Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Thread

[Gauvenator]

Originally Posted by Skydawg

Has anyone found a solution to having to unplug external usb devices to get the board to boot?

Thanks,
John

Mine will boot fine with a usb device. I've even booted off of usb devices.

Originally Posted by jaz

Is there a way to tell what bios i have? My board is still sitting on the bench, waiting to be installed. I don't want to install the board only to find it won't play nice with the e8400 like i read some people have had to use older intel cpu's to get system up and running to get bios update for e8400.

No input about mosfets cooling? Nobody is having problems with these overheating like i read on so many other mobo's?

CPU-Z will tell you the bios revision.

[Csquared]

if you got a rev 2.0 board you wont need to touch the bios to get a 45nm chip running

[jaz]

My board is a revision 1.0. I read most of the reviews on newegg about the boards good and bad points. I too, had to hammer the cpu holder to get it straight, cuz it was bent, and was putting way to much pressure on the chip.

Some people say their boards ran just fine with the bios that came with it, others said they had to flash bios with an older intel chip to get the board to reckognize the cpu. My hs bracket is the last thing I'm waiting for and it's due today. So i have to write down all my programs si i can remember what to re-install, save my saved games from far cry, blah blah blah...God, i hope everything works ok...lol.

Still nobody has issues with mosfet cooling? I found some really nice small copper mosfet hs's and one person said they decreased the temps by about 5c. I don't know if that's worth putting something on there as i have 4 120mm fans on side panel blowing in motherboard. Plus the top and rear exaust fans pull air directly over them, so i would think that would help.
thanks for the replies.

[Csquared]

my mofsets are fine right now because of the airflow in the cm690, but when i transfer over to my rocketfish i definitely will stick some ramsinks on the mofsets because of the lack of airflow in a wc'd case.

[jaz]

Csquared, did you have to straighten out your cpu bracket like i and a few others from newegg reviews said? Some didn't say what revision mobo they had. Good to know the mosfets stay pretty cool even oc'ed as much as you are. I plan on oc'ing my new vcard also. Thanks for the info.

[Csquared]

no i did not, mine came perfectly straight with my rev 2.0 board

[jaz]

Csquared, here is where i saw the mosfets hs's. Lotsa other goodies for cheap too. thanks for your help.

[jcharlesr75]

Got a good one here. Has anyone had problems with their cd-roms not being bootable? This is a recent thing for me as i went to change my linux distro and it wont boot from the cd at all. I tried a known good windows cd, my cd is the first boot device and the drive itself works fine(just watched a dvd on it last night). The only thing i can think of is some kind of bios issue. Im sure it could be the drive, but i have never had one fail that way before.

[mattlyall06]

hi all. im having issues OCing my new E8400 E0. im glad i found this thread.

a few of my threads for reference:
http://www.overclock.net/intel-cpus/...0-e0-4ghz.html
and
http://www.overclock.net/intel-cpus/...-e8400-e0.html

i think im being limited by my memory, but im not sure. its gskill ddr2 800. i want to be stable at 445x9 or 500x8, whatever is best for 4ghz. i can get into windows no problem, but prime/orthos/occt fail after a few mins. i took it to 3.6ghz (400x9) right away without changing any voltages. (besides the usual) and it was 2 hours orthos stable. but anything up from there, i havent found the right settings to keep it stable.

[Shadowrunner340]

does anyone know how to set the link width on the pci-e bus on these boards?