I am building a system (my first) with a GA-X38-DQ6 motherboard. It came with the F4 BIOS. Should I upgrade the BIOS to F5h or F6b or some other level?
It has been a real pain getting this system to post. The first motherboard I had would do the constant power on/off cycle. That one was returned to Newegg. I got a refund from them instead of the replacement I asked for. The GA-X38-DQ6 isn't even listed on their web site anymore. I got the second one from ZipZoomFly.
It would also be nice if it was documented somewhere that you have to have a non-USB keyboard just so you can turn on the USB keyboard/mouse enabled settings in the BIOS. Are there any other BIOS changes like that one that I need to make.
Thanks for the your help. I am sure I'll have additional questions. The configuration of the system I am building is shown below.
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
GIGABYTE GA-X38-DQ6
COOLER MASTER COSMOS 1000
CORSAIR Dominator 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (2 of these)
Western Digital Raptor X WD1500AHFD 10000 RPM 150GB (2 of these)
Hitachi 0A35772 1TB SATA 7200 RPM 32MB Cache (2 of these)
GIGABYTE ODIN GE-M800A-D1-NO SF ATX12V PSU
EVGA e-GeForce 8800GTS 320 MB PCIe
LITE-ON LH-20A1S DVD/CD
It has been a real pain getting this system to post. The first motherboard I had would do the constant power on/off cycle. That one was returned to Newegg. I got a refund from them instead of the replacement I asked for. The GA-X38-DQ6 isn't even listed on their web site anymore. I got the second one from ZipZoomFly.
It would also be nice if it was documented somewhere that you have to have a non-USB keyboard just so you can turn on the USB keyboard/mouse enabled settings in the BIOS. Are there any other BIOS changes like that one that I need to make.
Thanks for the your help. I am sure I'll have additional questions. The configuration of the system I am building is shown below.
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
GIGABYTE GA-X38-DQ6
COOLER MASTER COSMOS 1000
CORSAIR Dominator 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (2 of these)
Western Digital Raptor X WD1500AHFD 10000 RPM 150GB (2 of these)
Hitachi 0A35772 1TB SATA 7200 RPM 32MB Cache (2 of these)
GIGABYTE ODIN GE-M800A-D1-NO SF ATX12V PSU
EVGA e-GeForce 8800GTS 320 MB PCIe
LITE-ON LH-20A1S DVD/CD
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