Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L mobo bios

[pontifex]

anyone have this board and using this bios? apparently it's a beta bios and is the one that their @bios program uses. You'd think they'd use the latest non-beta one.

Anyway, if you do use it, are you having any problems? I flashed to it last night and after I did, my PC just kept rebooting itself shortly after logging into Windows XP.

Took all my bios settings to default and it still did it.

Flashed back to the original bios (F6) and it seems ok. I'm going to try F7 (latest no-beta version) tonight and see what happens.

 

[will889]

Are you kidding? You mean Gigabyte will actually allow the @bios app to download a beta bios to consumers? If so that's a VERY questionable thing for Gigabyte to do IMO. I would shoot Gigabyte an email about why they did that in the fist place (using consumers as beta testers maybe?)

That said, you might try hard-clearing CMOS after the flash as sometimes a bios change with many legacy changes will require a CMOS clear (on the board not with software) to start working properly.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: will889
Are you kidding? You mean Gigabyte will actually allow the @bios app to download a beta bios to consumers? If so that's a VERY questionable thing for Gigabyte to do IMO. I would shoot Gigabyte an email about why they did that in the fist place (using consumers as beta testers maybe?)

That said, you might try hard-clearing CMOS after the flash as sometimes a bios change with many legacy changes will require a CMOS clear (on the board not with software) to start working properly.

If you manually download the F8A version from their website, it shows as a beta and the file name says beta in it.

I guess it's possible that it's no longer beta and they forgot to change the manual download info, but it seems a bit unlikely to me.

 

[rizorith]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: will889
Are you kidding? You mean Gigabyte will actually allow the @bios app to download a beta bios to consumers? If so that's a VERY questionable thing for Gigabyte to do IMO. I would shoot Gigabyte an email about why they did that in the fist place (using consumers as beta testers maybe?)

That said, you might try hard-clearing CMOS after the flash as sometimes a bios change with many legacy changes will require a CMOS clear (on the board not with software) to start working properly.

If you manually download the F8A version from their website, it shows as a beta and the file name says beta in it.

I guess it's possible that it's no longer beta and they forgot to change the manual download info, but it seems a bit unlikely to me.

I just downloaded the "beta" last night and so far it's stable. A lot of bios releases are beta and many people stay with them. I think they tend to be a lot more stable than most beta versions of software since they're so important to the function of a computer.

 

[pontifex]

my system does not like the F7 bios either. keeps blue screening on me.

any ideas?

now there's an F8B bios. I'll try that and see what happens.

 

[pontifex]

seems to be running ok on the F8b bios...
although every now and then i get a nv4_disp.dll error.

 

[andrei3333]

I have been running F8a beta Bios for over a month now or almost since it came out with NO ISSUES what so ever, the PC IS lighting fast and my games a excellent, my XFX 7800GT OC is pushed to the max and i still can play at 1280x1024 with 95% max grafix

i also used @bios program to upgrade.... this is my second ds3l though, my first one i fcuked up by changing osme voltage setting the wrong way and it kept rebooting without letting me into bios at all, i got a free warranty replacement and this one is fine -- i tried removing the battery and shorting the cmos pins to no effect

 

[TheJian]

Originally posted by: pontifex
seems to be running ok on the F8b bios...
although every now and then i get a nv4_disp.dll error.

That's a video driver error. Are you running the latest version from nvidia's site? This happens to me sometimes when I get a persons machine that is running really old drivers on a new card. They'll upgrade a card not realizing you have to do a bit more than that. Rebooting sounds vid related also knowing you get that error. Once the driver kicks in at the logon screen boom...blown out.

NEVER use any quickflash/@bios (in this companies case...Whatever any internet bios updaters are called in other motherboard cases). ALWAYS do it manually. Google internet bios flash and you'll likely turn up BOATLOADS of people with board problems after that. Create an MSDOS boot disc and download the bios to your HD (or burn a cd). I use the floppy but I wouldn't load a bios file from floppy without having OTHER machines to access help/new bios files etc. Floppy is also easier because I don't have to worry about not seeing NTFS after booting from floppy. I have one floppy for MSDOS disk and another for bios file.

I've sold a lot of that model with F7.

Is this a new board? Give us some machine specs and whats new info. New vid? etc. WE need more than a bios rev/board model to help out...We're throwing darts at a board here Is this a board switch on an OLD OS install? etc...more please.

 

[superstition]

It's ridiculous that the bios is still in beta. It's been months.

 

[andrei3333]

why not use @bios prog ? worked for me

overkill on the old school tech there, dont need floppies ne more

and yes that is ridiculous tha tthis popular mobo still has a beta bios as its latest release twice now since january