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

[Buggalugs]

Janus will give you one.

[steve30x]

I emailed him earlier and hope he replies. The Gigabyte support are just being idiots about it and asking me stupid questions.

[Richard Dower]

I flashed to F9c which is dated May 25th 2008...the layout of the bios has changed. M.I.T. is now the very first item in the menu (like what will happen with P45 based bios), inside the layout has changed slightly, i don't think any new options were added...just various voltage settings are grouped together different. The "CPU Fine Clock" option is totally greyed out now and cannot be changed.

I had major issues overclocking and O/C settings being accepted, even now while i'm in Windows i have two serious issues, the Performance Level is set to 8 according to Everest (latest build) even though 6 is set in bios (on Auto), and my CPU multi is locked at 6x when in bios i have i set to the standard 8x....so basically this is a botched bios.

[edit] know what, the problem could very well be with Everest 4.50.1383, because when i stress the CPU with Prime95 and OCCT CPU-Z shows me 3400MHz and an 8x multi. Tread Phase Adjust in bios was set on auto to "6", when i manually set it to 7 and checked Everest it was 7.

Gonna have to do more testing.

[Buggalugs]

Richard how the hell do you get the bios off that German site? I clciked the Gigabyte link that lists all the bioses but its not there. Where can i find it?
Or maybe you can just put it on Rapidshare or something.

Edit Nevermind Richard i figured it out.

[Caped Crusader]

I flashed to F9c which is dated May 25th 2008...the layout of the bios has changed. M.I.T. is now the very first item in the menu (like what will happen with P45 based bios), inside the layout has changed slightly, i don't think any new options were added...just various voltage settings are grouped together different. The "CPU Fine Clock" option is totally greyed out now and cannot be changed.

I had major issues overclocking and O/C settings being accepted, even now while i'm in Windows i have two serious issues, the Performance Level is set to 8 according to Everest (latest build) even though 6 is set in bios (on Auto), and my CPU multi is locked at 6x when in bios i have i set to the standard 8x....so basically this is a botched bios.

[edit] know what, the problem could very well be with Everest 4.50.1383, because when i stress the CPU with Prime95 and OCCT CPU-Z shows me 3400MHz and an 8x multi. Tread Phase Adjust in bios was set on auto to "6", when i manually set it to 7 and checked Everest it was 7.

Gonna have to do more testing.

lol, after reading your post now I'm afraid of upgrading the damn BIOS and losing my stable profiles that were so hard to make

I guess it's handwriting time then...

[truehighroller]

lol, after reading your post now I'm afraid of upgrading the damn BIOS and losing my stable profiles that were so hard to make

I guess it's handwriting time then...

Lol none of mine like to stay set because of the cold boot bug any way so, I have all the memory settings and sch stuck in my brain. I don't even use that feature and how many profiles are you really gonna have any way?

[Buggalugs]

I havent noticed any issues with the F9c. Everything seems to be working right for me. Latency is much better, only occasional spikes now.

[Richard Dower]

More weirdness, i tried an older build of Everest and the same issues i reported above happened with that, also Vista reports my CPU speed at 3200MHz...when it should be 3400??...dunno, something is not quite right with this bios.

[Caped Crusader]

ok, I upgraded but didn't reset DMI info. saved my profile right after rebooting then coldbooted (powercord trick to avoid boot loop) with the usual profile. But first I tried 2.50A strap again but to no avail. I guess my Q6700 doesn't like that one, period. Stuck with 2.40B.

Latency didn't changed for me, it goes between 50 and 800/900 us as usual. Apart from the different menu configuration, everything else stayed pretty much unchanged. At least after superficial testing.

what I'd really like GB to fix is that annoying cold boot problem.

[truehighroller]

Yah the cold boot prob is bull . You can play with your performance level setting and probably get that strap working. I figured that out last night messing with mine. Certain straps only like certain performance level settings..

[Caped Crusader]

Yah the cold boot prob is bull . You can play with your performance level setting and probably get that strap working. I figured that out last night messing with mine. Certain straps only like certain performance level settings..

Nope. Tried 2.50A with all subtimings on AUTO and it wouldn't boot. Must be something else but I don't care anyway. To go from 1020 to 1063Mhz isn't worth the trouble.

[Richard Dower]

There is a new BETA driver for the Jmicron 363 up on the FTP: ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/W....17.38Beta.zip

R1.17.38Beta (05/23/08')

- Issue Correction
- Some systems can't be shut down if ODD is connected.

[Buggalugs]

Looks like I am getting some problems with the new bios. Overclocking and bios is ok but getting some strange windows errors like services shutting down, audio dropping out totally and i have to reboot to get it back and a couple of BSOD's. Some apps are crashing too. Alot less spikes but i cant live with a system like this.

I got some stuff on Ebay and as soon as it sells im getting a new board.

[DjLeco]

Hi, any stuff for gigabyte EX38-DQ6?
Mine doesn't allow more than FSB360 on E2140, wich was running FSB450+ on Commando.
Any bios settings, more than FSB 360, after reboot during bios settings and savings, resumes at FSB360...
And cannot boot from floppy...
But in windows, floppy works ok...
Dammit, what's wrong?
And first time, with E8500 FPO Q748A212, I've done SPI 1 Mb @ fsb 550 with only 0,1 volts in + for Vfsb and Vmch, and after normally reboot, with same settings, doesn't allow more than fsb 515 for 1 Mb spi, with any settings or voltages...
What the F**k...
@lien motherboard?

[Richard Dower]

New Intel Matrix Storage Manager drivers, WHQL dated April 20th 2008 and version 8.1.0.1001: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PM2N5ERG

[Hornet331]

Nope. Tried 2.50A with all subtimings on AUTO and it wouldn't boot. Must be something else but I don't care anyway. To go from 1020 to 1063Mhz isn't worth the trouble.

auto subtimings fail most of the time anyways, manual is the way to go.

[truehighroller]

auto subtimings fail most of the time anyways, manual is the way to go.

That what I was thinking but, I was to lazy to reply to it :P.

[Caped Crusader]

auto subtimings fail most of the time anyways, manual is the way to go.

yeah, I'm with all manual subtimings right now on 2.40B strap, but I'm too lazy to fiddle with 2.50A ATM

maybe I'll try again this weekend.

[Richard Dower]

Thats it, you have to manually enter subtimings. I'm using 2.50A alright here, but i had to set a smll few bios changes at a time whereas before with F9a i could make all the changes in one go.

[truehighroller]

Thats it, you have to manually enter subtimings. I'm using 2.50A alright here, but i had to set a smll few bios changes at a time whereas before with F9a i could make all the changes in one go.

What settings did you do in what steps?

[Richard Dower]

Official Intel Matrix Storage Manager, an even newer version with QHQL drivers dated May 7th 2008: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Deta...llName=Windows Vista*&lang=eng

Version 8.2.0.1001, you can also download the standalone drivers for OS installation for XP/Vista via Floppy or USB flash: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/conf...Name=&lang=eng

[Zenoth]

I just finished flashing from F8c to F9c and it worked perfectly well via Gigabyte's @BIOS utility. Indeed the MIT options is now the first one on the left side of the BIOS main menu. I've entered all of my OC settings (signature) and they worked well. I'll test them again over night just in case but I'm pretty certain that it hasn't made it worse, but certainly the same or just better.

So far all is very stable, and I noticed an extra 130'ish points increase in my EVEREST's Benchmark for the Memory latency. Is that the latency that has been "fixed"? Because I often read around that there was a "latency issue" but I don't know what it was, I don't recall ever seeing any latency issues with my previous F8c BIOS.

[steve30x]

I got an F4b Bios from Gigabyte a few days ago after 2 days of questions from them. Havent tried the bios yet because I havent been home with 5 days.

[EDIT] Ive just tested the F4b bios and I cannot OC with it. Also it makes the Latency problem worse.

[Buggalugs]

try pressing ctrl+f1 again Steve, but yeh if you have worse latency, maybe stick with the other one.

[Richard Dower]

Offical Intel Software Installation Utility, version 9.0.0.1008, June 2nd 2008: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filt...bmit=Go%21