Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Thread

[Rpg2]

Originally Posted by Jarrstin

So I flashed to the new F8 final bios and now my system won't post. I've tried resetting the CMOS, putting a pin on Clear_CMOS, disconnecting all but the power supply, a stick of memory, and the CPU. Tried swapping PSU, CPU, and memory. When I have the VGA card connected I don't see anything on screen. If I try to start without any memory it does detect that there's no memory. The damn board doesn't have a bios recovery pin? What can I do, am I now out $100 plus?

You can try RMAing it back to Gigabyte for a replacement.

Originally Posted by reezin14

Does anyone know where I can find step-by-step illustration of the pencil mod for this board. +rep

Sig as well as the front page of this thread.

Pencil it in a few times over the top around the ceneter. Use a multimeter to check your ohms/omhs.

Get down to just .016v or .008v Vdroop. Having a tiny bit of Vdroop is a good thing.

[SD14]

hey i am trying to overclock on this board but i cant do it very much cause for some reason the ddr ram and the cpu fsb are linked does anyone know how to disable this on this motherboard or how to get around it, i am new to overclocking

[Gauvenator]

Originally Posted by SD14

hey i am trying to overclock on this board but i cant do it very much cause for some reason the ddr ram and the cpu fsb are linked does anyone know how to disable this on this motherboard or how to get around it, i am new to overclocking

You can't unlink on this mobo, you'll have to play with the ratios. It's pretty simple with this mobo tho: The memory multiplier x fsb = memory speed.

[Rpg2]

Originally Posted by SD14

hey i am trying to overclock on this board but i cant do it very much cause for some reason the ddr ram and the cpu fsb are linked does anyone know how to disable this on this motherboard or how to get around it, i am new to overclocking

The best you can do is drop the divider to 1:1. In this case, the (RAM) multiplier would be 2 in the BIOS options.

[Guide_Timothy]

Jarrstin
NM got it working.

Can you tell us how you got it working , so if someone has that problem flashing to F8 bios they can see what you did to get it to work thanks

[nod32]

I just updated to F8 from f8f and noticed a few differences. Its mainly in the menu, things are just moved around like M.I.T. is the first thing at the top now. Some of the other submenus are also moved around. Haven't noticed anything else for now.

And a word of caution to not flash with the newest @Bios version gigabyte supplies. It was giving me errors during the flash and after searching on google it seems many people are having the same problem with the newest version under vista. I flashed with an older version before restarting and it went fine. I know most people will probably say not to use it but I've always done it this way and I'm a little lazy

[Arbitr]

I have been running the board for about 2 months. When the computer came out of standby this morning, the LAN was dead. I have DLed the driver on the web page, but nothing. No status lights. The internet connection works fine when i switch to my laptop.

I don't see a think in hardware manager for network, and from a few posts in this thread, it does not seem completely impossible that it just died. This is annoying, is there any other things that may work, such as bios updates/ clearing CMOS?

I really would hate to RMA a board for this. cheapest newegg option in 17 w/ shipping for ethernet card

[tomheppy]

took external hdd out and it worked!absolutely insane

[Rpg2]

Originally Posted by Arbitr

I have been running the board for about 2 months. When the computer came out of standby this morning, the LAN was dead. I have DLed the driver on the web page, but nothing. No status lights. The internet connection works fine when i switch to my laptop.

I don't see a think in hardware manager for network, and from a few posts in this thread, it does not seem completely impossible that it just died. This is annoying, is there any other things that may work, such as bios updates/ clearing CMOS?

I really would hate to RMA a board for this. cheapest newegg option in 17 w/ shipping for ethernet card

Sounds like a hardware failure. It may be something else though, I'm not really sure. If you don't see anything in the hardware manager (gigabit lan) then it sounds like the LAN controller/port died.

Have you checked the BIOS? There was an option or two about the LAN on the mobo IIRC.

You could grab one of those network PCI cards or get a wireless USB connector. It's a wireless adapter that plugs into a USB slot.

[Arbitr]

Originally Posted by Rpg2

Sounds like a hardware failure. It may be something else though, I'm not really sure. If you don't see anything in the hardware manager (gigabit lan) then it sounds like the LAN controller/port died.

Have you checked the BIOS? There was an option or two about the LAN on the mobo IIRC.

You could grab one of those network PCI cards or get a wireless USB connector. It's a wireless adapter that plugs into a USB slot.

thanks..

I guess I will go this route. In BIOS, things like smart lan dont do anything, its just blank.

I contacted gigabyte, but dont expect to hear back until monday. I really doubt I will take everything out for an RMA, seems asinine for a 14 dollar fix. I still shouldn't have to. I just got this to stable overclock, and I don't want to risk another chipset behaving different (good results)