Quote Originally Posted by Jor3lBR View Post
There is a bug on the 2:40b strap that wont let you boot with 2 sticks of 2Gb above 1.4vmch set in Bios (some can go higher some lower).

You can use 2:40B strap as long as your Vmch in bios is around 1.40v. You can change that thru ET6 later if needed.

So try to boot 1066 with 2:40b strap and low Vmch then report back.

Here is what I have come up with. On my board(And apparently Hoss's board as well) the voltage for MCH has nothing to do with getting the 2.4B multi to boot. At 9x470FSB I have tried 1.34, 1.36, 1.38 and 1.40 MCH voltage. All of my attempts failed to boot. I began lowering the FSB down from 9x470 in 10mhz increments, at 430FSB all of a sudden I was able to boot into windows no problem(This was done all on 1.34/1.34 MCH/VTT). After I was able to boot at 430FSb I began raising the FSB by 1mhz untill I could no longer boot. I discovered that as long as the FSB was under exactly 435FSB you can boot with 2.4B and above 434FSB you can not boot with 2.4B strap.

All that said, the 2.4B strap is the most important one for myself to use with my 9x470-9x475 clocks because of the limitations of my 1100mhz RAM. Because the single most useful RAM multi to me is bugged I am really getting pissed at Gigabyte for not having this thing fixed already. I have been booting at 434FSB and then raising the FSB with ET6, however there is a problem with that. One of my programs(Fritz GUI) will not recognize the change that ET6 has made, even though my processor is running at 4.23ghz the program is reporting 3.9ghz and this is causing very annoying performance issues with my game engines.


Does ANYONE know if Gigabyte is planning on fixing this problem in the future? Has anyone contacted Gigabytes support people about this? If there is a good e-mail to reach them at let me know and I am going to start bugging the out of them until they resolve it in a bios update.