Gigabyte ga-ep45-ud3P motherboard

Things are only getting better as I learn more about this board. Been Prime95 for almost 5 hours at 500 x 9 @ 4.5, I like it.......... a lot.
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=616822

I have just bought one of these and installed it, everything works fine except for one annoyance.

When i power up the pc or hit restart by internal mobo speaker makes a click sound as power hits the board on both cold boot and restart, so what happens is i hit the power button and i hear *tick* then normal *beep* then all is as normal, same when i hit reset *tick* then *beep* as normal, does anyone here get the *tick* from the internal speaker at these times or is my board wak? oh yeah i forgot to mention it makes the single *click* as i power down too, and yes it's definately the internal speaker as i have this rig setup on top of the mobo box with the speaker attached to the headers on the mobo. Also those little row of lights next to the cpu socket al lightup at the times this *tick* sound is evident, thought i'd mention that as well.

If i could get some feedback on this that would be great, cheers

Never had it myself but a guy here has this that noise/sound is really horrible

HOLY CRAP...

I just removed the blue plates from the NB/MOSF heatsink. That gunk was a BITCH to remove. I might get another one of these boards so does anyone have any tips on getting that gunk off easier?

Also, while doing this I noticed that the mounting holes for the CPU heatsink look to be a little damaged. I don't see any bad traces, but this was a brand new board out of the box. Crap QC if you ask me. Haven't tested it yet, but we will see. I would take pictures, but the wife took the camera to the Rascal Flats concert tonight.

I need some help with my configuration. Am I supposed to put the ram in 1 & 3? When I try that, the computer won't boot at all. Can't even get to the bios. I tried both sticks in slot 1 and they both work. Do I need to adjust the voltage?

Currently I have the ram in slots 1 & 2 and it boots but windows only recognizes it as 3.25GB and it doesn't seem to be running as dual channel.

I've got Mushkin 2Gx2 996599: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...tent-_-text-_-

And of course, I also have the GA-EP45-UD3P

Been awhile since I built my last computer so any help is appreciated.

EDIT: I now realize that 3.25 is a win xp limitation...lame.

I have had my UD3R running my Q9300 at 400*7.5 on 1.1v since mid December last year. Not a single hiccup on Vista x64, it's crazy seeing the Reliability rating staying maxed out at 10 with all the crap I do. The occasional IE crash thanks to Microshaft, and some buggy freeware is all that has crashed.

Q9300@400*7.5 1.1v
4*2 GB G.Skill PC8500 1.9v
GTX260 stock
All voltages are at default.

I have had the FSB to 500mhz when I first got this board, just playing around really, it took a bump in voltage of course, but it never complained. I never tried anything higher because I like things to stay cool and quiet anyway, and I knew I would be at 3.00ghz for everyday use. Here is a good message board for Gigabyte...

http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/

Well I have determined that my board is bad. DDR2_2 does not work. I RMA'd it. Crossing fingers that the replacement is fine.

So who has tried the F10e bios? Better then the f10b?

Running F10e here.
Haven't really noticed it "better"
Might have no usb mouse detection VERY occasionally....the odd time though never had it before on other bios.

AHH...Note mouse usb plug was almost out of mb socket...fixed.

F10e rocks! System feels more stable but could be the Win7. Also sleep is working with Win7 and If i remember right this board has an issue with that?

I've got this MB and it's been nothing but a giant headache, keeps killing new disks... I've got the F7 BIOS, I suppose I need to upgrade? What's the best way to do that without a floppy?

Originally Posted by gibber

I've got this MB and it's been nothing but a giant headache, keeps killing new disks... I've got the F7 BIOS, I suppose I need to upgrade? What's the best way to do that without a floppy?

How about using a flash drive?

Originally Posted by gibber

I've got this MB and it's been nothing but a giant headache, keeps killing new disks... I've got the F7 BIOS, I suppose I need to upgrade? What's the best way to do that without a floppy?

The mobo is killing your hard drives? Did you try a different PSU? My F7 had no issues with this. You can flash these boards easily by putting the rom file on a Fat32 formatted USB drive. Plug it in and go into the bios... press F8 and choose I believe HD 0-0 should be the usb drive. There is an F10F bios out now also. I put it on another machine and we have had no issues with it so far. This board rocks.

Originally Posted by the_jc

I need some help with my configuration. Am I supposed to put the ram in 1 & 3? When I try that, the computer won't boot at all. Can't even get to the bios. I tried both sticks in slot 1 and they both work. Do I need to adjust the voltage?

Currently I have the ram in slots 1 & 2 and it boots but windows only recognizes it as 3.25GB and it doesn't seem to be running as dual channel.

I've got Mushkin 2Gx2 996599: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...tent-_-text-_-

And of course, I also have the GA-EP45-UD3P

Been awhile since I built my last computer so any help is appreciated.

EDIT: I now realize that 3.25 is a win xp limitation...lame.

I had trouble getting my system to run stable with RAM in slots 1 & 3. I moved them to 2 & 4 and everything was all better. I've read other people having the same issue.

@RevMen - What kind of RAM do you have?

I have G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)

I do have another problem, though, and it may be Windows 7 related. I have 2 mirror arrays, both on the yellow plugs. One for OS and one for data. Starting last night, I get constant hard disk access. I can't tell which array it's on for sure, but I think data. It's a continual series of short bursts to the hard drive. In addition to being really annoying sounding, it slows things down like watching videos.

When I get home tonight I'm going to try updating the chipset driver, I read somewhere where that worked. But if someone else knows something to try I'd be happy to hear it.

It turns out my problem was a faulty HDD. I took it back to Fry's for a replacement today and now both of my arrays purr like kittens.

Originally Posted by cyclone3d

Just got my ga-ep45-ud3p v1.6 a couple days ago. Working on max fsb with my Q6600 right now.... so many more voltage options than my old p35 board.... getting there though. Up to 470fsb so far. Hope to get past 500 with some more tweaking.

edit: 490fsb so far... will add more later. Time to go to bed.

edit2: Looks like 490fsb is the limit for my Q6600. Could be some setting I am overlooking, but I tried a bunch of different stuff and it is not stable at all above 490fsb.

Hi, this is just the info I was looking for. Could you possibly post the voltages you had to set it to to achieve your fantasic O.C.? How stable is that O.C.? My ga-ep-ud3p should be arriving today to replace my failing IP35Pro that I overcocked my G0-Q6600 to 3.6 on air using a lapped cpu and TRUE heatsink. I have 2x2G of Corsair Dominator 1066 RAM for some extra headroom (used to run Corsair 800). Any starting voltages and any other info. you can give about how the G0-6600 O.C.'d on this board would be very appreciated.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by EngineChauffer

Hi, this is just the info I was looking for. Could you possibly post the voltages you had to set it to to achieve your fantasic O.C.? How stable is that O.C.? My ga-ep-ud3p should be arriving today to replace my failing IP35Pro that I overcocked my G0-Q6600 to 3.6 on air using a lapped cpu and TRUE heatsink. I have 2x2G of Corsair Dominator 1066 RAM for some extra headroom (used to run Corsair 800). Any starting voltages and any other info. you can give about how the G0-6600 O.C.'d on this board would be very appreciated.

Thanks!

Right now I am runinng at 480fsb as 490 is too high for my processor to handle at an 8x multiplier.... at least with the temps I am willing to run it at anyway.

I have to go do a job in a couple minutes, but I will write down my BIOS settings and post them here after I get back.

Here are my current BIOS settings for 3.84Ghz at 480x8.

Robust Graphics Booster - Turbo
PCI-E - 100
CIA2 - disabled


[Advanced Clock Control ]
CPU Clock Drive - 800mv
PCI-E Clock Drive - 700mv
CPU clock Skew - 0ps
MCH Clock Skew - 200ps

[DRAM Performance Control]
Performance Enhance - Turbo
XMP - disabled
MCH Frequency Latch - 333Mhz
System Memory Multiplier (SPD) 2.00B (1:1 for the 333Mhz MCH Latch)

[MB Voltage Control]
Load Line Calibration - Enabled
CPU Vcore - 1.425 (stock is 1.2625 for my chip)
CPU Termination - 1.280
CPU PLL - 1.590
MCH Core - 1.340
MCH Reference - 0.850
MCH/DRAM Reference - 1.100
ICH I/O - 1.610
ICH Core - 1.200

Make sure to set your RAM timings and voltages manually as the board will NOT detect them properly.

One other reason I am not running a 490fsb is because I was having issues with it not posting. I would have to unplug it while it was continuosly restarting, wait a couple seconds, and then plug the power back in. After that it would boot fine.... so strange.

I have been running it at these current settings for a couple months now and haven't had a single lockup, reboot, etc. Stable as can be.