Official GIGA P35-S3/DS3/DS3R/DS3P/DS4/DQ6 bios/info thread

**Cob** · 08-19-2007, 05:02 PM

Measure the diameter of the hole. If it's 2mm it'll need M2 bolts, 2.5mm it'll need M2.5 bolts, 3mm it'll need M3 bolts, 4mm it'll need M4 bolts etc etc.

**NJDevilsFan21** · 08-19-2007, 06:20 PM

Anyone know if Home Depot or Lowes sells 2mm nuts and washers? I went there yesterday but the smallest I could find in the nuts & bolts section in either store was 4mm. Hopefully I can get the plate cut tomorrow though.

**Trikoid** · 08-19-2007, 07:35 PM

> Cob -- Measure the diameter of the hole. If it's 2mm it'll need M2 bolts, 2.5mm it'll need M2.5 bolts, 3mm it'll need M3 bolts, 4mm it'll need M4 bolts etc etc.

The diameter of the opening of the _threaded_ hole is smaller than 2mm (a screw's diameter is the solid part of the shaft, plus the threads thickness; thus it is the overall diameter of a screw). As an engineer who deals with small screws all the time, I estimated that that diameter of the screwes that would fit the holes (holes are around 1.25-1.5mm??) would be 2mm. If NJDevilsFan21 can take one of the NB screws and measure the diameter with some calipers, then we will all know for sure.

> NJDevilsFan21 -- Anyone know if Home Depot or Lowes sells 2mm nuts and washers? I went there yesterday but the smallest I could find in the nuts & bolts section in either store was 4mm. Hopefully I can get the plate cut tomorrow though.
Nah, you're talking about almost watchmaker parts. Try mcmaster.com. They are mega huge, and have everything in stock. Their catalog is like 2500 pages long, and they stock it ALL, from small teany parts to 2" diameter bolts.

> NJDevilsFan21 -- I thought about just separating the entire NB chunk away from the main CPU part, that way I could still get some Crazy Cool under the NB.

That's a brilliant idea. Make the NB chunk of the crazy cool a single chunk/double-holed nut. Don't mess with anything else. You have figured out the perfect solution.

**Teccxpert** · 08-20-2007, 12:49 AM

Highest FSB for my ES E6850 & DQ6 board which has no mods Orthos stable Blend priority 5

**K404** · 08-20-2007, 12:53 AM

Originally Posted by Teccxpert

Highest FSB for my ES E6850 & DQ6 board which has no mods Orthos stable Blend priority 5

488 seems a bit low :S

at least its stable!

Edge up the voltages a bit and at least try to break 500

**Teccxpert** · 08-20-2007, 01:08 AM

Originally Posted by K404

488 seems a bit low :S

at least its stable!

Edge up the voltages a bit and at least try to break 500

Its already on Max volts for NB. At least I can use it more effectively with F5L bios, before with F4 bios it was a real pain to change Ram timings like it would boot with 5-6-6 on my Corsair Dominator sticks...

All this is on x86 Vista which is on Hardware Raid. If I go any higher Vista wants to shut down Orthos almost immediately.

**Richard Dower** · 08-20-2007, 01:09 AM

Brand new Realtek 8111B LAN drivers, August 20th 2007:

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

**Richard Dower** · 08-20-2007, 01:09 AM

Have you guys tried F5m beta for the DQ6?

**Teccxpert** · 08-20-2007, 01:16 AM

Originally Posted by Richard Dower

Have you guys tried F5m beta for the DQ6?

Is it on the Global quarters site? a lot of those Gigabyte sites take ages to load...

**BikerKS** · 08-20-2007, 07:56 AM

Great stuff for a few bucks

**NJDevilsFan21** · 08-20-2007, 09:48 AM

I also have a few general questions about the DQ6.

What does Option 1 & Option 2 for the memory do in the BIOS? Manual says like absolutely nothing about them. And will running the memory enhancing setting effect stability? By default mine was set to turbo, so I changed it to standard.

Now to go get this back plate cut

**Flip_Lx** · 08-20-2007, 10:16 AM

figuered this is as a good a thread as any to ask. Anyone have experiance with the P35-S3L mobo? i've got that running right now (tight budget build) and was wondering if anyone has gained anything from the recently released F3 and/or Beat F4 bios for it

for those not knowing what it is, its just eh p35-s3 minus raid and what not, there is also a ds3l with the ss caps but not raid

**darrenj** · 08-20-2007, 10:52 AM

well seeing that I am not able to get help here I will just go back to my P5B board and sell this piece of crap!!

**mackintire** · 08-20-2007, 11:37 AM

Well.... I installed my new GA-P35-DQ6.

Its not going well.

I mucked with the thing for near 10 hours. Tried 3 different bios(s)

4 different pairs of memory.

The best I have been able to achive is a quasi stable machine using Mushkin Xp2-8500 at lower than stock timings.

Infact I can not even get the computer to pass a single pass of memtest test 5 at any DDR voltage higher than +1.5

Its a Rev 1.0 board.

I also read almost every post in the thread looking for something that would fix this.

I think I got a bum board.

I other news my Noctura heatsink cooled my QX6700 down to 48 C. Thats 8C cooler than my old Ninja.

**zsamz_** · 08-20-2007, 04:54 PM

Originally Posted by K404

488 seems a bit low :S

at least its stable!

Edge up the voltages a bit and at least try to break 500

yes higher you go slower it gets anything over 540 not worth it imho

**zsamz_** · 08-20-2007, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by darrenj

well seeing that I am not able to get help here I will just go back to my P5B board and sell this piece of crap!!

you gotta wait till u get 100 posts lol

**172x** · 08-20-2007, 06:42 PM

I would like to flash my P35-DS4 motherboard BIOS F4 to F5G but would like to know first whether it will affect my OS especially my Windows is sit in RAID volume before I proceed.
I am new in this area, hope expert may help to answer my question. Will I lost my data? Is my windows still remain accessible after flash the new bios? Do I need to reinstall my Window or rebuilt my RAID array after motherboard bios update?

Thanks

**road-runner** · 08-20-2007, 06:54 PM

Originally Posted by 172x

I would like to flash my P35-DS4 motherboard BIOS F4 to F5G but would like to know first whether it will affect my OS especially my Windows is sit in RAID volume before I proceed.
I am new in this area, hope expert may help to answer my question. Will I lost my data? Is my windows still remain accessible after flash the new bios? Do I need to reinstall my Window or rebuilt my RAID array after motherboard bios update?

Thanks

I am running raid 0 and the rig in my sig and the only thing I had to do after flashing was go back into the bios and reset all my settings then everything was fine, otherwise it will not detect the drives because raid is not enabled in the bios after flashing everything returns to default bios settings

**172x** · 08-20-2007, 07:22 PM

Originally Posted by road-runner

I am running raid 0 and the rig in my sig and the only thing I had to do after flashing was go back into the bios and reset all my settings then everything was fine, otherwise it will not detect the drives because raid is not enabled in the bios after flashing everything returns to default bios settings

After bios flashing just goto BIOS setup set SATA RAID/AHCI Mode to RAID, it will able to auto detect my existing RAID array, right?

Do I still need to enter the RAID BIOS setup utility to configure a RAID array by pressing CTRL+I?

For your information, I'm running Intel Matrix RAID 1 & 0 at two Seagate HDD.

Thanks

**xphaze** · 08-21-2007, 05:11 AM

Originally Posted by mackintire

Well.... I installed my new GA-P35-DQ6.

Its not going well.

I mucked with the thing for near 10 hours. Tried 3 different bios(s)

4 different pairs of memory.

The best I have been able to achive is a quasi stable machine using Mushkin Xp2-8500 at lower than stock timings.

Infact I can not even get the computer to pass a single pass of memtest test 5 at any DDR voltage higher than +1.5

Its a Rev 1.0 board.

I also read almost every post in the thread looking for something that would fix this.

I think I got a bum board.

I other news my Noctura heatsink cooled my QX6700 down to 48 C. Thats 8C cooler than my old Ninja.

Hi there!

Sounds to me that you have the exact same problem as I do. Try running one stick and see if memtest passes 3-4 hours. It worked for me.

I will wait until i get some other ram sticks to try with, otherwise i'll rma this board since it just don't wants to be stable in dual channel mode.

**Trikoid** · 08-21-2007, 05:18 AM

172x: Don't worry about your data. The RAID setup, I believe, is stored on the drives themselves, not the BIOS or in flash. It's nice, so if you take your drives out and put them into another ICH9R system (and it has RAID enabled in the BIOS), it will automatically recognize the RAID setup.

The manual says that after loading in a new BIOS that you should load default settings. Probably a good idea, but I didn't do that. Nothing bad happened that I saw.

FYI, I setup a RAID 10 & RAID 5 setup on my four 250GB drives. I've flashed the BIOS 4 times or so with NO problems.

**mackintire** · 08-21-2007, 05:41 AM

Yep, running in single channel mode. It is stable.

I ordered 3 GA-P35-DS3P for overnight delivery.

Alsmost the same board without the fancy heatpipe and 6 phase power instead of 12.

Michael

**NJDevilsFan21** · 08-21-2007, 07:56 AM

What vFSB and vMCH were stable for people who run 400FSB? Trying to find a nice setting for 400x9 on a Q6600.

**zsamz_** · 08-21-2007, 09:43 AM

no more than +1

**Mysterfix** · 08-21-2007, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by NJDevilsFan21

What vFSB and vMCH were stable for people who run 400FSB? Trying to find a nice setting for 400x9 on a Q6600.

I run mine @ default at 463fsb x8 no problem.

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