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P5N-E SLI - stuck in PCI Express x8

Interesting... I decided to re-seat both the SLI mode adapter card and my VGA card, just to be safe. Now the nVidia driver is reporting PCI Express x16 like it should. Funky. I guess those SLI mode adapter cards are real sensitive. I remember re-seating it a while back when I got my...
- koitsu
- Post #2
- May 14, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
P5N-E SLI - stuck in PCI Express x8

Alright, I sure hope someone's come across this before... When I got this board, I never bothered to check this until now. :( Upon investigation today, I found that the nVidia Control Panel is reporting that my video card is running at x8 speeds ("Bus: PCI Express x8"). The SLI mode...
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- May 14, 2007
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Motherboards
*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

See Page 28, my post starting with the words "Believe the following apps only:" I explain details there.
- koitsu
- Post #621
- Nov 20, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

Gary, Can you or someone technically-savvy (no "I think it's..." or "d00d its loklolzz duh" responses) answer my two remaining questions? 1. What exactly are people referring to when they say ""C2 revision"". This term is being thrown around boards almost as much as "lol". I've read...
- koitsu
- Post #612
- Nov 17, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

And according to the Gigabyte (Taiwan) site, the latest BIOS listed is still F7. There's a 112-or-so-page thread over at XtremeSystems discussing all the BIOSes and sub-revisions of F8 (initially was F8, then F8a, then F8f, and now according to this board, F8i). I'll be blunt: all of these...
- koitsu
- Post #611
- Nov 17, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

I have never in my entire life seen a BIOS that let you toggle this feature (re: displaying legacy-like post-BIOS-initialisation IRQ settings, COM port assignments, memory size, etc. in standard 80x25 text mode). I can agree with you in regards to one aspect: the information being shown there...
- koitsu
- Post #610
- Nov 17, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

This shouldn't happen with any BIOS labelled F6 or later. Make sure you reset to factory (optimised) defaults in the BIOS, save BIOS settings, reboot, then go into the BIOS and adjust things. I've also noticed that adjusting any of the hardware monitoring settings (PWM vs. QST, etc.) causes...
- koitsu
- Post #609
- Nov 17, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
*** Official Intel DP965LT Thread ***

Has anyone here investigated the issue between certain models of Antec NeoHE PSUs and the Intel DP965LT board? There's a thread over on SilentPCReview about the NeoHE PSUs in general. The last couple pages mention the NeoHE in regards to the DP965LT...
- koitsu
- Post #310
- Nov 8, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

Upgraded to F8A (beta BIOS). First thing I noticed was the lack-of temperature monitoring for the MCH and (G)MCH. Changing Smart Fan from "Auto" to Intel QST addressed that (and also added some sort-of PCI device, which seemed to have an effect on IRQ distribution w/out the APIC (that means in...
- koitsu
- Post #562
- Oct 28, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

Something for other DS3 owners: Can some (all?) of you check your Windows Event Log (Administrative Tools -> Event Log), under System events, and see if you've received any Error conditions during heavy interrupt usage (i.e. heavy audio + video (gaming), heavy disk I/O, etc.)? The reason I...
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- Post #560
- Oct 27, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
Chipset FAN replacement for DFI LanParty nForce4

Yes.
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- Post #5
- Oct 26, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

Believe the following apps only: RMClock 2.2 RC1 (or later) and CoreTemp. All other apps do not monitor actual core temperature, but external system temperature. NOTE: I've seen temperature differences between RMClock and CoreTemp. Up until about 3 minutes ago, I could never figure out why...
- koitsu
- Post #557
- Oct 26, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

EDIT: Ah ha. The details about the "1.8V bug" are mentioned in Undersea's review of the DS3's BIOS. :-) Hehehehe... For those wanting details: http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2854 (I'll point out that I'm using Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400 DDR2-800 (v5.1 I believe; I can check the...
- koitsu
- Post #556
- Oct 26, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

Which is bad design. The APIC (not ACPI) exists solely to solve this problem. For some particular reason, Gigabyte chooses to pre-assign all of the devices on the bus to a couple set of IRQs (in my case, not two; more like three or four). APICs specifically address this problem by increasing...
- koitsu
- Post #555
- Oct 26, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
*** Official Gigabyte P965-DS3 Thread ***

Ah, indeed you're right. (I don't use IDE, so I never go looking for the connectors). I always thought the black port was IDE, not FDD... hahaha. :D http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Mot...x?ProductID=2314&ModelName=GA-965P-DS3 So the situation should still be just fine. If your...
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- Post #406
- Oct 11, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards

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