit of CPU power.

Happy overclocking everyone, im almost 100% happy now