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

[Alcibiades]

Hello people who still uses the X38-DQ6 (and others too)!

New beta BIOSes here: http://www.jzelectronic.de/jz2/index.php

X38-DQ6 F9f

1. Stepping E0 Ready

How does one actually get to download this bios from this link?

[DitzelCWB]

How does one actually get to download this bios from this link?

here http://www.jzelectronic.de/jz2/news....ige2&z=1&ssl=1 go on the bottom and select ga-x38-dq6 - version f9f in the drop-down menu, or click the link below

http://www.jzelectronic.de/jz2/Bios/x38dq6f9f.exe

[Alcibiades]

here http://www.jzelectronic.de/jz2/news....ige2&z=1&ssl=1 go on the bottom and select ga-x38-dq6 - version f9f in the drop-down menu, or click the link below

http://www.jzelectronic.de/jz2/Bios/x38dq6f9f.exe

thanks for that, now i know to scroll to the bottom and select from drop down box
thank you, will flash and see what happens

[Caped Crusader]

How does one actually get to download this bios from this link?

Sorry dude, didn't realize it wouldn't give the direct link...

[Kashelz]

Hey, anyone tested here GA-X38-DQ6 F9F BIOS? Looks like not stable at all, some memory dividers dos not work, can boot in to OS, but Prime95 fails after some minutes.

Tested it like 333 x 9 and mem to 1000 Mhz 266 strap, not woking, but when tested 400 x 8 to CPU and mem to 1000 same Mhz and setings but diferent mem divider, prime went ok 1+ hour. Looks like time to check F9D, before these I used F9A for my Q6600 and 4 x 1Gb memory @ 425 x 9 1:1 @ 4-4-4-8

[Dakkahun]

Hello. I haven't tested it, so far the 9b bios I'm using is acceptable. I'm waiting for a final version myself.
Also, for those with nvidia cards and driver version 177.26, there was a huge latency problem which i solved using forceware 177.83, without physx

[il menne]

Hey, anyone tested here GA-X38-DQ6 F9F BIOS? Looks like not stable at all, some memory dividers dos not work, can boot in to OS, but Prime95 fails after some minutes.

Tested it like 333 x 9 and mem to 1000 Mhz 266 strap, not woking, but when tested 400 x 8 to CPU and mem to 1000 same Mhz and setings but diferent mem divider, prime went ok 1+ hour. Looks like time to check F9D, before these I used F9A for my Q6600 and 4 x 1Gb memory @ 425 x 9 1:1 @ 4-4-4-8

I have installed f9f bios.

333*9fsb and mem sticks at 1000mhz, my system is rock solid...

[Kashelz]

I have installed f9f bios.

333*9fsb and mem sticks at 1000mhz, my system is rock solid...

I would say beware of F9F BIOS, all is bad with it! After some days when I powered PC on, I got BIOS corrupted, it wanted to recovery, but did not go anything farther. Powered off, then powered on and then it recovered successfully. I wanted to flash different BIOS, but didnt it, after few days PC woudnt post any more. Cycling all the time, leds on, after some secons off and then again on and off, all the time goes that!

After clearing cmos, changing memorys, VGA, CPU, removing/replacing all other hardware no luck to post again successfully. Looks like board is dead now

After all I packaged the board and sent it to shop for replacement, its in service now more than one week already. Looks like there is no X38 boards in stock anymore, so maybe time to check X48-DQ6? Maybe other board to recommend for 4 x 1Gb D9GMH DDR2 and Q6600 that can take 3.9 Ghz?

[HeadShotWI]

I am at my WITS END! PLEASE HELP! About a month ago I updated my bios to the most recent available on Gigabyte. It was fine for 1 reboot and then refused to post any longer. I sent it to Gigabyte and they sent my motherboard back to me immediately and said it posted just fine.

I was furious. I did my due diligence testing the motherboard pulling it out of case and firing it up on a bench. I escalated and was told I would be getting a brand new motherboard sent me to after sending it back.

I recieved the supposed new motherboard yesterday. It was in the wrong motherboard box and in a taped anti static bag. I shrugged this off and fired it up on my workbench and BAMN! I see the gigabyte screen. Success!

I put it in my case, am very careful and get things set to fire back up and then the problems start. Sometimes when I power it on it will post, sometimes it won't, I tried instaling vista and it had some kind of weird error just loading in to the installation screen about winload.exe not being able to be loaded. Then I get some crazy weird trap exception error messages in the bios screen. It was just white text on black background during the bios post. It completely froze and I rebooted again and now the damn thing just sits here turning on off on off every second. Everything just spins up and starts and it just powers off again and cycles.

I've tried using just one stick of memory and reconnecting everything carefully but it appears this motherboard is ed.

Am I crazy or are these ass holes coninually sending me defective junk. It's been over a month that I have been down and I am being SERIOUS impacted by this and these guys are complete morons on the phone. I don't know what recourse I have. I paid 270 bucks for this ninemonths ago.

I feel totally screwed and I really don't have buckets of money to start buying new processors and powersupplies to try and rule thoseout. They are already high quality thermaltake modular 700watt psu and e8400 cpu six months old.

Any suggestions?

Disclaimer: I have been overclocking for years and fully understand bios settings, memory straps, etc and have this sucker set up to basically failsafe settings.