cjthom Posted June 29, 2003 Share Posted June 29, 2003 Does any one know how near Gigabyte are to bringing out the official Ver.7.0 BIOS? My PC is still doing some strange things with the Beta version. The PC regularly drops out of my childrens CDROM games and returns to Desktop but I am not sure whether this is BIOS, RAM or something else. Regards Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 [QUOTE]Does any one know how near Gigabyte are to bringing out the official Ver.7.0 BIOS?[/QUOTE] I must pose the same question. I contacted US tech support, went through that Taiwan tech support form and also contacted Taiwan sales, so far none bothered to reply :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 Taiwan tech support just answered and pointed me to the [URL=http://gts.gigabyte.com.tw/DownloadFile/20171/8ik1100_f7c.exe]f7c beta bios[/URL]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjthom Posted July 11, 2003 Share Posted July 11, 2003 DO NOT USE THIS BIOS It has totally killed my PC! Luckily I had F6 on a Floppy and then ran the Q Flash utility to restore the BIOS and get the PC to start. If anyone has got this BIOS to work then I apologise to Andy and others but something is not quite right Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjthom Posted July 11, 2003 Share Posted July 11, 2003 I have had a chance to calm down now. There is no worse a feeling when you watch a new BIOS upload and then watch the PC restart and restart and restart.... After installing F6 again the PC would boot OK but I had to slow the timings as before. Windows XP booted and warned me that it had recovered from a serious problem and pointed me towrds a web page that informed me that there had been a RAM (corruption) problem and advised me to download Windows RAM Diagnosis. I reinstalled the Beta b revision (not c) and then ran the RAM diagnostics and the corsair RAM passed all of the tests. As I said before there is something amiss with rev c. I just hope there are not loads of people out there now with dead PC's. Andy Does your PC run OK on c revision? if so what RAM are you running and at what timings? Sorry if I gave the impression that I was pointing a finger at you, it was a sudden reaction after seeing my PC stop working, followed by panic. I blame Gigabyte at the end of the day for not developing the BIOS before putting a new product on the market and then worst of all leaving their customers to sort out their own problems. I have e-mailed them 3 times now and have never had a reply...disgusting. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted July 11, 2003 Share Posted July 11, 2003 I have two 512 XMS3500 sticks running in dual channel at 333 (2-2-2 6) right now, together with a 2.4B that I plan on swapping for a 2.4C next week. The F7C bios hasn't screwed my PC, everything seems to be fine for the moment and will do further testing at 400 when I get the new CPU. I received this beta bios only after contacting Taiwan sales, prior to that having mailed US tech support and went through Taiwan tech support's form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjthom Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 Atseng Hi I have just got around to transfering my Cable MODEM to the 81K100 LAN connection and it works fine. I am not sure if you have fixed your problem but I did the following. Run cmd type ipconfig/all This identified the MAC address which is identified under Physical Address. I then went onto my cable companies Web page and went onto the MAC Admin page which was found by going into the "self Help" page. Here I was able to register the Gigabyte MAC address. This then allowed me to use either IP address. I went into system management to ensure that the Gigabyte LAN was enabled. Finally I went back into RUN, cmd and entered ipconfig/release and this cleared the current address. I then powered off and waited a couple of minutes before transferring the LAN connection from the Ethernet card to the Gigabyte LAN connection. I powered up the cable MODEM and waited for all of the LED's to illuminate and then powered up the PC. Once I was in DESKTOP I opened up my browser and Hey presto! I had a connection to the Internet. Forgive me if you know this procedure but I thought it may help you to get your connection working and in the process, free up a PCI slot. Regards Chris Thompson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted July 13, 2003 Corsair Employee Share Posted July 13, 2003 Andy When you go to a 800 FSB CPU I would suggest that you relax the timings a bit to Cass 2-3-2-6 with the Rass to Cass set to "3" but you should be fine. Ram Guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjthom Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 Welcome back RAM GUY, where you been? Is this why my PC would not start with BETA rev.f7c? I seem to remember that the Rass to Cass default was 2. My PC just kept restarting over and over again. I have gone back to f7b. It's about time Gigabyte got this sorted. How are other manufacturers fairing with your hi speed matched devices? Regards Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piddyful Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 You should be able to run you ram at CAS 2, 3, 2, 5. It is what I run mine at with the F7b BIOS 24/7 with no stability problems. Can not get it to 2, 2, 2, 5 though. Won't even boot. I'm going to try the F7c BIOS to see what's up with that one. I'll keep the backup the F7b BIOS for a recovery if needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjthom Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 I am currently running rev.b BIOS with timings of 2-3-2-6. This runs OK. Regards Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piddyful Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 F7c beta works great. My bandwidth went up over 5gb at stock timings (CAS 2, 3, 2, 5) and 300 more points PCMark memory score. Even booted at 2, 2, 2, 5 but unstable in benches. No problems encountered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoiNk Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 I was just about to buy this combination, ie. GA-8IK1100 and TWINX512-3200LL, but after reading this thread I'm now not so sure. Should I look at another motherboard/RAM combination? or does the new BIOS seem to be solving the problems? Does the memory run as fast as it is supposed to on this board? Cheers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjthom Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 Hi Piddyful, It's interesting to see that you are using 3500 RAM that I believe has been fully tested with the the new 875 chipset. I am using 3200LL Twin X 512 RAM and I am beginning to think that I chose the wrong RAM and should have waited longer than I did and bought the 3500 instead for my 2.8C. My PC will get to the windows screen but as it nearly gets to the desktop users screen the PC restarts. I have not tried to reload f7c at reduced timings as I am concerned it may still cause the same problem. I dont really want to keep flashing the BIOS too often for fear of premature failure. Regards Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piddyful Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 I think I've read somewhere that the ram you have doesn't even have a CAS 2.5 setting, is this true? That would definetly narrow your options for getting a stable running system. When I ran the stock BIOS, I had to run mine at CAS 2.5 for some time when I first got my this motherboard. I've been able to run CAS 2 since the first beta BIOS though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjthom Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 No it does not have a CAS 2.5 setting, only 2. I am not too happy at the moment as support from Gigabyte is non existant. I could have purchased much cheaper RAM and probably got similar results. If the problems are not sorted out soon I am taking the RAM back as not being fit for the purpose. When one pays £117 for a motherboard and £133 for the RAM one expects it to perform flawlessly. It's becoming more and more common for manufacturers to launch products with insufficient R&D and just let the public find the problems and then try to resolve the problems afterwards! Regards Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piddyful Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 You can't even run it at 2, 3, 3, 7 with the 2.0 ratio using any of the beta BIOS's? If that's the case, I would consider returning that ram for at least the XMS 3500. You will get better results I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjthom Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 Ram Guy is keeping very quiet at the moment, please give me your expert opinion please? Regards Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by RAM GUY [/i] [B]Andy When you go to a 800 FSB CPU I would suggest that you relax the timings a bit to Cass 2-3-2-6 with the Rass to Cass set to "3" but you should be fine. Ram Guy [/B][/QUOTE] I just got the 2.4C as of a couple of hours ago. You're right, at 400 MHz 2-2-2 6 it doesn't pass memtest x86. In 2-3-2 6 it seems ok and WOW ! around 4800 in Sandra compared to 3400 with the B and memory at 333. I didn't reinstall the OS yet, it just detected the CPU installed the drivers and rebooted. I'll play some games tonight and probably reinstall the OS tomorrow. For the moment everything seems to run fine (knocks on wood :D ). P.S: using the F7C bios Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjthom Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 With the timings ar 2-3-2-6 my RAM is running at 4516 Mbits per sec. using Sandra and F7b BIOS. Regards Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 So that there won't be any confusion, I was talking about the CPU, 2.4[b]B[/b] and memory at 333MHz (2-2-2 6) getting ~3400. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ritchierich Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 I'm using the F7c bios with my 3.0GHz rig. Memory timings 2,2,2,5 with top preformance enabled. Had the set memory voltage to +0.02 volts to get it to run stable. :woah!: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjthom Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 Some of you guys should read this as I think the 1100 MB should give similar results. I have not tried it. [[url]http://www.8ballshardware.com/articles/Twinx512/page3.cfm[/url]] Regards Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8balls Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 Check what version of the TwinX512-3200LL you're running. If its v1.2, it can't run at 2-2-2-6, but only at 2-3-2-6 The v1.2 uses the Winbond rev-C chips, which cant run 2-2-2-6. Corsair cant help that as production on the older version running 2-2-2-6 has stopped and stocks are low, if not gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjthom Posted July 21, 2003 Share Posted July 21, 2003 Despite only buying my RAM on the 18th May, the revision of the RAM is 1.1 and is marked 2-2-2-6. Why did Corsair stop production of this version? Would I be advised to return it or cherish it? Regards Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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