New GA-MA69G-S3H BIOS F5 up!
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Sup...el.aspx?ProductID=2554
edit: everything fine so far, although system didnt boot up after flashing (reset to defaults before flashing too), CMOS clear did the job.
Phenom support, support für 1TB HDDs, dont see any other changes,
When a BSOD occurs, Windows shuts down the HDD to prevent further data loss or HDD damage. That might be the clicking and the BSOD might not be rlated to the HDD at all.
Well thats a really good looking board. Even the box looks great. I dont like fancy colors :)
And Intel enthusiast boards are always great performers as well.
Too bad im not going for an update the next two years :)
I really hope ATIs 3870 will be quite a performer too, two of them...
Under Vista32 and other 32bit OS there can only be used a maximum of 3GB to 3.5GB Ram depending on the installed hardware.
Under Vista64 (dont know about XP64) especially the graphics adapter and southbridge couldnt address anything beyong that 32bit barrier resulting in instability and...
It is still a chipset issue, because all ASUS 690G boards have the same probs. Its more like a BIOS workaround. Nonetheless, at least for Gigabyte and 4GB it works now.
Nope, 3h of Neverwinter Nights 2 without problems. System isrunning fine now.
The 8GB problems might also be memory controller related I guess. Is Memtest fine with 8GB?
edit: System still absolutely stable, over 8h now, lots of gaming :P
Gigabytes F4 (S3h) and F3 (S2H) BIOS seem to solve the &4bit issue, at least my S3H is working fine now with 4GB RAM. But the BIOS seems to change quite some things, I had to reactivate Vista...
ASUS Boards have the same problems, also both Gigabyte Boards.
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=260014
Runs perfectly fine with MSconfig hack. Without Catalyst drivers installed also 8h Prime95 stable, because then the graphics adapter wont use the address space.
With onboard...
Today I got a gigabyte reply, they only say that the board is damaged and I should RMA it. They just completely ignore the fact that Memtest x86 runs completely stable for hours and the MSconfig hack just removes every problem and the system is 100% stable.
And its really very unlikely that...
MSconfig hack is simple: Start MSconfig - Start - Advanced - set "Maximum Ram" to 4096 (I dont know exact descriptions in english bacuase my vista is german) :)
So with every Windowsstart there will be only used 4GB - address space for video adapter etc, which makes in my case 3325MB Ram with...
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