** Official ** Gigabyte UD3 P45 Series -- EP45-UD3 / EP45-UD3R / EP45-UD3P

[clo007]

Gigabyte needs to give you a life time free motherboard supply, I remember at the beginning of the year seeing you post about only being able to run single ch mem. If you are still running single ch on a giga board you are truly a loyal customer, someone from gigabyte needs to read this thread and see the issues you have had and make it right. I would have abandoned gigabyte long ago and joined zsamz in the "I hate gigabut" club. Honestly I would be extremely pissed off and never purchase another product from them.

I like the board and its overclockability. I just wish i could get dual channel memory going. Funny thing is, I bought this one from a member here and he said he had no issue running dual channel mode, so I have no freaking clue why it would work for him but not for me.

its nothin new either the board works great or it has memory slot problems
piss poor quality control
but not bein able to run duallchannel is totally unacceptable

clo007 are they sending you the same board back ??

I have not rma'd a board. I just buy new ones form people or I flat out returned to newegg twice now.



I am going to pull all my stuff out of my case this weekend and see if I can get dual channel running. I don't know if its a grounding issue, some sort of corrupted file somewhere or what not. The last time I talked to gigabyte about the board they were very unhelpful. I posted the email conversation far back in this thread on what they said.

I like the board but I want it to work to its full capacity. maybe I need to suck it up and go for a different manufacturer, but who? i was thinking Asus but I keep reading bad things about them too now.

[Gaul]

TO touch FSB > 500, my UD3R need Vnb = 1.600

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=856772

[OC Nub]

I like the board and its overclockability. I just wish i could get dual channel memory going. Funny thing is, I bought this one from a member here and he said he had no issue running dual channel mode, so I have no freaking clue why it would work for him but not for me.

I have not rma'd a board. I just buy new ones form people or I flat out returned to newegg twice now.



I am going to pull all my stuff out of my case this weekend and see if I can get dual channel running. I don't know if its a grounding issue, some sort of corrupted file somewhere or what not. The last time I talked to gigabyte about the board they were very unhelpful. I posted the email conversation far back in this thread on what they said.

I like the board but I want it to work to its full capacity. maybe I need to suck it up and go for a different manufacturer, but who? i was thinking Asus but I keep reading bad things about them too now.

For the q9550 it is one of the best boards around. You said maybe some sort of corrupted file, have you tried it on a fresh install? Not an image of an old install but a fresh install.

[zsamz_]

I like the board and its overclockability. I just wish i could get dual channel memory going. Funny thing is, I bought this one from a member here and he said he had no issue running dual channel mode, so I have no freaking clue why it would work for him but not for me.

I have not rma'd a board. I just buy new ones form people or I flat out returned to newegg twice now.



I am going to pull all my stuff out of my case this weekend and see if I can get dual channel running. I don't know if its a grounding issue, some sort of corrupted file somewhere or what not. The last time I talked to gigabyte about the board they were very unhelpful. I posted the email conversation far back in this thread on what they said.

I like the board but I want it to work to its full capacity. maybe I need to suck it up and go for a different manufacturer, but who? i was thinking Asus but I keep reading bad things about them too now.

verry weird
and as if most are honest if board functionin properly
u should rma 1 straight to gigabut
from the 3 boards i have touched only mine is perfect only issue with others is limited 4x1 clocking

[nugzo]

For the q9550 it is one of the best boards around. You said maybe some sort of corrupted file, have you tried it on a fresh install? Not an image of an old install but a fresh install.

What does install have to do with it? or am i missing something. Install shouldnt have anything to do with your boards not working with dual channel. Wont even POST with dual channel config right?

[stasio]

Revised GA-EP45-UD3P -BIOS F10j
released 01.Dec 09

[Hoss331]

That didnt take long to fix the cpuz issues.

[stasio]

That didnt take long to fix the cpuz issues.

Yeah,just need your respond guys.

[Hoss331]

Well how about fixing S3?

[andressergio]

Well how about fixing S3?

+1

and what about better latency

Thanks Stasio !!!

Cheers
Sergio

[Gaul]

anyone ever try F12 for UD3R ???

[stasio]

anyone ever try F12 for UD3R ???

BIOS F12 for UD3R is not released yet.

[Leeghoofd]

I want some bios updates for the T series... Go go Raymond !!

[gurusan]

I've really hated my EP45C-UD3R....ever since I've moved from my old P5Q Deluxe I've hated pretty much every other board, but none was as bad as the EP45C! It has FSB holes all over the place and only a couple of the dividers work, and it's barely stable at pretty much any overclock.

However, I am still convinced that the Gigabyte series is worth trying so I've got myself an EP45T-UD3P. I certainly hope this works out for me as so far my 775 DDR3 adventures have been less than amazing :/

If this doesn't do it for me then I dunno what I'll do.

[Jor3lBR]

I've really hated my EP45C-UD3R....ever since I've moved from my old P5Q Deluxe I've hated pretty much every other board, but none was as bad as the EP45C! It has FSB holes all over the place and only a couple of the dividers work, and it's barely stable at pretty much any overclock.

However, I am still convinced that the Gigabyte series is worth trying so I've got myself an EP45T-UD3P. I certainly hope this works out for me as so far my 775 DDR3 adventures have been less than amazing :/

If this doesn't do it for me then I dunno what I'll do.

DDR2 versions > DDR3 if you read the thread only a couple of people got the DDR3 boards going, and all had a lot of problem to stabilize them.

[Gaul]

BIOS F12 for UD3R is not released yet.

i've ever see, but still on BETA

[radaja]

I've really hated my EP45C-UD3R....ever since I've moved from my old P5Q Deluxe I've hated pretty much every other board, but none was as bad as the EP45C! It has FSB holes all over the place and only a couple of the dividers work, and it's barely stable at pretty much any overclock.

However, I am still convinced that the Gigabyte series is worth trying so I've got myself an EP45T-UD3P. I certainly hope this works out for me as so far my 775 DDR3 adventures have been less than amazing :/

If this doesn't do it for me then I dunno what I'll do.

i agree with Jor3lbr,you should have saved your self some trouble and just got the ddr2 variant,its about as solid as its gets.


clo007,man im so sorry to hear your still dealing with this issue.

[gurusan]

Well I see people with the Ep45T extreme doing 500+ fsb clocks and leeghoofd seemed to do well with the UD3P

[radaja]

yea it can be done but the ddr2 board is the way to go.
ddr3 and p45's arent the best match.

[paul_]

BIOS F12 for UD3R is not released yet.

Argh... the F9 BIOS really isn't that good either, I'm thinking of reverting to F6. They haven't released a good BIOS for the UD3R for quite some time.

[OC Nub]

What does install have to do with it? or am i missing something. Install shouldnt have anything to do with your boards not working with dual channel. Wont even POST with dual channel config right?

Nothing that I know of but when he said he thought it maybe a corrupted file and this problem has been going on for almost a year, I was wondering how long he goes before doing a fresh install. I had some issues with my DQ6 when switching from the ud3p on the same install, I uninstalled my ud3p drivers and installed new ones but still wouldn't run right (being lazy), had to do a fresh install and it worked like it was suppose to after. I know some people don't format when they get a new motherboard, just change to the new drivers. Sometimes you can run into problems this way.
If I had to bet, I would say it is his memory, even if he tried a different set. I have 3 ud3p boards, 2 rev 1.1's and a rev 1.0. One of the rev 1.1 boards will not let me boot with 2 sticks of my g.skill 9600pi's, have to boot first with a single stick, clock it where i want and then can add the second stick but becomes unstable, the same mem in my other boards is fine and passes memtest and blend. In that same board my 1066 g.skill, ocz reapers,ocz lv plats and mushkin redlines all work fine. Something isn't right with his setup, he has had more than 1 board with the same issue and the guy he got this one from said he had it running in dual channel with no problems.

[falloutboy]

I like the board and its overclockability. I just wish i could get dual channel memory going. Funny thing is, I bought this one from a member here and he said he had no issue running dual channel mode, so I have no freaking clue why it would work for him but not for me.

Hey maybe u should try something ...
take an Eraser (u know the one u use in school to erase pencil...) and clean ur ram sticks , make it shine. >>>

anyway ... i have somekind of volt problem ... i own p45-ud3p + q6600.
seems like i can't use any more than 1.5930 Vcore .
for example i can run my system stable at 1.5930 Vcore @ 3.8ghz but if i use the same setting for 3.8ghz with like 1.6 vcore and above ... it wont even boot to windows :s .
i really want to hit 4ghz and i know my chip can do it .
sorry, bad english .

[clo007]

i agree with Jor3lbr,you should have saved your self some trouble and just got the ddr2 variant,its about as solid as its gets.


clo007,man im so sorry to hear your still dealing with this issue.

It was not a big issue but now that I am doing a lot more rendering and photoshopping, I need all the ram I can get.

Nothing that I know of but when he said he thought it maybe a corrupted file and this problem has been going on for almost a year, I was wondering how long he goes before doing a fresh install. I had some issues with my DQ6 when switching from the ud3p on the same install, I uninstalled my ud3p drivers and installed new ones but still wouldn't run right (being lazy), had to do a fresh install and it worked like it was suppose to after. I know some people don't format when they get a new motherboard, just change to the new drivers. Sometimes you can run into problems this way.
If I had to bet, I would say it is his memory, even if he tried a different set. I have 3 ud3p boards, 2 rev 1.1's and a rev 1.0. One of the rev 1.1 boards will not let me boot with 2 sticks of my g.skill 9600pi's, have to boot first with a single stick, clock it where i want and then can add the second stick but becomes unstable, the same mem in my other boards is fine and passes memtest and blend. In that same board my 1066 g.skill, ocz reapers,ocz lv plats and mushkin redlines all work fine. Something isn't right with his setup, he has had more than 1 board with the same issue and the guy he got this one from said he had it running in dual channel with no problems.

I have done a fresh install before, even bought a new hdd and did a new install...it doesn't work. originally everything worked great on my second board(first one was DOA) and then one day the board would not boot. I took out a stick and it ran since. After a while, I bought another board, a rev 1.1 hoping it would be fixed. It did not. I bought a new hdd and did a new install and it still would not work. I bought this last board from a member here who had it running in dual channel. This time, I did not do a fresh install however. I may pull my raptor drive back out, do a fresh install and see what happens.At some point, I don't think a fresh install should be the answer to this kind of issue. Others have had it with the same motherboard.

Hey maybe u should try something ...
take an Eraser (u know the one u use in school to erase pencil...) and clean ur ram sticks , make it shine. >>>

Great second post dude...(that is sarcasm by the way). Don't you think I have tried all of that? Scroll through the 200 pages then come in and give me advice, thanks.

[clo007]

BIOS F12 for UD3R is not released yet.

F12e beta? what kind of updates are happening? There really needs to be a change log.

[paul_]

cloo007, it sounds like if you've gone through that much trouble with all of the other hardware, it's time to RMA/get new RAM. I hate to say it, but there seems to be no other explanation for the problem, other than maybe an issue with the processor. Speaking of which, have you swapped the processors?