E8400 on 965P-S3?

[Vortex22]

The latest available bios for my Gigabyte 965P-S3 (not DS3) says it enables unofficial support for 45nm cpus. Does anyone have experience trying to run a E8400 or E3110 with this board? I want to upgrade from my 6300, but only if I can flash the bios and drop the new chip in. I don't want to order the chip and find out that it won't boot in my system, so I really need to know hear from someone who has tried with this exact board before I buy anything. Thanks for the help!

 

[spawny]

I've lurked here for a long while and just now joined so I could answer up...

I have the same board (rev 1.0, not 3.3) and I've been running a 6300 oc'd to almost 3.2Ghz. I broke down and got an 8400 (reading on other forums that this would work). Updated bios to latest (f13i, I believe), reset to optimized defaults then dropped the chip in. Nothing. No post or beep codes, only a black screen.

I tried setting the bus speed to 333 while the 6300 was still in, then swapping chips, that didn't work either. Long story short, the problem (on mine, anyway) was that I was killing the power via the power supply (out of habit, like grounding yourself and all that)

The last time I tried (and the one that worked), I reset the bios to optimized defaults, saved, powered down. Without turning the power supply off completely I swapped chips, and it fired right up. Everything works through restarts and shutdowns, but if I kill the power to the PS it won't boot again.

Could be a problem with the rev 1.0 boards, not sure, but I tried this with 2 boards, both of which work fine with other chips (6300 and 6400).

 

[Vortex22]

So you're saying as long as the PSU is still plugged in and the board is getting power (but is still "off" obviously), I should be able to switch to an 8400? That sounds encouraging, but as it stands right now I don't want to have to swap out the CPU just to boot every time it loses power. Thank you for the info.

 

[htne]

Originally posted by: Vortex22
So you're saying as long as the PSU is still plugged in and the board is getting power (but is still "off" obviously), I should be able to switch to an 8400? That sounds encouraging, but as it stands right now I don't want to have to swap out the CPU just to boot every time it loses power. Thank you for the info.

Yeah, really! I think this would be enough to prod anyone into buying a new motherboard.

 

[Tempered81]

for 1.0, try these with wolfdales

http://tw.giga-byte.com/Suppor...el.aspx?ProductID=2457

 

[Vortex22]

Originally posted by: jaredpace
for 1.0, try these with wolfdales

http://tw.giga-byte.com/Suppor...el.aspx?ProductID=2457

Huh? I should flash the bios of my 1.0 with a version from the rev 3.3 board? I don't know if I'm brave enough to do that.

 

[spawny]

I'm interested in that too, flashing the 1.0 with the 3.3 bios. Everything is working fine on mine, I've even had it clocked up to 4.14Ghz (460x9).

I agree with everyone else, it's not worth it if I have to swap chips if/when I lose power to the board... But this was more of a test to see if it would work than anything.

 

[Tempered81]

it's the same bios
http://tw.giga-byte.com/Suppor...el.aspx?ProductID=2321

f13i from jan 24th.

 

[Vortex22]

Originally posted by: jaredpace
it's the same bios
http://tw.giga-byte.com/Suppor...el.aspx?ProductID=2321

f13i from jan 24th.

Oh, ok. This has already been tested I believe and the rev 1.0 board will not boot with the latest beta bios and a penryn unless you do the processor swap trick.