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

[panzer948]

Hi. I just built my machine in time for the holidays and after a couple of issues, I got her up and running fine using Windows Vista 64. No OC'ing yet, but that will be for next weekend

So far, all the programs I have installed are compatible. I did have a problem with the windows bios flash program. It went into that continous start post shutdown loop. But after clearing CMOS 3 times, that issue went away, sheew. Think I will use Q-flash next time and for now i will stick with F6B.

I do still have one or two problems. I installed XP first before vista to setup what I hoped was a dual boot system. Never could get the audio to work in XP, not sure if I did the audio drivers right and maybe I let windows driver dialog take over when I shouldn't (saw the warning on pg. 98 of the MB manual a little to late). It does work in vista though.

So after installing vista using the correct options for keeping my XP OS, I updated it, installed a few programs, but when I went back and picked the XP OS harddrive to boot 1st vs the Vista OS HDD (have the OSs on separate HDDs) i got a bootmgr error. So it want boot to XP now. Haven't tried booting from the XP startup disk yet, which might fix the error. Just not sure why this didn't go as smooth as it should have. I did change volume names of the HDDs in vista, so not sure if that matters. Also, if i do get XP running again, is there away to setup a dual boot without having to go into Bios and changing the HDD boot order?

Thanks!

GIGABYTE GA-X38-DQ6 MB
Q6600 Processor - GO
8GB of G.SKILL 4GB(2 x 2GB) DDR2 1000 (PC2 8000)
EVGA GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB
2x WD Caviar RE2 500GB 7200 RPM SATA in Raid 0
2x WD Raptor 36GB (non-raid) OS harddrives
1 external WD USB 300GB & old 160GB IDE HDD
CORSAIR ATX12V V2.2 550W PSU
ZALMAN 9700 CPU Cooler
Vista x64 and XP 32bit OS