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...

Can anyone provide any tips or guidelines for tuning my setup? Or, how about some benchmarking utilities to see if I am getting all I am supposed to get out of the system? I have several benchmark utilities, but they just say I ma faster than some, but not as fast as others. This is very generic...

To be used with the Gigabyte nForce4 Ultra board, which i shall be getting in January :-) http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/dlac97-2.aspx?lineid=5&famid=12&series=8&Software=True

For background see page 4 of the following article:- http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/pentiumd-820.html There seems to be a FUNCTIONAL problem with the nF4-SLI(Intel) chip-set if both cores of the Pentium-D 820 are enabled. Applications crash or hang, the motherboard re-boots......

Would appreciate any insight into the correct mb dip switch settings for my GA-7VAX to recognize a AMD XP 2600/333 Barton CPU. . . tia. . . cil

I am thinking on getting a new motherboard within the next couple of months. I ahve always had Gigabyte boards from a GA-5AX and the one I am using now a GA-7DXR. I was thinking on either the non SLI board GA-K8NXP-9 board. Or the SLI boards Gigabyte GV-3D1 package. Or

In PC Health Status, in the BIOS I am seeing 7 degrees C for the CPU and 4C for the board.. I know this cant be right I am also seeing these same temps using Nvidia nvsystemutility. I am hoping future BIOS updates will fix this..Anyone else seeing these low temps? Thanks.

Intel Application Accelerator 4.5 http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/filter_results.asp?strOSs=44&strTypes=DRV%2CUTL&ProductID=1809&OSFullName=Windows*+XP+Professional&submit=Go%21 Intel® 82547EI Gigabit Ethernet...

Hi, I'm thinking about buying a high end opteron board, but before i shell out the money i want to make sure that it'll be good for a while. Last week i was reading an article in PcMag which talked about the timeline for CPUs over the next two years(i'm starting to realize they put out this...

Hi to all, one question: Is it possible to disable the external cache? How? My configuration: AMIBIOS Ver 1.2.3 (1999) Board: Gigabyte GA-7IXE4 F7 Socket A

I've tried to update the BIOS to F3 with @bios and now the machine does't work. PWS, HDD, CPU Fan works but no display and no beep. BIOS rescue with floppy disk doesn't work. I will upload the firmware by a programmer to the bios chip. What's wrong with @bios? Or was the problem F3 bios? -- Onur...

As the topic says, which gigabyte s939 boards are going to suport the X2 chip? TIA M.

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I'm reposting this as the thread is timing out on my newsgroup server. Any comments would be appreciated. Daryl After a long and very frustrating weekend, I am back on the old hardware. I started by copying the old BIOS to a floppy and flashing the two newest versions of the BIOS to the main and...

I accidentally hit the restart when I was wiping off some dust , then nothing it would not boot kept getting Press r on the cd to repair missing files . well I tried to do so... I was able to get it to boot briefly in safe mode until it rebooted then gave me the same thing ; Keeps looping in boot...

Hi, i currently use the GA-7DXR with an Athlon Thunderbird 1400. I´ll upgrade the CPU. Which is the maximum CPU i can use? Thanks, Sebastian

Hi all Anyone know how I can get my 7VAXP (rev 1.2) to run with a 166 FSB. I have an Athlon 2400+ with pc2700 RAM that I'd like to run at 12 x 166 but I can only choose 133 - 165. I've flashed the latest BIOS (F14) but that hasn't changed anything. Thanks in advance,

GA-G31MF-S2 Intel Core 2 DUO 3ghz 2gb Pc4200 DDR II RAM CDROM on IDE0 120GB on SATA (new HDD) In the bios I've turned everything off, but windows XP refuses to install, no cards installed. Installing windows 39mins left

I have 2 Corsair PC 2700 333Mhz 256 Mb ram banks in slots 1 and 3 of my 7n400 Pro 2 board but the maximum speed I can set them to is 266 Mhz. When I set the bios (latest version) to adjust memory "by SPD", Windows 2000 (with SP 4) gives me the blue screen of death on boot up. Setting the bios to...

Ordered refurb'd fm Newegg for $70. Worth it or spend the extra $30-$50 for a top-flight nF2 Ultra 400 board? Found only one review at SubZero.com and several "slow post" and RAID/memory post probs in these NG's. Would like to hear from Pro owners but any input is welcome, thx all.