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

[jason str]

Gigabyte @BIOS v2.02
HERE

This the bios for my GA-P35-S3G ?

Any info you can give if it is ?

[stasio]

GA-P35-S3G
1. Support for @BIOS
2. Support for Download Center
3. Support for Q-Flash
4. Support for EasyTune
5. Support for Xpress Install
6. Support for Xpress Recovery2
7. Support for Virtual Dual BIOS
LINK

[jason str]

Thank you stasio i will give that bios update a try.

[Mr.Bones]

F13 bios is out for the DS4 2.0 revision dated 7-21-08 supports new e8600 E0 stepping

[jason str]

Ok problem solved got the E6850 to 3.4 so far i need to wait until my arctic silver cures a bit im running around 60-65 deg C with an extra 80 mm fan pulling on the A/C Freezer. Hopefully i will drop a few degrees once the cure is completed and the hot weather is gone 3.6 is my goal so far so good. Ran orthos for 5 1/2 hours on blend and had to raise the cpu voltage a bit to keep from failing. Great board so far im pleased with my purchase.

[Cuthalu]

How well does ds3p/ds4 handle quads? Goes over 475MHz?

[Burner27]

im using a ds3r and wondering if anyone is using a gtx260 and notice any problems. Just wondering since the board is pcix 1.0 while the card is a pcix 2.0.

No Issues.

[cincyrob]

HEY ALL. I Just replaced ny GA-P35-DS3R 2.0revision with a GA-EP35C-DS3R 2.1revision
is there gonna be any noticable changes in this board other than the DDR3 slots?

and if anyone that has this board. did yours come with the NB cooler bolted to the mobo or have the plastic white push pins? my P35-ds3r had the push pins. a buddy of mine has the same board as i do now and his has the push pins as well. mine has the cool bolted down and is alot more sturdy.

[vanovich]

can anyone tell me whats the highest fsb on p35 dq6? and which ics to use in soft fsb ,im at 555 fsb so far on air .

[stasio]

New bios P35DQ6-F9A


HERE
or
HERE
Fixed Intel RAID ROM issue

[LifeStealer]

Anything new in it?

[LifeStealer]

JMICRON Driver update:

ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/W...1.17.41.01.zip

[stasio]

New bios
P35-S3L-F8A
P35-DS4-F14A
P35-DS3l-F9A
P35C-DS3R-F12A

[Ricasete]

Thanks from Portugal Stasio.

I usually update bios on my DQ6 after your posts.

Do you see any improvment on F9A?

[stasio]

Gigabyte @BIOS v2.03
Gigabyte Face Wizard B8.0820.1
HERE
JMICRON Driver update R1.17.42.04
HERE
For P35 boards not much improvment in bios

[KeyCat]

Having a GigaByte P35-DQ6 Rev 1.0 and having major cold boot issues since upgrading BIOS from F4 to F8

After the F8 BIOS update the computer would be stuck in a boot loop (ON/OFF/ON/OFF/ON/OFF...) without even initialized the video on every cold boot (warm boot works perfectly fine). The only way to get the MB up running again was to break the power and clear the CMOS, after that it booted and allowed me in to the BIOS settings again and of course I had to reset all BIOS settings!?

Seeing Gigabyte pulled F8 from their site and released F9A I downloaded it and re-flashed with Q-Bios (and loaded "Fail-Safe Defaults" etc.). At first things looked OK but next day when I pushed the power button I'm now greeted with a blinking power LED and the text shown below on the screen (this is on cold boots only, warm boots or resuming from S3 works perfectly fine)...

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Award BootBlock BIOS v1.0
Copyright (c) 2000, Award Software, Inc.

Scanning BIOS Image in Hard Drive ...

BIOS Auto-Recovering ._

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After pressing the reset button a couple of times it boots up OK and everything works fine until the next time I shut down the computer. At least F9A isn't stuck in a booting loop and improved somewhat so I don't have to clear the CMOS everytime I completely shut down the computer and restart it the next day but thats only a minor help...

The computer have been running perfectly fine - except for issues when waking up from S3 (STR) that I tried to fix with the BIOS update - for almost a year with F4 BIOS and the hardware/settings are the same (see below) and no OC. I've also tried with a brand new PSU but problem was the same.

Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (@ stock 3.0 GHz)
Gigabyte P35-DQ6 (Rev 1.0) with F9A BIOS
2x1 GB Corsair Dominator CM2X1024-8500C5D @ 1066 MHz (5-5-5-15 2T)
GeForce 7950 GT 512 MB PCIe x16
Antec TruePower Trio 550 W PSU
2 x Seagate 250 GB ST3250620AS SATA II HDD's (running in IDE mode)
1 x Pioneer DVD-ROM 106
SB Live PCI card (used for the gameport only)

Anyone else experienced these cold boot problems or have any ideas?

/KC

[Tantawi]

P35-DQ6 Bios F9B (beta) Available on Gigabyte site.

[stasio]

Thanx,Tantawi

[KeyCat]

Tried F9B but unfortunately it made my cold boot issue worse! Got stuck in a boot loop without initializing the display and eventually after many retries/resets/CMOS clears it booted and I flashed back to F9A with Q-Flash and now I'm even affraid to turn this computer completely OFF over night in fear of it won't boot up again...

Anyone having a clue whats going on here? Greatly appreciate any input...

/KC

[rge]

Tried F9B but unfortunately it made my cold boot issue worse! Got stuck in a boot loop without initializing the display and eventually after many retries/resets/CMOS clears it booted and I flashed back to F9A with Q-Flash and now I'm even affraid to turn this computer completely OFF over night in fear of it won't boot up again...

Anyone having a clue whats going on here? Greatly appreciate any input...

/KC

The only time I get cold boot reset hell on mine is when I have less than stable settings. As I understand you are on stock/auto? If so changing bios may lead to different timings (via auto settings being different). I used to get reboot hell sometimes when using auto and PC8500 1066 with 5,5,5,15 settings, if tRD (static tRead value) was auto set to 6 or 7, which is why my settings are always manual...even when I update a bios (no way am I putting load defaults with new bios as suggested with my past experience with auto settings). I have used probably every beta bios from very early on and just changed to 9b.

I have all settings manual except static t read phase adjust (because GB did not put a 0 option for manual, which seriously pisses me off as it autochanges sometimes when changing other settings...causing reboot hell, but that's another subject). In fact it autochanged to 17 from 0 when I removed my OC settings

Pic below LEFT is very stable, safe stock settings on mine, in case you want to try manual, but cant guarantee they will work on yours. (My normal OC 24/7 settings are on RIGHT). You have to let the f**#(*$ phaseadjust do what it pleases on auto, and hope it does not screw you.

If trying settings on LEFT, I would change all at once, then save restart. If that solves your problem, and you want to run ram at 1066, then you will need to figure out which settings are causing the problem.

*if you decide to OC, I have to UP voltages first from stable settings, hit F10 save and soon as back to bios (dont have to load windows) reenter bios then increase mhz, etc. If I fail to do this, I get reboot hell everytime, almost like it reads mhz before knowing the voltage has been increased.*

[KeyCat]

Thank you for the info rge! I will try your settings and see if it changes anything...

/KC

[rge]

Thank you for the info rge! I will try your settings and see if it changes anything...

/KC

Actually since I updated to 9B, I had my computer shut down for temp testing, and it got stuck in reboot after being off for about 30 minutes...had to remove cmos battery.

maybe something is wrong with F9betas. I would have gone back to F8, but I did not save it and not available on GB site. Back to F7 final...it works fine on mine, left off for 20 minutes...no problem with my OC settings, and I have cold rebooted from that one several times.

[stasio]

Yeah,I also don't know why they move F8 and F9a?

[GazC]

I don't suppose if anyone can find out if there are any hidden bios settings for these boards, particularly the DQ6?

I don't know a right lot about bios editing.

[By0T0xN]

Hey guys, I'm looking for a little direction on my GA P35-DS3P. I'm having problems with stability, crashes, and random reboots. I'm running a E8400 (vid is 1.225) at stock clocks and can't get it to pass even 5 runs of IBT. Temps are 32 @idle and 47 under load. I've checked vcore (cpuz) and realized it was undervolting when a load was put on it. So i upped the voltage to counter act vdroop and ran IBT again. Still fails. Sometimes it will pass 4 out of 5 and other times 1 out of 5. So i kicked the voltage up a little more and still the same results. I tried then to raise the GMCH and FSB volts 1 notch and still fails. I ran memtest 86+ 2.01 and passed 3 passes at stock vdimm and clocks. What am I missing here? Any help is appreciated.