Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Thread

[angrysasquatch]

Originally Posted by xGeNeSisx

Have you tried resetting the cmos settings by removing the battery or with the jumpers ? If you can reset the settings, you might be able to build. I believe the problem is you did not lock the pci-e bus to 100mhz. If set to auto it will go very high. If this does not work, check out these motherboards:
GA-EP45-UD3P
ASUS P5Q Pro

Oh, forgot to mention, reset the cmos via jumpers twice, got nada.

So the reason the card is hot is that the PCI-e bus is very high? That makes me much happier than thinking it got more voltage than it should be.

Thanks for the reply!

[NP2H]

FYI, This board default locks at 100 when set to 'auto'.

[Pasta]

Originally Posted by NP2H

FYI, This board default locks at 100 when set to 'auto'.

however i believe it increases under stress, as robust graphics booster cannot be turned off completely.

[BigFan]

Just wanted to say this this is a great mobo. It might not have a crazy amount of oc features, but, it has enough to allow for some decent oc. I have a Q6600 @ 3Ghz 8h+ orthos stable with a very low voltage(can't remember) with 65C temps at load

[Pasta]

does anyone use AHCI on this board? if i enable it, it's set to multi-word dma mode 2 instead of 5 or 6.

[ve9jmc]

i have a question. has anyone had any memory problems with the GA-EP35-DS3P mobo's. i have one here and i think it went south on me. i had 2x 1 gig ram in it as well as 1x 2 gig for 4 gig of memory. now the board kept rebooting on me in games and at first i thought it was the video card, but when i finally set the system to give me an error code in the BSOD it pointed to my memory. now i tested all of the sticks in their slots and it said all my memorey was bad every stick. then i proceeded to test them all individually in all of the slots and everything still came back as bad. i then went out and purchased a new stick of 2 gig of ram. i installed that into the board and tested and low and behold it came back as reading bad. i said there's no way i can have 5 sticks of bad memory so i proceeded to install a different mobo and tested all of my memory in that board and it says all of my memory is good. i'm wondering if anyone has had any problems with this board in that area or if it is just mine? by the way the utility i was using to test my memory was Memtest86.

[crazyfurie]

I have a samiler mobo and i had the same problems, I just bought new ram and it worked

I bought OCZ gold addition.worked fine ever since


BTW, anyone have any info for me about the Xpres recovery 2 that gigabyte has for its mobo? is it like a regular recovery? or does it just back up ****? because i have a virus and i need to do a recovery and i dont have my disk lol

[wiggy2k7]

Originally Posted by ve9jmc

i have a question. has anyone had any memory problems with the GA-EP35-DS3P mobo's. i have one here and i think it went south on me. i had 2x 1 gig ram in it as well as 1x 2 gig for 4 gig of memory. now the board kept rebooting on me in games and at first i thought it was the video card, but when i finally set the system to give me an error code in the BSOD it pointed to my memory. now i tested all of the sticks in their slots and it said all my memorey was bad every stick. then i proceeded to test them all individually in all of the slots and everything still came back as bad. i then went out and purchased a new stick of 2 gig of ram. i installed that into the board and tested and low and behold it came back as reading bad. i said there's no way i can have 5 sticks of bad memory so i proceeded to install a different mobo and tested all of my memory in that board and it says all of my memory is good. i'm wondering if anyone has had any problems with this board in that area or if it is just mine? by the way the utility i was using to test my memory was Memtest86.

What voltage did you set for your ram ???

[ve9jmc]

all memory and cpu voltages were set to stock.

[OTHG_ChefTreb]

I have this board and had problems when I first built this rig. One of the first things I did in the BIOS was to set the memory voltages to the crucial rated 2.2v for the ram I have. I kept getting BSOD's an errors pointing to the memory so I set it to stock voltages and all is good. I always wondered why its rnning better at these settings than the voltage setting recommended at Crucial.