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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: olapaulakoski on August 27, 2010, 11:02:38 pm
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Seem to have flashed a rev 1.0 bios into this new board of mine. Everything seems to be working, lucky i didnt brick it. Mine is a 1.1 revision.
Cant seem to find the right latest bios for rev 1.1, anyone know where they are or are the boards that similar pcb that it doesnt matter?
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Firstly are you sure that it is a revision 1.1 board because this is a new one on me and I have just checked on the website and there is no mention of this update.
Obviously the BIOS update was the same anyway otherwise you would have bricked it :o Most BIOSes wont let you run the wrong update. It checks the BIOS checksum first and if it doesn't match then it won't go ahead. At least that's the theory ;)
What version were you running before the update?
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There was bios version F5 on the board when i got it today. Its a fresh board got it in the mail today, finally threw out that horrbile Asus i had before. :)
Yes it is a rev 1.1 board, says so on the board and on the box. Probably very new then. Everything seems to be working, cpu z shows that it has sb 700 when its actually 750 but both revision seems to match on the specifications.
Strange though that there is no page at all for rev 1.1, but because everything is working im probably fine i hope.:)
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It maybe that in Sweden you have as newer revision of the board at retailers than we do here in the uk. I will have to check some of the other websites. Did you look on the far east website and Tweaktown(the US) site for the update?
http://forums.tweaktown.com/
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Thanks. Will have a look there, i checked different regions on gigabyte website have not found it yet. Maybe it will show up later, so far everything is stable and i have also written to gigabyte support where the page for my board is.
Good thing is that some issues i had this morning when i installed the board have fixed themselves, had some problems with ahci dvd driver not being detected properly. The bios flash fixed it. So i guess it is compatible because everything is working better.:)
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I have just been searching for your board and even the Taiwan site doesn't have it listed. ??? ???
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Maybe it is only called rev 1.1 because i bought in sweden. Cant find anything different feature och spec wise with the rev 1.0.
Hopefully i get some answers from gigabyte support.:)
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Didn't you say it was marked on the board as well as the box? If so all boards are made in Taiwan so they would be available everywhere in a close period of time.
What was the BIOS update that you flashed it to?
Also can you list your hardware that you have attached it to please?
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I flashed the F7A bios.
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Was that for compatibility with the processor?
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I have amd 965 c3, on the website its compatible. I think the newest bios releases fixed an ahci issue and also upgraded for the new 6 cores.
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Yes that's what I wondered. You do understand that it is a Beta version and not fully tested yet as far as I know. By the time they are released on the website they are usually fairly stable.
You haven't listed the rest of your hardware yet? In particular what memory are you using?
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I got 4 sticks "matched pairs" 8gb corsair xms 2 800 ddr 2 ram. Msi hawk 5770, Corsair tx650 power supply, wd 320 gb blue caviar 32 mb and a samsung 1tb spinpoint harddrive and a sony dvd.:)
So far no issues. I work as a editor, so ive tested premiere pro rendered a big project for an hour making the ram and cpu max out and it was stable. Ive played some starcraft 2 and avp and no issues.
I also know the rest of the hardware is stable. Ran memtest on the ram before and prime the cpu.:)
/ola
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The exakt name of the memory is TWINX2X4096-6400C5C They are two kits that are matched 4gb each.
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Hi there,
I have come across this problem/issue before and if I remember correctly the response given at that time was along the lines of: The differences between the Rev1.0 & Rev 1.1 versions of the motherboard are so slight that the same BIOS is used for both boards. Gigabyte could well have modified the layout or something along those lines whilst leaving the base components alone. The fact that the F7A BIOS has taken indicates to me that this is the case here and as Dark Mantis said earlier, it is very difficult to flash with the wrong BIOS because of the Checksum.
If everything is working OK I don't think you have too much to worry about.
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No I agree there shouldn't be any problem now. I was just concerned that you might be running your memory at a speed that would damage your memory controllers as per absic's investigation into the matter.
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Before the bios update the dvd drive kept restarting while in windows, like it was hotplugging itself or something.:)
That stopped as soon as i upgraded the bios. So i guess im safe, it seems more stable actually and boots faster. Scary though of damaging a ram controller, thats hard to find out when you have that many ram. It seems okay though because ive been rendering stuff i Adobe premiere an issue with ram would usually presents itself very quickly and visually broken video files etc.:)
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Yes I wouldn't envisage any problems from what we have been able to discover. Who knows what the problem was with the DVD drive origianlly, it could have been numerous things but at least it is cured now.
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I was just concerned that you might be running your memory at a speed that would damage your memory controllers as per absic's investigation into the matter.
Just to put yours, or any other users mind at ease on this issue.
From what you said earlier in the thread, you are running 8 Gig of DDR2 800 Mhz Ram That should not cause any problems with the memory controllers as you are well within specs. Any possible problems only tend to occur if you are using this much RAM above 1333Mhz.
Hope this clarifies the situation.
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My fault absic, maybe I didn't make it clear enough. I was just concerned at the start but after the OP posting the specs didn't worry any more.
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Thanks for all the support guys. Everything is still very stable, this must be the best most stable motherboard ive owned for years! So the bios flash did only good things for me.
I wrote to Gigabyte support about the board, they seem to not know this revision even exists.
Either way as long as it is this stable and working im happy. :)
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Strange that Gigabyte don't know of this revision number! Maybe it was a misprint on the board but it does seem odd. Can you post a picture of the revision number printed on the mobo?
Still, if everything's fine that's a good result but it makes future BIOS updates a little bit of a concern.
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Does it say if the board was made in Taipei or Brazil?
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Maybe the revision is very new and will show up sometime later on their website.:)
Hopefully i get another answer from support when they done an investigation of this.
Here are some pictures from the board and the box.
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From the back of the box Taipei, Taiwan.
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Well, that's clear enough isn't it?
Hopefully Gigabyte Technical Support will catch up with their own Mobo's!! ::)
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Hi there,
I have come across this problem/issue before and if I remember correctly the response given at that time was along the lines of: The differences between the Rev1.0 & Rev 1.1 versions of the motherboard are so slight that the same BIOS is used for both boards.(...)
Yes, the correct bios has been flashed in.
(...) You do understand that it is a Beta version and not fully tested yet as far as I know. By the time they are released on the website they are usually fairly stable. (...)
Correct, beta bios from our website is stable & reliable.
Does it say if the board was made in Taipei or Brazil?
:o Brazil? Our factories are in Taiwan and China only.
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My mistake runn3R I understood Gigabyte had a factory in Brazil(or is that just the Black Ops that we don't talk about 8)).