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...

I have just built a pc with the following specs GA-7N400-L1 2* 512mb DDR400 MSI GeForce4 Ti4200-8* 128 mb ddr 350w hyena psu Win XP sp1 at the moment only 40gb hdd I have updated bios and drivers from gigabyte website My problem is it won't shut down It will happily go into standby but if I hit...

Hi all, I decided to replace my Athlon xp2100 processor as I was aware it doesn't come unlocked so decided the Barton 2500 was value for money, and, I thought it came unlocked, however when I went to change it, using easy tune 4 the option is not available, have I goofed with the processor, or is...

I'm pretty new to all this PC building thing, and so far thinsg ahve gone well. Except that my AMD2600 shows up only as a 1250MHz in my new GA-7N400 Pro2. This shows during BIOS boot up and in WindowsXP (Mycomputerproperties). Any help woule be VERY welcome MB

I have been testing my new ga-7n499 Pro, with AMD 2500+ and 512MB ddr3200 today looks like i made a booboo History: Since the 2500+ was rated at 333, I bought 2700ddr. When I ramped up to spec speed, 166/333 11x for 1834Mhz, I got lots of errors with memtest86 v3.0. I opted to exchange my...

I'm considering not putting a floppy drive in my new computer. I have a LAN and the other computers have floppies. Anyone see a reason why I should include one? Thanks. -- Scott

Hello! Sorry for the crosspost, I wanted to make sure to reach a maximum of potential readers who might be able to help me. I just recently re-built an old system based on a GA-586DX board. Today I wanted to flash the BIOS to get 30GB HDD support. I downloaded the BIOS v3.43 from ZDNet and...

need one for 2nd system. tia chris

I am using GB-8KNXP. In the bios for boot up, there is NO choice for SCSI. Under SCSI/RAID Cntlr Boot Order, I have these choices: 1. Promise Mass Storage ControllerSilicon Image RAID Controller (yes, I installed an Ultra66 card.I use it for my Iomega 100zipdrive) 2.Silicon Image RAID...

Hi. I've today upgraded my GA7-VAX with AMD 2000+ and 512Mb 2700 RAM to same motherboard with AMD 2700+ and an additional 512Mb 2700 RAM. My problem is this. Ever since doing this upgrade, the PC is messing about when it comes to starting up and shutting down. Problem 1. As soon as I plug in the...

I have had this board for a while know it has been back to Gigabyte twice. For a long time know I have been aware that it is a pile of crap so much so that I am giving it one last chance before I am going to have a burning of the motherboard party lol. After it came back from Gigabyte it worked ok...

Ebuyer are very good on prices but hold a very limited range of Gigabyte products. Is there a UK supplier that has a comprehensive range of GA products and is also very competitively priced?

Hi. I am trying to learn all I can about overclocking. I recently installed a 8KNXP and some new RAM and Processor and I am looking for a site or book on overclocking. thanks

This was posted on alt.comp.pc-homebuilt- Hi all Bought my fave hardware magazine the other day and discovered something which I thought others might want to know about ( just in case ). A lot of people these days are running processors with a fast L2 cache, normally 512kb -...

Hi all I've got the Gigabyte GA8Iexp mobo, and there's a pair of unknown devices I can't get rid of no matter what I try. I've installed all the drivers provided (as far as I am aware), including the latest Intel chipset drivers. My Windows XP install is also fully updated. The two devices are...

Hi, I have a PATA drive connected to IDE0 master, and one SATA connected to ICH5R, SATA 0. Both have a bootable W2K partition and boot well if only on is present. But if both drives are connected the pc alway boots from the PATA drive. How can I change that? I set OnChip SATA manual, to SATA0,...

My first question is : Has anyone out there running this combination of hardware? I can't seem to get this processor to boot at all. Everything works fine with my old Athlon 750, but when I plug my new Duron 1300 in, it auto detects the drives then hangs. I have been told that the fact that the...

I am looking at building this box; MB == Gigabyte GA-7NNXP CPU == AMD XP 3000+ Case == Antec or equiv. w/ 500W PS HD == (2) 80GB Seagate SATA/150 CDRW == Yamaha CRW-F1 Video == PNY Quadro 750XGL OS == Windows XP But now I am stumped on the RAM. I was going to buy two of these Corsair

How the fek do I get this bugger to work? First off, getting the bios to report the correct processor. I can get it to successfully boot when shown as 1250 MHz, that is when the system bus frequency is set to 100MHz (setting CLK_SW jumper to OFF). According to the manual, CLK_SW can be set to...

Hi all I've got the Gigabyte GA8Iexp mobo, and there's a pair of unknown devices I can't get rid of no matter what I try. I've installed all the drivers provided (as far as I am aware), including the latest Intel chipset drivers. My Windows XP install is also fully updated. The two devices are...