Official GIGABYTE X38-DQ6/X38T-DQ6 Info/BIOS Thread

[dinos22]

something wrong with the bios
after 10+ hours of bios flashin i gave up
u guys better try updating bios to see if it will take it properly

so we can fark up ours no thanks

which bios did you try??

[zsamz_]

so we can fark up ours no thanks

which bios did you try??

only 1 new bios is out the f4
update your bios lol see if it works

[dinos22]

paul at i4memory is running the new bios fine so could be your board

don't these boards have like 50 million bioses or something which would allow you to recover

[ante_ante]

I recieved my board 2 days ago. Manage to install Xp ans Vista without any trouble. After the install i decided to update bios. Now the board wont boot anymore. RMA on the way :/

[badboy]

I recieved my board 2 days ago. Manage to install Xp ans Vista without any trouble. After the install i decided to update bios. Now the board wont boot anymore. RMA on the way :/

That doesn't sound good at all.

[turtletrax]

I couldnt get my MCW-30 on the SB, and I didnt have a heatsink to replace the heatpipe assembly. I had RAMsinks for the mosfets but since I have nothing to cool the SB I had to just run the stock cooling on the NB/SB/Mosfets.

Also, by sticking with the stock heatpipe I couldn't remove the crazycool assembly on the rear of the board to use a backplate for my Fuzion. Will have to get a TR mosfet cooler and a decent chipset cooler for the SB so I can WC the NB.

Really looking forward to getting some time in with this board but way to busy to get around to it.

Will have to settle for later this week.

Here is a pic of my board

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...x/DSC_0022.jpg

[Charles Wirth]

My DS3 has a DQ6 bios on it. E1

[vanovich]

this board is a bit touchy with extreme team ram.took a few reboots before i got them to play ,and still a bit har to get high fsb with these pc 6400. managed to bench 4,2 with my 6850. kan boot 4,0 then tune software for the rest,still working out the biose here .

[GAR]

ok, just installed the board, flashed to the F4 bios and board is dead........WTF!?!?!?!?!

anyone know how to fix this??

[GAR]

ok, so i fixed the board, just take the battery out for 5 mins, and put it back in, board boot back up.............thank god!!

[zsamz_]

ok, so i fixed the board, just take the battery out for 5 mins, and put it back in, board boot back up.............thank god!!

were you able to put the f4 bios in after all?

[OBR]

My own review of GA-X38-DQ6 ... (in Czech language) but graph dont need a translation ...


http://www.pctuning.cz/index.php?opt...9486&Itemid=43

[GAR]

were you able to put the f4 bios in after all?

Yeahm im using the F4 bios now............that was some freaky S*it

[vanovich]

heres where i am so far http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=249061

board wont boot at these settings when ram is not set to spd.im just about orthos stable at 4,4 . but i cant bench 3dmarks at this speed ,which i find a bit wierd , any memset for this board?

[dinos22]

so i changed over to X38-DQ6 from DS3P on my Single Stage setup and thought i might as well flash to latest bios
so from F3 to F4

my conclusion is DO NOT USE F4 bios if you have this board!!!!!!!!!!!!

F4 is ****ed i could not go past 445Mhz FSB no matter what and even that wasn't too crash hot stability wise >> i've spent a good 2.5 hours trying to figure it all out and since i have a fair bit of experience from the last few months of testing with Gigabyte boards i was a bit surprised that i could not figure out WTF was going on

after trying to figure it all out i decided to flash back to F3 bios

and now all is fine



DO NOT FLASH TO F4!!!

it's a shame because F4 has some excellent voltage and RAM strap change options

[GAR]

F4 working fine for so far, also im not pushing too high of an fsb, 389x9 = 3.5ghz..........thats preety much all i need.....im sure a new bios should be out very soon.

[vanovich]

nice dino , nice fsb . are you booting with those settings?
any memset for this board?

[paulxmn]

paul at i4memory is running the new bios fine so could be your board

don't these boards have like 50 million bioses or something which would allow you to recover

they should but I had to clear CMOS once so far.

First flash to F4 required a CMOS clear. Rolled back to F3 and back to F4 again.

Using the following Bios Settings (Bios F4) GPU benches have increased 8 to 16% over P35 with same hardware.

Graphics Booster "Turbo"
PCI "105"
Performance Enhance "Turbo"
Memory Multi "266D" applies to Corsair PC8500 5.5.5.15 2T E6850 @450 to 455 FSB
PCIEX "1000"
PCI-E Overvoltage "1.5 to 2.00" as applied to Ultra 8800

latest release of CPUZ 1.41 reports memory Mhz above 4000 Mhz X38 Chipset.

No MemSet for this chipset. Everest will release update for X38 this week.

[zsamz_]

i was asked by tech to take out batterie before i rma
so i'll do it when i can lol

[zoob]

My own review of GA-X38-DQ6 ... (in Czech language) but graph dont need a translation ...


http://www.pctuning.cz/index.php?opt...9486&Itemid=43

Wow HUGE gain on CoH 16+16 Crossfire test

[Yakyb]

whats all that about you have to call question against that 85% drivers probably

[dinos22]

i was asked by tech to take out batterie before i rma
so i'll do it when i can lol

mine kinda didn't boot after flashing to F4 so i took the battery out quick and also shorted the cmos as the SS was still running freezing the crap out of the board LOL hhahaha

and it booted just fine

[dinos22]

nice dino , nice fsb . are you booting with those settings?
any memset for this board?

yeah i was booting at these and higher ~4.9GHz

no memset yet

[vanovich]

For people having team extreme pc2 6400 3 3 3 8 ram .think twice before ordering this board ,as these ram kan only boot in spd ,hopefully i biose will fix it , i thought my board was bugged ,until i got hold off another ram (adata)
now i can set the timmings manual ,which i couldnt before.

[vanovich]

For people having team extreme pc2 6400 3 3 3 8 ram .think twice before ordering this board ,as these ram kan only boot in spd ,hopefully i biose will fix it , i thought my board was bugged ,until i got hold off another ram (adata)
now i can set the timmings manual ,which i couldnt before.

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