The Northbridge fan on my mobo has started making a kind of grinding sound during the boot process. After windows has loaded it goes back to the normal noise it's supposed to make. Initally I thought the noise was coming from one of my hard drives as it sounded like when the bearings go and even...

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Guys, i hace the above mb with two hd's as master & slave on IDE 1, and a cdrw & cd rom as master & slave od IDE2. I have just been given a dvd drive - can I use this on IDE3? I plugged it in, but no joy. TIA for any advice Mark

I'm running a p4 2.8ghz on a GA-8IK1100 (875P) m/board. Easytune 4 reports temps of 50 degrees idle in win xp. Is this an acceptable temperature? My cpu fan is a cooler master DI4-7I52A (Easy tune 2960rpm). I have two 12cm IN/OUT fans (both at 2500rp) and another outlet fan which sits along a...

Hi, I own a Gigabyte P4 Titan 8IEXP mobo, with 845E Intel chipset and onboard Promise 20276 raid controller. Pentium4 1.6A, 256 MB ram, 80GB harddisk, DVD, CD burner. I know that the onboard Promise raid controller (20276) allows for hard disks greater than 127 MB, but I wanted to use the 160 GB...

Here I was quite happy running FH but I read in this NG good things about FJ. So why not upgrade the BIOS, have done it since FE for GA-8KNXP Rev 2.0 board. If I only would have known than what I experienced for the past 8 hours. I followed directions and had no problem updating the BIOS...

I have a GA7N400Pro 2 REV2 I cant get my DVD-RW DMA any higher than 2 "or UDMA 33" Tried many drivers, Bios updates and flashes with no luck. -- G©

I installed all the drivers from the CD on my GA 7VT600 1394. USB controller 1,2,3,& 4 are showing 1.1. Controller 5 is showing 2.0. Shouldn't all the USB's be 2.0? Rudy

Lem wrote: Do all Dell PCs (for the UK market) come with Dell's own motherboards? I am thinking of getting a Dell but I don't want to find that it uses a Dell proprietary motherboard that may have little technical data available. ISTR hearing that Dell used a non-standad wiring on...

I have a custom built PC I made myself built on a gigabyte 8IK1100 mobo, P4 hyperthread 800mhzfsb 2.4mhz cpu, 512mb corsair low latency ddr 400 ram, ati radeon 7500 card 8x agp ddr ram, pioneer dvd rom, standard floppy, 2 additional case fans. The Problem is that I left the computer running for a...

Just loaded Motherboard Monitor 5, to try to track down an annoying problem. Thought it might be a heat issue, but now I can't tell. First, here are my system specs: GA7-N400 Pro2 (Rev1) AthlonXP 2400+ (not overclocked) Vantec AeroFlow heatsink / fan Antec TruePower 550w Case has two additional...

My second raptor drive just came in. I'll prolly switch over around wednesday night. I'm using an 8KNXP ver2.0 and plan on using the intel controller. I'm going to scan the ng once again and pick up some helpful hints and was wondering if anyone had a quick "step by step" to throw at me so I can...

I have had the F14 version of the bios installed for some time now on my GA-7VAXP, but recently it has started playing up. When the computer is turned on it starts to boot, but then after a few seconds it just turns it's self off. The only way I can get into windows is by going in to the bios...

Hello, I have a GA-7DPXDW-P MB and was wondering if is it possible to "upgrade" the RAID on this MB to enable full RAID 0+1 configuration. I have 4 120GB disks that I'd like to mirror and stripe, giving me fast 240GB of mirrored disk. I have been searching round the net and found something that...

Flashed the bios (to F8) in this board, it did its thing and said it was successful and rebooted to a black screen. cleared CMOS with the same problem. Is there any other way to salvage this mobo or is it totally trashed? Thanks for any help. AA

Hi all... These are the 2 motherboards I'm considering for a new system. The Gigabyte is A$90 more than the Asus. What are your thoughts on these boards? Specifically, is the Gigabyte worth the extra $$$?? Stupot

I have recently upgraded my system. Pertinent components a Gigabyte GA-8KNXP ver. 2.0 w/FH BIOS Intel P4 2.8C CPU w/Thermalright SP-94 heatsink and 90mm Panaflo fan 1GB (2x512) Super Talent PC4000 (DDR500) memory nVidia GeForce2 GTS graphics card (obviously not upgraded yet) Adaptec 29160 U160...

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Hi, GIGABYTE GA-7N400 PRO2 ATHALON XP2700 CPU 512mb rAM gFORCE4 VID Problem Made a raid array striped 0 build ok Installed the Gigaraid utility in win2k shows status ok Driver installed in Device Manager ok

Did you plug in the 4 pin 12V connector on the mobo? It's on the upper left corner. The board comes with an adapter in case your PSU doesn't have one. Rudy "Michiro" wrote in message ... The system is failing to...