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

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Well Bios f9 seems to have first caused ram errors then killed two sticks of ballistix Lanfest ram, and somehow it has either confused windows into not finding my ethernet or killed it aswell. I went back to F7 and all is well except for two dead sticks of ram and a dead ethernet. The lan has power and the modem has a solid green connection but it just won't work . I tried a new cable because the bios has a cable test for the ethernet / lan and it's not responding at all. WTF. This is my last Gigabyte. I may RMA this board and when it returns sell it. It is a full featured board that overclocks like hell but man all these problems. I even tried to reflashing the bios, upgrading the chipset drivers, then reactivate the ethernet adapter ,without any difference. Then I tried reinstalling a fresh copy of Windows on my second hardrive, unplugged the first hardrive, reset the bios and boot with the fresh copy of windows,still no ethernet found. I'm using a USB connection now and ordered a 7 dollar ethernet adapter. Still this is B.S because Gigabyte has no advanced rma so if I return it I will be without a computer for 3 weeks. Anyone have any Ideas about this lan problem.



Also don't use F9 bios I was using default voltage when my ram died with it. Memtest showed errors out the azz and the board won't boot at all with the two sticks which are now DOA. Windows memtest also shows error with F9 I know you guys think the memtest error are false positives as I did so i continued to used it and two perfectly fine ram sticked died and my Ethernet is either dead or my bios is so confused it won't find it. This all happened using F9 and in a very short time. I don't believe these memory errors are false positive I think this bios killed my ram.