Ga-965P-DS3 Updates

[screwballl]

wow very nice... it should be stable and good to go once I buy one in the next month or two

[jph1589]

Last night while testing different memory multipliers, I had the FSB at 900 and was doing some testing. I put the memory on 2.5 which I believe is a 4:5 ratio. I saved out of the bios and it turned off like a bad overclock. It turned back on and off about 6 times, each time saying it was recovering the bios. It would stay on about 5 seconds and then turn off again. Then it just turned off.

When i turned it on, the bios was gone. No combination of clear cmos, removing battery, booting with only one memory stick and video, clearing cmos again, removing battery again, shorting the battery connections, Nothing worked.

It won't post ...........nothing on the screen...........and it wont flash from a diskette except through qflash and you can't get to that without posting.

So it is back in the box and there will probably never be another GB board in my machine. I have my trusty C19-A SLI back in with all the same components and it is perfect. So it wasn't my components that did this. THE SECOND TIME BY THE WAY!!!

Buy someone elses board.

[gvblake22]

Originally Posted by Mithosphere

holy crap that is fast

That's what I was thinking!!!

Sorry to hear you've been disappointed with the DS3 :(
Seems like it was a great overclocking board, but you just managed to have problems with every single issue that ever existed with that board.

[jph1589]

Originally Posted by gvblake22

That's what I was thinking!!!

Sorry to hear you've been disappointed with the DS3 :(
Seems like it was a great overclocking board, but you just managed to have problems with every single issue that ever existed with that board.

I think honestly they have serious issues on the board if you aren't running a C2D. I know people all over the place that used that memory ratio with no problems. The guys at anadtech relayed some info about GB working on some PD issues but it would be nice to have known that something like this could happen Twice.

Anyway, I'm done with changing hardware for a while. I can't handle the late nights like I used to.

Funny thing, I've got two of the cheapest boards you can buy in 2 out of 3 of our computers and they give me less trouble than anything else. Go figure!