Official Gigabyte X48/X48T-DQ6 bios+info thread

[Richard Dower]

My 256MB flash drives works perfect, seen as HDD3 in Q-Flash.

[Tharshan]

Has anybody removed the backplate on the mobo?

[Richard Dower]

No..but it's supposed to be easy, GB have guides on there website.

[Cur]

Has anybody removed the backplate on the mobo?

They tell you how to do it in the manual. Just don't lose the extra screws they sent along with the board to help hold the NB sink on.

[Supershanks]

Has anybody removed the backplate on the mobo?

- Yes

No..but it's supposed to be easy

- Yes
It's basically the same as the X38 Default Removing CrazyCool Heatsink

luck

[Richard Dower]

Another driver update for the onboard Realtek 8111B/C LAN chip, dated April 29th:

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

[knacki99]

New Problem fixing BIOSes would be a nice touch. This "beta" thingy is starting to annoy me. First video card drivers now mb BIOSes...

[De1337]

Good to know

Also no real problems with it either, so cant be all wrong.

and by the way..
The water cooling is thermaltake, came with the case. The backplate has some sticky pad under it, so it's stuck to the mobo, but we'd actually like to turn it ninety degrees (we didn't realise we could do this at the time:P), since it's making contact between two solderings on the backside of the board. We prevented contact by sticking some lil thin piece of plastic between the backplate and one of the solderings. But it's pretty much stuck, and we have no clue how to remove it without damaging the board.

Anyone?

Okay, so with a lot of blowdrying and prying with plastic tireirons, we finally got it off. The metal that was in contact with the soldering, got so warm that it actually meltet this soldering a bit, which worried me. The adhesive in between the board and the bracket was not very heat conductive, so it was only at the places where it touched the solderings we had some serious heat issues. But well, the board worked fine after, and we replaced it with a plastic zalman 775 backplate, which is much much better. For some reason, the NB heatsink is no longer burning either, this could be because we added an 80mm fan (standing loose on graphicscard)... but its just SO much cooler, so I doubt that was the only reason.

Anyway its all good now. So word of advice:

DO NOT take off the protective film between adhesive and motherboard when mounting thermaltake watercooling. There is no advantage of this... unless you consider a permanent huge metal backplate an advantage.

[Cur]

New Problem fixing BIOSes would be a nice touch. This "beta" thingy is starting to annoy me. First video card drivers now mb BIOSes...

What's wrong with the bios's that you've seen? I tried F7b and F7f and haven't seen any issues with either one. If the changes are transparent to the end user, I would think they are doing their jobs, no?

[homolin]

What are the default volt. in BIOS ? I search the net but nothing found.

[Moose2]

The only thing I found on Gigabyte board that give me a little help was this.
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.p...hreadid=266766

[Richard Dower]

Another new X48T-DQ6 review:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200...-motherboard/1

[I34z1k]

So what kinda fsb's are you guys hitting with this board? I've got one, just need some ram for it :P

[Supershanks]

What are the default volt. in BIOS ? I search the net but nothing found.

see
Motherboard Intelligent tweakr It's for the X48T DQ6 but applies to the X48 DQ6 equally.

In case you forget their also on the Bios template

luck

[homolin]

Thanks Supershanks

[Supershanks]

So what kinda fsb's are you guys hitting with this board? I've got one, just need some ram for it :P

4,125 7.5x550@3.33D = 1,833Mhz 8,7,6,20

Thanks Supershanks

no worries

[shawn1998]

Has anyone here seen the X48 DS4 yet?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128336

I currently am running the EX38 DS4 and just ordered this to test out. Just wondering...

Shawn

[Richard Dower]

Realtek 8111B/C LAN drivers, version 6.206 dated May 9th 2008:

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

[Richard Dower]

Does anyone have this mobo? - GA-X48-DS4 (rev. 1.3)

[dinos22]

Does anyone have this mobo? - GA-X48-DS4 (rev. 1.3)

i'm pretty sure mine is X48T-DQ6 rev1.3

[Richard Dower]

1.3 DQ6??...thought they were all Revision 1.1?, throw up a piccie if you can.

[dinos22]

1.3 DQ6??...thought they were all Revision 1.1?, throw up a piccie if you can.

yup will confirm tonight

[dinos22]

yup
my board is rev1.03

[shawn1998]

My X48 DS4 will be here Wed, although I haven't any idea when I will have the time to install it (new home owner...).

[Richard Dower]

Take a quick peek at the PCB Shawn and report if it's Revision 1.3 or not.