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hminh87

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03-27-2008 at 11:53:11 PM

I'm thinking of purchasing one of these motherboard.
Now there has been some people complaining about the BIOS problem with these. Can anyone explain exactly what it's all about?

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dagger

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03-27-2008 at 11:57:56 PM

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hminh87 wrote :

I'm thinking of purchasing one of these motherboard.
Now there has been some people complaining about the BIOS problem with these. Can anyone explain exactly what it's all about?

As far as I know, Gigabyte bios for x38 was reported as pretty solid. It's the Abit and Asus x38 bios that got a lot of complaints.

Just wondering, what's the difference between the DS4 and DQ6? I couldn't make out much difference looking at just the specs. The only significant difference I saw was 8 sata ports for DQ6 instead of 6 for DS4.

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hminh87

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03-28-2008 at 12:53:20 AM

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dagger wrote :

As far as I know, Gigabyte bios for x38 was reported as pretty solid. It's the Abit and Asus x38 bios that got a lot of complaints.

Just wondering, what's the difference between the DS4 and DQ6? I couldn't make out much difference looking at just the specs. The only significant difference I saw was 8 sata ports for DQ6 instead of 6 for DS4.

I read somewhere that the DQ6 has little bet power regulators but this is not completely confirmed yet. The DS4 is very popular and not many have problem with it so far.

NewAMDUser

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04-02-2008 at 04:18:03 AM

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On the bios issues, I'm not aware of any. I just built a machine with a DQ6, with zero bios issues. It came with the F1 bios -- no problem immediately booting with an E8400 and 2x2GB DDR2-800 4-4-4-12 2T. Once I had it running with Vista 64 and 4x2GB, I flashed to the F2 bios; again no issues.

jay_l_a

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04-02-2008 at 08:33:37 PM

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I've had no problems. Completely stable.

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aznguy0028

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04-02-2008 at 08:56:47 PM

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i had no problems with this mobo either. i built mines with a q9450, my friend had an extra intel 775 cpu laying around, so i put that in, did the windows bios update instead of flashing it, to f3 bios. and then i put in my q9450, and everything was fine ran stable ever since.

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