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

[ThatGuy16]

Just for the record, have you tried loose timings and say 6x480 to 500fsb just to see that the board and cpu can cope with high fsb?

May have to set nb voltage high.

Actually, i haven't tried dropping the multi yet. Though i have added a fan to my NB and jacked the voltage up on it. Its helped moderately, but nothing that screams that its the issue. What timings would i try, they are 5-5-5-12 now.. so i should try 6-6-7-15?

My NB here http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...1/DSCF3500.jpg

Also, anyone running crossfire have problems with the board reading the slave cards temperature half of what it really is? My 3870s done this too, like the second card is running 40c, it tells me its 20c. Which is right obvious that its wrong...

[bluc]

really noobish question but what do I set bios boot order to to boot of a flash drive on X38-DQ6? want to create a custom windows pe installation flash drive and use it to install vista/update and programs in one go

[Dakkahun]

I believe you should select USB-HDD for it to work.

[Designer]

Hey ppl!

What's the most overclockable bios did you used to ?

I'm using F9D beta bios.. is there any never bios than that?

[brickmonkey]

GA-X38-DS5
E4500 @ 2200MHz ; OC'd to 3200 MHz (stable 24/7) - 1.5V core FSB = 320 x10 - Thermalright ultra 120 extreme
2x1GB team Group Xtreme DDR 800 - 4-4-4-12 (multiplier = 2.66C) strapping 200MHz
XFX 8600GT (540/700) OC'd to 900/1100 - pencil mod with a Thermalright HR-05 SLI tied with zip ties for cooling ( will do VR mod soon)
BIOS - F6

Okay here is my problem:- with the same strapping i cannot get a stable FSB of 325. I can boot into windows, but when running orthos, the PC crashes. Sometimes after 20 minutes of stress testing and sometimes after about an hour of stress testing. Tried playing around with the CPU and MCH clock skew (200ps-300ps) , no luck.

Another interesting fact is that even if i drop the CPU multiplier to x6, comp does not POST at anything above 335 FSB. I fail to understand this. Is my memory limiting me or is it the CPU itself ? The E4500 is designed to run at 800FSB.

My aim is to run a stable OC at 3.3 GHz.....pls help if possible.

[brickmonkey]

Another question , is it possible for me to use a DQ6 stable BIOS for the DS5 ? as they are essentially the same board ?

[Vazovskiiii]

hallo i have GA-X38T-DQ6 on ddr3 and i'm interested can i flash bios with X48 same model?

[Nuckin_Futs]

Can I get a recap on some of the known good 2x2g (4g kit) overclockinf RAM on this mobo? I found most average PC2-9600 to just be no better then just overclocking good DDR1066. I'm OK w/ 1155MHz if I can stay at cl5.

[mister_no]

Hi,

new bios (beta mod) with the new JMicron firmware...

http://rapidshare.com/files/198112546/x38dq6.f9g.html

[Muertus]

Hi,

new bios (beta mod) with the new JMicron firmware...

http://rapidshare.com/files/198112546/x38dq6.f9g.html

pls reupload, this link is dead.

and for info: what is JMicron?

[mister_no]

Hi,

the new Bios-MOD with new rom's:

ICH9R: v7.5.0.1017 -> v8.6.0.1007
JMicron: v1.06.59 -> v1.07.00
Realtek: v2.09 -> v2.25


http://rapidshare.com/files/200372979/x38dq6.f9x.html

History JMicron:

1.06.60 a. CF card uses the same CHS transfer rule with M-System. (X: not suggested)
1.06.60a a. CF card support CHS Support, few CF cards not support LBA mode
1.06.60b a. Disable Sata Port1 at the controller, which not has sata port1
1.06.61 a. for JMB361 Controller, because CLEVO use pheonix bios, it needs twice checksum of pnp structure.
1.06.62 a.Support Hdd set security freeze lock command requested by ASUS.
b.Add ROM version in Pnp Option ROM Header.
1.06.63 a.Build BCV/BEV independent on Pnp Installation check stucture
b.Clear checksumbyte of Pnp expansion header before building any BCV/BEV
1.06.64 a.Fix JMB360 fails to install Vistal with in-house's AHCI driver reported by ASUS.
1.06.65 a.Update JMB368 Bootrom class code to 0101.
1.06.66 a.Not reference to multi-function trap bit, GPIO0.,
to fix WinXP blue screen issue.
b.Set video mode to mode 3 at Option ROM entry.
c.Fix coding error induced device parity error interrupt.
d.Use R4Eh bit[0] to decide whether enter RAID Setu Menu or not
1.06.67 a.Support raid un-integrity caused by remaping
from single to stripe breaking.
1.06.68 a.Fixed stripe 0 remapping from Port 1 hdd to Port 0 hdd failing to read disk.
1.06.69 a.Using ATA Device Reset command instead of SRST to ATAPI device.
b.Replace space charcter by NULL character in jm_model field
to fix Linux raid failing to boot issue.
1.06.70 a.Fixed failing to boot Vista when PATA hdd uses 40 pin cable.
1.06.71 a.Expand JMB368 Option ROM size
b.Fixed multi-function PATA cable detection codeing error.
c.Pop up a window to ask user whether to del MBR on deleting Mirror RAID
d.Add Sandisk Serial Number Header Data Structure support
1.06.72 a.Randomize MBR.Disk_Signature while deleting MBR
1.06.73 a.Randomize MBR.Disk_Signature while creating a new RAID
1.06.74 a.Patch INT 1Ah issue of ECS Notebook using Phoenix BIOS.
b.Fixed mirror rebuild issue on nVidia C55 north bridge.
c.Hide cursor in RAID setup utility.
1.06.75
a.Fixed hdd programmed under wrong UDMA mode.
b.Add option rom revisin info in rom header.
1.06.79
a.Fix option rom for some special optical disk which assert interrupt abnormally.
1.07.00 a.Add retry to fix pio read the last sector of Segate 1500BG on reboot.
b.Add checking PxSERR.X Exchanged bit to see whether device present.

[Vazovskiiii]

Hi,

the new Bios-MOD with new rom's:

ICH9R: v7.5.0.1017 -> v8.6.0.1007
JMicron: v1.06.59 -> v1.07.00
Realtek: v2.09 -> v2.25


http://rapidshare.com/files/200372979/x38dq6.f9x.html

History JMicron:

1.06.60 a. CF card uses the same CHS transfer rule with M-System. (X: not suggested)
1.06.60a a. CF card support CHS Support, few CF cards not support LBA mode
1.06.60b a. Disable Sata Port1 at the controller, which not has sata port1
1.06.61 a. for JMB361 Controller, because CLEVO use pheonix bios, it needs twice checksum of pnp structure.
1.06.62 a.Support Hdd set security freeze lock command requested by ASUS.
b.Add ROM version in Pnp Option ROM Header.
1.06.63 a.Build BCV/BEV independent on Pnp Installation check stucture
b.Clear checksumbyte of Pnp expansion header before building any BCV/BEV
1.06.64 a.Fix JMB360 fails to install Vistal with in-house's AHCI driver reported by ASUS.
1.06.65 a.Update JMB368 Bootrom class code to 0101.
1.06.66 a.Not reference to multi-function trap bit, GPIO0.,
to fix WinXP blue screen issue.
b.Set video mode to mode 3 at Option ROM entry.
c.Fix coding error induced device parity error interrupt.
d.Use R4Eh bit[0] to decide whether enter RAID Setu Menu or not
1.06.67 a.Support raid un-integrity caused by remaping
from single to stripe breaking.
1.06.68 a.Fixed stripe 0 remapping from Port 1 hdd to Port 0 hdd failing to read disk.
1.06.69 a.Using ATA Device Reset command instead of SRST to ATAPI device.
b.Replace space charcter by NULL character in jm_model field
to fix Linux raid failing to boot issue.
1.06.70 a.Fixed failing to boot Vista when PATA hdd uses 40 pin cable.
1.06.71 a.Expand JMB368 Option ROM size
b.Fixed multi-function PATA cable detection codeing error.
c.Pop up a window to ask user whether to del MBR on deleting Mirror RAID
d.Add Sandisk Serial Number Header Data Structure support
1.06.72 a.Randomize MBR.Disk_Signature while deleting MBR
1.06.73 a.Randomize MBR.Disk_Signature while creating a new RAID
1.06.74 a.Patch INT 1Ah issue of ECS Notebook using Phoenix BIOS.
b.Fixed mirror rebuild issue on nVidia C55 north bridge.
c.Hide cursor in RAID setup utility.
1.06.75
a.Fixed hdd programmed under wrong UDMA mode.
b.Add option rom revisin info in rom header.
1.06.79
a.Fix option rom for some special optical disk which assert interrupt abnormally.
1.07.00 a.Add retry to fix pio read the last sector of Segate 1500BG on reboot.
b.Add checking PxSERR.X Exchanged bit to see whether device present.

is this ok for my X38T DQ6 DDR3?

[Muertus]

Hi,

the new Bios-MOD with new rom's:

ICH9R: v7.5.0.1017 -> v8.6.0.1007
JMicron: v1.06.59 -> v1.07.00
Realtek: v2.09 -> v2.25
.....

Where u find this bios? On official site gigabyte is only F9f.

[Lightning98]

Can someone help me out with a problem... i flashed to F9f beta when i put a Q9550 on my X38-DQ6, but when i try to install vista it simply refuses to use the RAID array created on the intel controller...

Switching CPU's to my old E4500 and BIOS version F8 the Vista install works without a problems, so a question, can i run the Q9550 on the F8 BIOS?? because gigabyte's webpage says it doesn't and i don't really wanna try swapping out CPU's and reflashing my BIOS all the time...

[Zenoth]

The RapidShare link for that new BIOS isn't working for me, anyone else? It brings me to a RapidShare Error page.

[Zenoth]

mister_no can you please re-host that file?

Thanks.

[Vazovskiiii]

can anybody tell me will this bios work on GA-X38t-DQ6 with ddr3 ? and second question is can i reflesh my GA-X38t-DQ6 with GA-X48t-DQ6 bios?

[AntiHeroUK]

Does anyone have a link to the latest beta bios for the x38-dq6?

[Zenoth]

Does anyone have a link to the latest beta bios for the x38-dq6?

The latest official BIOS is F9f, and is available at the Gigabyte's web-site.

But if you refer to the BIOS Mod posted here by mister_no just a few posts above then I've looked everywhere, and asked everyone I knew about that BIOS but no one knows where it's coming from, what's the source, and who is the author, it's possible that mister_no made it himself and hosted it.

The problem is that he hosted it on RapidShare and that he doesn't have an account there, so the file could be downloaded ten times until the link died out. He then hosted it again on RapidShare, but once more after ten downloads it's dead, so there's probably around twenty people around with that BIOS.

I've PM'ed mister_no almost two weeks ago but he never replied, he probably almost never come to this forum. If he does come back and reads this I'd certainly like to ask him to re-host that file and upload it somewhere else than on RapidShare (their free services suck, period).

[stasio]

Hi guys,today I will check with Taiwan R&D

[danielniel]

Hi all, i am a noob with this processor(QX9650 and GA-X38-DS5 bios 7d). i want to oc it to 4g or more if possible but i can not get it stable, now it is 3.8(400x9.5) with 1.375 vcore in bios but when i run prime95 i get errors of expected 0,0004 get 0,004999 .
Also have 8 gb of adata vitesta extreme 1066 5 5 5 18 @ 1066 v 2.2 (memory specifications uses 2.1-2.3)
Temps may not be a problem since as i am watercooled

[AntiHeroUK]

The latest official BIOS is F9f, and is available at the Gigabyte's web-site.

But if you refer to the BIOS Mod posted here by mister_no just a few posts above then I've looked everywhere, and asked everyone I knew about that BIOS but no one knows where it's coming from, what's the source, and who is the author, it's possible that mister_no made it himself and hosted it.

The problem is that he hosted it on RapidShare and that he doesn't have an account there, so the file could be downloaded ten times until the link died out. He then hosted it again on RapidShare, but once more after ten downloads it's dead, so there's probably around twenty people around with that BIOS.

I've PM'ed mister_no almost two weeks ago but he never replied, he probably almost never come to this forum. If he does come back and reads this I'd certainly like to ask him to re-host that file and upload it somewhere else than on RapidShare (their free services suck, period).

Thank-you for the reply. I was indeed referring to the BIOS posted by mister_no. Fingers crossed you get a reply from him

[Zenoth]

Hi guys,today I will check with Taiwan R&D

Thanks stasio, that is much appreciated.

[Dakkahun]

Well, this could be a sign that the chipset is reaching it's limits. Try upping the
MCH and FSB voltages a little. Good luck!

Hi all, i am a noob with this processor(QX9650 and GA-X38-DS5 bios 7d). i want to oc it to 4g or more if possible but i can not get it stable, now it is 3.8(400x9.5) with 1.375 vcore in bios but when i run prime95 i get errors of expected 0,0004 get 0,004999 .
Also have 8 gb of adata vitesta extreme 1066 5 5 5 18 @ 1066 v 2.2 (memory specifications uses 2.1-2.3)
Temps may not be a problem since as i am watercooled

[danielniel]

I have increased fsb v to 0.1 and mch to 0,075 but still prime crash, but the intel burn test pass with no errors