Forward: official GIGA 965P-S3/DS3/DS4/DQ6 beta BIOS

[arminkropp]

Ok forgive my newbieness, What is it about the C2 revision of the DS3 thats supposed to be better? Does it work better with the F8 Beta?

[Lestat]

I think the next thing I try actually will be a hardware reset via jumper of the bios and reset my settings and see where that gets me. Sometimes after a bios update with my old DFI board you had to shut down, reset the bios via jumper, wait 15 mins and start up and suddenly things would make a difference. I had reset to defaults within the bios itself but that's not always the solution either. Either way, I'll try what you suggest and hope that it somehow just starts working on it's own like it did for you. Strange things happen with computer hardware...

yes i always reset with the jumper.
and yes on certain occasions it does help.

people dont say it much anymore except those DFI boards, but you should always reset the cmos with the jumper after a flash, its the best way to clear out any old settings.

[davidos]

new bios today????

[Lestat]

none yet
but its only 8am O_o

[Richard Dower]

Intel have updated the SATA RAID bios ROM once again, version 6.2.0.2002, and new drivers to go with this are due very soon.

Also the Intel HECI driver has been updated for Intel QST:

http://downloadmirror.intel.com/df-s...S_VISTA_PV.EXE

This driver is nesscary when enabling Intel QST on the Gigabyte DQ6.

[HamidFULL]

Richard please get us link of all new intel drivers in ENG
tanx

[bingo13]

new bios today????

It will be released tonight. So far I went from 7x455 to 7x485 benchmark stable, board posted at 7x505 and could run a few benchmarks. This is with a wide variety of D9 from Corsair, GEIL, G.Skill, Crucial, and OCZ.

[FirePhoenixCtk]

It will be released tonight. So far I went from 7x455 to 7x485 benchmark stable, board posted at 7x505 and could run a few benchmarks. This is with a wide variety of D9 from Corsair, GEIL, G.Skill, Crucial, and OCZ.

How do you know this?? What boards?

[msgclb]

It will be released tonight.

Where do these bios get released from? Taiwan?

It is now Tuesday, November 7, 2006 at 1:55:29 AM in Taiwan.

[HeadShotWI]

Where do these bios get released from? Taiwan?

It is now Tuesday, November 7, 2006 at 1:55:29 AM in Taiwan.

Wow. Your like in the future and stuff. That makes my head hurt. Its only morning on Monday right now.

[JPH1589]

It will be released tonight. So far I went from 7x455 to 7x485 benchmark stable, board posted at 7x505 and could run a few benchmarks. This is with a wide variety of D9 from Corsair, GEIL, G.Skill, Crucial, and OCZ.

On October 12th you posted that the D9 problem had been solved and to expect the new bios in the next week. I guess you will say that you meant the beta bios, but it sounds fishy to me. For the record though, everyone hopes you are right.

Edit....the notes I have seen with the F8 beta only list fan issues that are fixed. They say nothing about the memory issues.

[MadMikeSS]

Well, people were saying the F8a beta fixed the D9 issue. I am running F8a on my S3 and I'm exactly where I was with the official F6 bios for the S3. Same wall at around 455. I hope the final version is truly the fix, but I'm not holding my breath at this point.

[bingo13]

On October 12th you posted that the D9 problem had been solved and to expect the new bios in the next week. I guess you will say that you meant the beta bios, but it sounds fishy to me. For the record though, everyone hopes you are right.

Edit....the notes I have seen with the F8 beta only list fan issues that are fixed. They say nothing about the memory issues.

It was fixed in the F8B on 10/23, only issue was that the PCI-E lock did not work correctly so your hard drive image was subject to being destroyed. The F8D fixed the PCI-E issue but broke the X-FI recognition again. The F8F I have been using the last couple of days works correctly and if QA passes it this evening (tomorrow morning Taiwain) then it will be released. If you do not want me working on these BIOS releases with Gigabyte then just say so, hate for anything to sound fishy.

[bingo13]

How do you know this?? What boards?

I am testing the BIOS currently. It will be released first for the DS3 and then the S3 next week. The next release still needs some fine tuning as not all D9 based modules perform the same. My current range is 7x485 to 7x505 with a wide variety of D9 modules.

[Lestat]

^^^^^^^^^^
*cough cough*

[Lestat]

I am testing the BIOS currently. It will be released first for the DS3 and then the S3 next week. The next release still needs some fine tuning as not all D9 based modules perform the same. My current range is 7x485 to 7x505 with a wide variety of D9 modules.

was it any easier for you to do 7x485 ? or 505?

and have you tested on a divider.
some boards get flaky on a divider, which makes it impossible to reach 1000mhz for many people as their FSB wont even hit 450 let alone 500.


and you heard anything on the C2 boards ? i would have hoped that most US shops would be carrying the C2 DS3 by now.


and YES we want you to test these bios's and help everyone out.
same with kenofstephens.
all your help is greatly appreciated.
without you guys ... ugh i dont even wanna go there

[davidos]

was it any easier for you to do 7x485 ? or 505?

and you heard anything on the C2 boards ? i would have hoped that most US shops would be carrying the C2 DS3 by now.

I bought my DS3 from Newegg on 9/20/06 and it's a C2...

still barfs with D9 though...

bingo13: did you test with the Crucial Anniversary D9 sticks? Similar to the Ballistix PC5300...

[MadMikeSS]

It was fixed in the F8B on 10/23, only issue was that the PCI-E lock did not work correctly so your hard drive image was subject to being destroyed. The F8D fixed the PCI-E issue but broke the X-FI recognition again. The F8F I have been using the last couple of days works correctly and if QA passes it this evening (tomorrow morning Taiwain) then it will be released. If you do not want me working on these BIOS releases with Gigabyte then just say so, hate for anything to sound fishy.

How about sharing the F8F bios with me and I'll tell if it's really fixed.

[HRPufnStuf]

I'm anxious to see the new beta bios for my DS3 - I just got some 10th Anniversary memory myself. Haven't messed with it much but currently @ 430 4-4-4-10 2.2v on 8x with my WEAK 24 e6600. I'm only had the memory for a day so i haven't messed with it much yet.

CAS 3 was fine up to about 390, but I was getting lock up issues until I went to 410 and above. I just kicked the CAS to 4 at that time to eliminate any memory-limiting issues.

[Lestat]

yeah Cas 3 is not something that will work on the DS3 boards at 400 or above.
don't even try.
the chipset latencies are not going to like you if you do.

and the fact that it BARELY does 1000mhz im sorry to say isnt good enough.
this same ram can run circles around itself on another board like the P5B Dlx, and they are both 965 chipsets.
so what is gigabyte doing wrong??
they are working with asus now so tell them to go and talk to them to find out what to do.

it's also not going to give you any better memory performance since its only 50mhz if even that.
BUT, it will let you get higher on the cpu freq. which is a good thing.
and since we're talking conroe's here, thats what counts most, cpu mhz

[HRPufnStuf]

Thanks LeStat - like I said i haven't messed with it much yet. Tonight I'll see how far it can go with the 8x or 7x multi, just to see where my wall is with this D9GMH ram....

Be much funner if I had the new beta bios to mess with.....

[Lestat]

How about sharing the F8F bios with me and I'll tell if it's really fixed.

well see you have to pay me,,, then i have to pay Bingo... who then pay's his people.
see its all a conspiracy!

[aldamon]

double-post

[MadMikeSS]

well see you have to pay me,,, then i have to pay Bingo... who then pay's his people.
see its all a conspiracy!

And by the time we got all that squared away the F10 bios would be out.

[aldamon]

The F8D fixed the PCI-E issue but broke the X-FI recognition again.

What are they doing exactly that's breaking the X-Fi? I know you said they fixed it again in the following BIOS, but I'm just curious.

I am testing the BIOS currently. It will be released first for the DS3 and then the S3 next week. The next release still needs some fine tuning as not all D9 based modules perform the same. My current range is 7x485 to 7x505 with a wide variety of D9 modules.

Do you guys have some TEAM D9GMH to test?