Quote Originally Posted by pangingIII View Post
@Jor3lBR,

i like to update about the NB/MCH core voltage limitation, i just tested it right before i posted this.

this is a 1.50v MCH core, i set MCH ref. to "Normal"
after the CMOS is saved the system boots up fine in to Windows, i already try rebooting a couple time to see if it boots, it's seem okay so far to use MCH core voltage above the value you mentiond with 333 strap and 2.4B.

the rest of voltage and ref. settings in bios i just happen to picked all these values when i set the CMOS just to see if i could boot the system. this doesn't mean i can stable my Q9300 with this setting yet.
however, it seems to me that may be i will need less voltages than this since my 500x7 stable with quite less volts than this one.
Thanks for looking into this panging I tried everything but it's a still no go, probably I need 1Gb sticks it may be ram related.

Using 333/2:40b strap if I boot with NORMAL on MCH volts it will get in Windows with 1.1vmch and if I try to raise to 1.5vmch on ET6 = Instant OS Freeze. Again if I raise in increments to 1.440vmch everything will go fine but after that freeze in OS or no boot in DOS

If I boot on AUTO (Mch core) it will double boot and restore defaults, probably because it's trying to set it above 1.440mch.

Funny thing is nobody on Gigabyte seams to have an answer for this.

Oh before I forget I have 2 boards and tried this on like 4 boards. Versions 1.0rev and 1.1rev.

I will try 1Gb sticks and see.