Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Thread

[i2kdave]

Has anyone had any trouble with this motherboard recognizing IDE drives? Back when I first got mine, I had an 80GB backup hard drive and a DVD burner connected to the IDE channel and sometimes it wouldn't recognize the DVD drive during bootup. I had read that optical drives could be troublesome when hooked to the same channel as a hard drive, and I wanted to upgrade to a SATA DVD burner anyway, so I got one and took out the old one, figuring that would take care of the problem. Now, occasionally during bootup it recognizes my main 160GB SATA drive and then it recognizes my backup drive as the same type of drive (it's 80GB, not 160GB). When this happens, it takes several minutes to boot up and load windows. Today I finally just decided to take the IDE drive out altogether and use it as an external, but I would really like to know why I'm having this problem. Anyone have any ideas?

[PGT96AJT]

Were you setting the jumpers on the drives right? [Master, Slave, Cable Select]

[i2kdave]

Yeah, I checked those a dozen times. When I had both the hard drive and DVD drive hooked up, I tried it with the hard drive as master and DVD as slave, vice versa, and both on cable select. After I got rid of the old DVD drive, I had the hard drive set to "single or master."

[EllisD]

Hey everyone

Great thread, i have been reading it since i decided to make the jump to intel and decided on this board for my budget system. Great bang for the buck i must say. I have found my way around it pretty well so far, seeing as i havent touched an intel system since....well....forever, lol.

One thing that bothers me though, are the voltage values. I dont like the whole + value system with them essentially keeping the defaults hidden. Coming from a DFI board, i was able to set actual voltage numbers and verify them at checkpoints around the motherboard with a Digital Multimeter. I then did the same with the PSU voltages and compensated MBM5 (motherboard monitor) values so i would get correct values in windows.

My question is whether or not anyone knows the points on the motherboard to check the various voltages so i can see what im actually running at in comparison to what im setting in the BIOS, rather than put blind faith in the boards readings.

I have searched and searched but have not come up with anything.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Again, Great thread

Thanks.

[KaOSoFt]

Originally Posted by SgtSpike

Also, I read an article on this board, and for some reason the 1.8v is actually 2.08v, 1.9v = 2.12 or something, etc. 2.4v ends up at 2.38v if I remember correctly. So the memory voltages are slightly off on this board as well.

Wait just right there, sire... Do you mean I had my RAM modules running at 2.08v at default, and doing +0.2v has only been damaging them? I did that +0.2v since I thought the default voltage for RAM was 1.8v.

Originally Posted by EGOvoruhk

First, don't use automatic settings when overclocking. Find your stock settings and throw them in there, then start working on your overclock

Second, when overclocking, you should leave C1E off. Once you get stable, you can try to turn it back on if you so chose

Lastly, you were probably testing just small FTTs with Prime95, right? I'm willing to bet if you reverted your settings to whatever you had when you ran stable for 8 hours, and had it run in blend mode, that you would crash much sooner

Alright, I'm just running at stock now. I'll try what you say tomorrow, but I've already done it. As I said, I tried all kind of configurations, including the obvious ones after all the reading I've done.

If I do that blend test, you are expecting to be my RAM modules not working properly, right? I mean, I guess... when I installed them (before trying to overclock anything), I MemTest them, each module, and they were okay; eight hours each module. Perhaps they got damaged after doing +0.2v on them... we'll see.

Originally Posted by SgtSpike

The reason I had initially posted that F8 would fix the BIOS is that on another similar Gigabyte board (can't remember which one), the vdrop issue was fixed with BIOS F8, and I heard from someone else that the F8 BIOS for this board would also fix the same vdrop issue. Obviously, now F8 is out, and the vdrop issue still isn't fixed.

Oh, man, but I thought you were talking about the official F8 release. The only one released is the beta. Anyways, let's hope something good comes out from a new beta version, or perhaps a good person on VR-Zone tells us the way to vMod our boards...

Thank you everybody.

[SgtSpike]

Originally Posted by EllisD

Hey everyone

Great thread, i have been reading it since i decided to make the jump to intel and decided on this board for my budget system. Great bang for the buck i must say. I have found my way around it pretty well so far, seeing as i havent touched an intel system since....well....forever, lol.

One thing that bothers me though, are the voltage values. I dont like the whole + value system with them essentially keeping the defaults hidden. Coming from a DFI board, i was able to set actual voltage numbers and verify them at checkpoints around the motherboard with a Digital Multimeter. I then did the same with the PSU voltages and compensated MBM5 (motherboard monitor) values so i would get correct values in windows.

My question is whether or not anyone knows the points on the motherboard to check the various voltages so i can see what im actually running at in comparison to what im setting in the BIOS, rather than put blind faith in the boards readings.

I have searched and searched but have not come up with anything.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Again, Great thread

Thanks.

I don't know the points to check - you might email Gigabyte support, and see if they'd be willing to help out (though I kind of doubt it). If you do figure it out, do post your findings as far as how accurate the voltage readouts on this board are, I'd be very curious to see that!

Originally Posted by KaOSoFt

Wait just right there, sire... Do you mean I had my RAM modules running at 2.08v at default, and doing +0.2v has only been damaging them? I did that +0.2v since I thought the default voltage for RAM was 1.8v.

Oh, man, but I thought you were talking about the official F8 release. The only one released is the beta. Anyways, let's hope something good comes out from a new beta version, or perhaps a good person on VR-Zone tells us the way to vMod our boards...

Thank you everybody.

You shouldn't be damaging them... most memory will run just fine at 2.2v. It's 2.3v+ where you need to start worrying about damage...

And unfortunately, I doubt they'll add a major feature like voltage changes into a BIOS version that's already in beta. We can only hope they address the problem in a later version of the BIOS.

[KaOSoFt]

Originally Posted by SgtSpike

You shouldn't be damaging them... most memory will run just fine at 2.2v. It's 2.3v+ where you need to start worrying about damage...

So, I'm indeed running them at 2.2v if I set it to +0.2v in DDR2 voltage and it says 1.936v in BIOS?

[NP2H]

Originally Posted by KaOSoFt

So, I'm indeed running them at 2.2v if I set it to +0.2v in DDR2 voltage and it says 1.936v in BIOS?

I run budget g-skill thats rated for 1.8v. I've used +0.5v before (not 24/7, but for a good bit of time) and it didn't damage the sticks (and that's 4x1gb) so I wouldn't be overly concerned unless you see some sort of performance degredation.

[HauntSheep]

Liking the new first post on this thread =)

Foxconn do a very similar board to the DS3L with an addition of MOFSET cooling and crossfire



http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...d=5&subcat=913

Think it also is a contender?

Its more expensive than the DS3L though, just an observation =)

[shajbot]

I don't like the colors though, they don't match, I mean yellow, green, and violet...?