CTRL-F1 not working

Hi Gigabyte mb experts,

I'm in the process of finalizing the install of my first Gigabyte
board, a P35-DS4 (rev. 2). I basically got it up and running under Win
XP Pro using an E6850 CPU, a ATI 2900 Pro video card, a 350GB HDD and
an LG DVD drive. All powered by an Antec 650W PS.

I did notice that the <CTRL>-F1 function doesn't work for me in the
BIOS. (It's the function that is supposed to bring up additional
options for tweaking mb settings).
While I'm not ready to overclock at this time I may want to in the
future. So I'd like to have that working before my option to RMA this
board expires.

Since I can't see this being a hardware issue because when I hit
<CTRL-F1> the very bottom line in the BIOS main menu flickers
indicating that it did receive this command from the keyboard (I tried
2 different keyboards!). And to rule out a BIOS issue, I upgraded the
original F6 with the latest F7 BIOS.
Now I wonder if some other settings in the BIOS affects this option?
It would make sense that if I selected a predefined setting like
'Turbo', it might block additional tweaking options. But deselecting
that made no difference.

Does anyone have any clue as to what might be causing this?

Today I also noticed that I am not getting any sound out of the board
- not even the Windows startup jingle plays. But that's an issue for
another day - one step at a time

Thanks for any hints you experts can give me to resolve this ...

-=tom=-

"Tom Orle" <xspam.torle RemoveThis @comcast.net> wrote in message
news:lqbhj3hmhg9cjquspbmq7lqm8532l0qc1f@4ax.com...
> Hi Gigabyte mb experts,
>
> I'm in the process of finalizing the install of my first Gigabyte
> board, a P35-DS4 (rev. 2). I basically got it up and running under Win
> XP Pro using an E6850 CPU, a ATI 2900 Pro video card, a 350GB HDD and
> an LG DVD drive. All powered by an Antec 650W PS.
>
> I did notice that the <CTRL>-F1 function doesn't work for me in the
> BIOS. (It's the function that is supposed to bring up additional
> options for tweaking mb settings).
> While I'm not ready to overclock at this time I may want to in the
> future. So I'd like to have that working before my option to RMA this
> board expires.
>
> Since I can't see this being a hardware issue because when I hit
> <CTRL-F1> the very bottom line in the BIOS main menu flickers
> indicating that it did receive this command from the keyboard (I tried
> 2 different keyboards!). And to rule out a BIOS issue, I upgraded the
> original F6 with the latest F7 BIOS.
> Now I wonder if some other settings in the BIOS affects this option?
> It would make sense that if I selected a predefined setting like
> 'Turbo', it might block additional tweaking options. But deselecting
> that made no difference.
>
> Does anyone have any clue as to what might be causing this?
>
> Today I also noticed that I am not getting any sound out of the board
> - not even the Windows startup jingle plays. But that's an issue for
> another day - one step at a time
>
> Thanks for any hints you experts can give me to resolve this ...
>
> -=tom=-

Tom, I just built a system with this same board and I'm loving it! I don't
use the onboard sound so I can't help you there.

My Spec's are: P35-DS4 Rev. 2.0
Q6600 GO Stepping
2-Gig CORSAIR Dominator DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750W Quad
ATI X1900XTX MSI Version Video Card
HT Omega ClaroPlus+ Sound Card

I'm still learning how Gigabyte does things too! But so far it beats the
heck out of my ASUS boards.

Tim