P35-DS3L new beta bios

[Billbo]

Version F8a is now listed on the website. Anyone tried it yet?

 

[Idontcare]

Nope, what's it supposed to fix/remedy/enable?

F7 is doing me good right now. Thanks for posting the heads-up though, I would not have known otherwise as I don't usually check for these things.

 

[Billbo]

It has support for the new E8xxx's.
Interesting the date is 6th December. Looks like they've release betas to support the Wolfdale's for a few of their boards.

 

[Idontcare]

Are the DS3L's expected to support Yorkfields too at some point?

 

[Billbo]

The QX9650 is supported since bios F7.

 

[kronusthebonus]

This is interesting.. I'm building a new machine.. I've got an E8400 on order, expected to arrive a little bit after the 21st of the month.. My motherboard is the DS3L... I contact gigabyte to ask them if my board will work with the new chip and they couldn't give me a straight answer.

They say I need the F8a BIOS, but they couldn't tell me if I could flash the BIOS with the E8400 in it if it is not being recognized. I'd rather not have to buy some crappy celeron D processor to throw in there to update my board.. Any suggestions?

Sorry to semi-hijack the thread...

 

[Riverhound777]

Originally posted by: kronusthebonus
This is interesting.. I'm building a new machine.. I've got an E8400 on order, expected to arrive a little bit after the 21st of the month.. My motherboard is the DS3L... I contact gigabyte to ask them if my board will work with the new chip and they couldn't give me a straight answer.

They say I need the F8a BIOS, but they couldn't tell me if I could flash the BIOS with the E8400 in it if it is not being recognized. I'd rather not have to buy some crappy celeron D processor to throw in there to update my board.. Any suggestions?

Sorry to semi-hijack the thread...

I'm in the same boat. My bios is F3. I asked Gigabyte the same question and didnt' get a response. I read in another forum that an MSI board said it didn't recognize the processor and went into flash the bios. But I haven't read about a gigabyte board doing this yet. If anything I guess I can borrow a C2D from the work computer sitting on my desk(if they let me).

 

[mikecdm]

I just built my system 2 days ago and flashed it from F5 to F8a. The F5 kept on doing the double boot stuff and wouldn't keep any o/c settings. After flashing it only does the double boot initially after any bios changes, and I haven't had any problems trying to o/c my e2180.

 

[Billbo]

Wow that would be really good if it fixes the double boot. Any other notable changes in the bios? Settings added/removed? Half multipliers or anything like that?

 

[mikecdm]

I didn't really notice any other changes. I'll admit I didn't do too much looking around before I flashed it. I just went into the bios, tried a simple o/c to 2.5ghz and it just kept doing the double boot then going back to stock settings. Then I decided to flash the bios and saw this new beta version and figured why not.