Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 Has Failed DDR18V

[Genison]

Well, I've finally got my new system up and running. I haven't tried any overclocking yet but everything seems to be running great. The only thing is in the BIOS on the PC Health Status screen, I get a red "Failed" on the DDR18V. No problems at all as far as I can tell, so I don't know what's up with that.

Looking up some info on Google, it appears this is due to a non-spec voltage setting for my memory but it's on default auto settings right now and these are crucial Ballistix PC8500's

 

[FSH42NA]

yup, mine said the same when I was running a E6600 with Gskill DDR at 2.0v. I guess because it's non-standard (i.e. 1.8v), the bios flags it. Apparently, Gigabyte wants to protect us from ourselves. Despite this flag, I didn't come across any problems.

 

[Ozoneman]

Yes, I heard the same thing. It's because most of us have to raise the memory voltage for our memory. It is just a warning and doesn't affect anything.

 

[Genison]

So, did you guys raise the voltage to what was required manually? I've left mine as is and it's been fine. I can't really tell where it's putting the memory voltage at currently.

 

[Ozoneman]

Originally posted by: Genison
So, did you guys raise the voltage to what was required manually? I've left mine as is and it's been fine. I can't really tell where it's putting the memory voltage at currently.

Yes, I raised the memory voltage manually. I have Crucial Ballistix PC6400 and they suggest it run at 2.2 volts.

 

[naughtymonkeyboy]

The BIOS recognized my RAM and set the voltage to 2.2V automatically, but I also have the Failed DDR18V message. I'm using 2 sticks of Corsair Dominator PC2 8500, which is supposed to run with 2.2V. Is anyone else thinking of raising the voltage more to see if that alleviates the 'error'?

 

[naughtymonkeyboy]

I just read something that made a light go on for me...

'DDR is RAM, and 18V means 1.8volts, the default voltage of ram...'

So, in the BIOS PC Health section DDR18V we see Fail because we're running at 2.2V, not the '1.8volts, the default voltage of ram...'

 

[gitanes]

how's the board so far for you guys, I've ordered one alongside a q6600 and 4gigs of ram

 

[TheBeagle]

Good Evening Everyone.

Since I couldn't get my Q6600 (G0) to work worth a damn in my Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 board, I built a new PC for my office, and stuck the Q6600 in that rig. I used a Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 board for the new rig, with assorted hard drives, optical drives, 4x1GB Ballistix 1066 memory, a Zalman 9700, 8800GTS, and Vista 64 Ultimate. After installing the OS and all the programs at stock speed for the proc, and using the F5L BIOS (the F5 Final BIOS is now released for this board, and it works great!), I started to tweak the proc a bit. It turns out that the Q6600 will run at 361 FSB x 9 = 3.25GHz @ 1.350V; and the memory set at a ratio of 3.20:1 = 1155, 5-5-5-15 @ +.45V (total 2.25V). This thing really rips along, and at least so far, no BSOD, lockups, etc. I was quite surprised that the memory would run at 577 x 2, @5-5-5-15.

So for those who might be getting a bit tired of NV's empty promises for the N680i boards, there seems to be a very good alternative use for those Q6600 procs. I'll keep you posted on how well this new rig runs as time goes on. But for right now, getting a 3.25GHz OC out of a 2.4GHz Quad-Core proc is quite acceptable, especially on air cooling. I noticed that more voltage than 1.350V is a bootup killer for this G0 stepping proc, and CPU-Z reports that it only uses 1.326V, at most. You should just ignore the red "Failed" message in the CMOS Setup with regard to the DDR2 item. That notice is simply telling you that you don't have 1.8V memory sticks in the board. Best regards. TheBeagle :beer: