EGOvoruhk Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 It looks like Gigabyte has started to update the actual product pages. My 2 boards are update to 1.20E, and are out of beta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maco55 Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 Guys, I have a P35-DS3R, I don't understand what's this about?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EGOvoruhk Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 What's to understand? It's just new versions of your BIOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maco55 Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 oh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted July 2, 2009 Author Share Posted July 2, 2009 Guys, I have a P35-DS3R, I don't understand what's this about?? Beside other things may updated by BIOS (new cpus-IDS,...) AHCI BIOS part of the BIOS is used if you use AHCI native (not IDE mode SATA drives / not IDE drives) SATA drives. The much newer AHCI Bios part (inside the newer BIOS BIOS) boots much faster - thats the main information for that threat. Also some new (new AHCI bios part) Intel 965 GA BIOSes are alavilable since a few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knew know Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 Just to let anyone know that's running the EP45-DS5 or EP45-UD3R, there are some BIOS mods that were just released yesterday with AHCI 1.20E support! Hit the link.... I am personally running the UD3R one and boot times are cut by approx. 10 seconds. EP45-DS5 F12 BIOS with AHCI 1.20E http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/7/...1/ep45ds5m.f12 EP45-UD3R F10c with AHCI 1.20E: http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/7/.....;/EP45UD3Rm.10c kk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downlord Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 Installed F12 Bios on P35c-DS3R and everything working. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixola Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 Last month they realased the new F4 version for GA-EP35-DS3 it have the new 1.20 wow this is lighting fas nice yob from gigabyte Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted July 30, 2009 Author Share Posted July 30, 2009 A MUST !! (really): Do an "Load optimized defaults.." after the BIOS update. If not some RAM Timings may be wrong / in real (CPU-Z) other as shown. System may get instable / OC didnt work anymore.../ Ram Timings getting slow Nothing to do with AHCI, do always that with GA Bios updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheeplover Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 I checked back for the GA-EP45-DQ6 … no new BIOS containing AHCI 1.20e for this model in the BETA-Forum, neither on the support pages itself. Does anybody know something about this model? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted August 17, 2009 Author Share Posted August 17, 2009 Dont now, the last BIOS for that is F13A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gidi Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 I have EP45-UD3. Not "L" or "R" or "P". Just UD3, and can't see it listed. Can I update my bios with some version of that beta site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOLmoe Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 ugh, it seems like the EP43-DS3LR uses the same old bios, but i dont see any updates :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilK Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 grabbed bios F9 for my mobo (see sig, it's rev 1), unzipped the .exe in winxp, copied it to a freshly formatted FAT32 usb stick. went into q-flash, navigated to the file, and got an error while it was reading the file. can't remember the exact text of the error but it was some type of mismatch error. anyone had this and figured a workaround? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raggedjagged Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 updated P35-DS3R Bios to F13, all ok and works fine ..thx Same here, same mobo and same firmware and everything works, better! Thank you so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted September 5, 2009 Author Share Posted September 5, 2009 New BIOS available for some of x58 and EP43 EP45 X55 Gigabyte !!! Newest BIOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinner_plate Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 I am trying to update to the latest version of the G33M-S2 bios. Q-flash on this mobo does not seem to support USB drives, though. It looks for a floppy drive (I haven't owned a floppy drive since last century.) And as I do not have access to a Windows PC (nor Parallels) I don't know how to make a bootable USB stick to run the standalone Gigabyte flash utility. Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xopher Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Does the F11 BIOS for the EP45-UD3R (rev 1.1) include the fast AHCI? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rednous Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 mitch_de, any chance for BIOS newer than F9 for GA-EP43-DS3? thanx for the nice link :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted September 7, 2009 Author Share Posted September 7, 2009 I am trying to update to the latest version of the G33M-S2 bios.Q-flash on this mobo does not seem to support USB drives, though. It looks for a floppy drive (I haven't owned a floppy drive since last century.) And as I do not have access to a Windows PC (nor Parallels) I don't know how to make a bootable USB stick to run the standalone Gigabyte flash utility. Any thoughts? Normally Q-flash works with USB perfect! - the USB Stick must not be bootable, an empty (only the BIOS file on it) but FAT formated stick is enough - NO NTFS, NO HFS+ Filesystems, only FAT !! - you must have legancy support for USB enabled in the BIOS Does the F11 BIOS for the EP45-UD3R (rev 1.1) include the fast AHCI? YES, all updated BIOS since last 6 weeks include that AHCI 1.20E. 10F (last ) also includes AHCI 1.20E so 11 too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c0h1b4 Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Hi, can you please request them to pach the ga-ep45-ds3l motherboard f10 bios? Thanks, c0h1b4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinner_plate Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Normally Q-flash works with USB perfect!- the USB Stick must not be bootable, an empty (only the BIOS file on it) but FAT formated stick is enough - NO NTFS, NO HFS+ Filesystems, only FAT !! - you must have legancy support for USB enabled in the BIOS Thanks for the reply. I formatted the USB to FAT32, and I have legacy support on. But I will double check and try again with a different USB stick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin255 Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I want to be sure that updating will not brick my new and shiny SL install: will I need to create a new DSDT.aml after I upgrade the BIOS? Currently, I use DSDT for audio, ethernet, reset CMOS fix and EHCI/UHCI. My board is a P35-DS3P rev. 1.1, by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muddy Mudskipper Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 I am trying to update to the latest version of the G33M-S2 bios. Q-flash on this mobo does not seem to support USB drives, though. It looks for a floppy drive (I haven't owned a floppy drive since last century.) Any thoughts? I had this exact same problem on my board (G33M-DS2R), I'm not sure exactly what worked in the end but here's what I did: 1) Formatted USB stick as FAT. 2) Added just the BIOS file to the stick. 3) Put the stick in the slot before booting. 4) Oh, and I thought it hadn't worked because in Q-Flash the stick was listed (helpfully!) under 'floppy A'. i.e. I think if you hit 'return' on floppy A you can then select the USB stick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted September 9, 2009 Author Share Posted September 9, 2009 Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I want to be sure that updating will not brick my new and shiny SL install: will I need to create a new DSDT.aml after I upgrade the BIOS? Currently, I use DSDT for audio, ethernet, reset CMOS fix and EHCI/UHCI. My board is a P35-DS3P rev. 1.1, by the way. Good question !! I would do that - means getting out dsdt.dsl from new bios and put in the changes you made from the old bios (old dsdt.dsl) into that. Normally most things which are in dsdt wont change with new bios but you never now that. I would take that time to make an really fitting new dsdt - its less work, because you have already the dsdt.old and must only copy the patched parts. Dont forget to LOAD optimizrd bios defaults after first reboot with new bios - otherways often you get an instable system because some memory timings (internal) get mixed up. So : 1. DL new bios 2. Make an new dsdt with old dsdt and new dsdt_unpatched, save old (working dsdt) on some place 2.a perpare USB stick for qflash, copy new dsdst to its place 3. reboot , Qdosh flash 4. reboot, load optimized bios defaults 5 set your bios options again (dont use F12 to load old ones) 6. reboot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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