Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-9

[BlingBlingArsch]

hello,

what bios version is required to use a X2 3800+ on that board?

thx.

 

[lifesboring]

Looks like F4 per official website:

http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS_GA-K8N%20Ultra-9.htm

 

[BlingBlingArsch]

thx

 

[LED]

I just installed the latest F7 BIOS and frankly it sucks so does anyone have the F6 as I would appreciate it cause I lost it and now I'm back to F3...
TIA

 

[alcalde]

I'm building a new system with this board, and flashed the f7 BIOS to it. It refused to boot from that BIOS and booted from the backup BIOS instead. After installing Windows I used the Windows utility to flash the BIOS. I'm guessing it copied the F7 in the main bios to the backup BIOS before putting f7 in the main bios again, because now the board is totally unbootable!! If it happened in the Biosflash or in Windows I'd say it was me screwing up the bios flash, but not both times. I was already about to RMA the board because it would not POST with a TV tuner card in it (any PCI slot, even will all other devices removed, etc.) I placed the tuner in my old system and it posted fine, so it had to be the MB.

LED, you say F7 "sucks" for you. Does it at least POST and boot? If so, that's just more evidence for me that this board is defective.

The Giga-byte website only had F3 and F7 on it. In both instances, it lists the only changes to the BIOSes as CPU ID updates, which doesn't make sense.

Lastly, the F3 BIOS recognized the X2 3800+ by name, but XP never recognized the chip as dual-core. I'm starting to regret making the K8N Ultra-9 the MB for my first major PC upgrade in six years. :-(

 

[LED]

Yes it posted and I used both F7 and F7e(Beta)...problem is that it doesn't allow Mem OCing as well and it changes the setting in the BIOS which with F6 and under would have the Mem timing int advaced portion (ie.Alt +F1).
The Ultra is a Super Mobo when using F4 and above (esp. with F6). Remember to set the Mobo BIOS @ Default or Optimal settings before flashing.

I emailed Gigabyte for the F6 BIOS

Edit= I now have the F6 BIOS so if NE1 wants it PM me with their real e-mail addy.

 

[rperezlo]

I have a problem with BIOS F7 and F8 with this board. When it boots to XP it finds the DVD drive as a new drive (it was already there before updating the BIOS) and that is the last thing I see before it freezes. In addition to the IDE DVD drive I have two HDD in Raid-0 on the nVidia SATA ports.

I've read in other forum that this new BIOS finds the old drives as if they were new, but nobody mentions that their system hangs.

Any clues?

 

[supastar1568]

i havent had a problem with the F7 BIOS.

works fine

 

[rperezlo]

I found out the problem with F7 and F8 in my system. In case it can help someone, here is the solution...

I was using RMClock and I had set the minimum multiplier to 4X. This works fine with F6 but freezes F7 and F8. Setting the minimum multiplier in RMClock to 5X solves the problem.


BTW, I've read somewhere that this is specific to the AMD Athlon 64 X2, although in the case of this MB it also changes for different BIOS versions.