Hoi, Please pay attention to some aseholes over here who think they now something about Gigabyte, but the only thing they know is how to stick to rules and how to scare new poeple of the site. Thanks again Bruno

I am about to purchase a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro 2 (Rev2.0) with a AMD XP 3200 Barton 400fsb. Is the AGP voltage ok with a 9700 Pro? (slightly confused over the AGP voltage settings). cheers SlicK

Today I have Athlon XP 2600+ but its a bit slow. whats the best CPU available for it? Thanks Balo

I have put together a new system that crashes with the above error when testing the CMI9880 speakers, and sometimes at randomn. Seems okay if only one jack used, but crashes when second set of speakers are plugged in and tested - using the Audio configuration utility. I have reloaded with...

i have just upgraded to a GA-K8NS PRO mainboard and installed it without a glitch, went ahead and installed windows and drivers etc. THEN i was looking in the manual for something and noticed the +12v power connector and it says that the bord will not boot if this is not connected. the thing is...

Seems to fail about every 10 minutes in winXP Corp SP2. (32 & 64bit windows). Any one else seen this? And Gigaraid IT8212. I tried this with 2 identical 80G Seagate 7200rpm drives.

Hi Folks, Got my lovely new PC yesterday (K8NF-9 nForce4). However there is an annoying problem. When I use a USB mouse with my PS/2 keyboard, the keyboard is not recognised in Win XP. If I remove the keyboard from Device Manager and then search for new hardware, the keyboard is recognised and...

My qs are as follows; 1. how does the motherboard calculates the rpm of fan(s) 2. the votages are given like this +5V, +12V etc and these start from zero thats wht i think. but the motherboard show from -3.22V to +5 V. my qs is if the negative side increases does it have some kinda of effect on...

Got a sata hard drive but not sure if I can use it . I have a Gigabyte m/b GA-7VT600-L, I know the chipset (VIA KT600) supports sata, but on this board there are no sata port connectors. If I buy a controller card and stick it in a pci slot will I still see the speed that the sata drive is...

GA-K8NS Ultra-939 Generic USB 256Mb pen This device works find when plugged directly into the MB but when I use a front panel i have odd problems. Sometimes it is not picked up, sometimes it is. Sometimes it is listed as a storage device but i cannot access the files, othertimes i will try to...

Dear All, I have the strangest problem with my new motherboard (a 8i915P Duo Pro). I would like to use the 3 IDE slots of this machine, or at least 2 of them. I've installed a Linux Fedora Core 3 on IDE1 (either Master or Slave, with the other device being a CDROM). Linux boots fine but it...

I am looking for 1 Gig of the fastest ram compatible with this board to overclock a 2.6 mh Pentium 4 with hyperthreading. Need advice please.

A driver section has been added, does anyone know what it means by Windows XP 64bit?....does this mean it is not intended for Windows XP Professional SP2? http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-K8NXP-SLI.htm

I have a new GA-81915g pro mb. When i boot up knoppix on cd-rom, I get a steady beep from the on-board speaker. A steady tone all the while knoppix is loaded. Even when I boot up fedora, it get a brief tone - more than a beep , but less than a second. ??? sean

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 GA-8PE667 Ultra MB. What is the fastest CPU I can use on this board? It is a Socket 478 for Intel Micro FC-PGA2. The manual says it has a 533/400MHz FSB, and it supports Intel Pentium 4 (Northwood, 0.13um) and Hyper-Thread technology. Also, can I use PC3200 DIMM memory (DDR400)? The...

I would appreciate suggestions about a problem I am having. The PC is based around a GA7N400 Pro mainboard with an Athlon XP2700 cpu. It has been used for about 2 years. Now, it sometimes won't boot (not displaying anything on the screen at all), or when booted, will crash some time later, usually...

Does anyone know how to safely take the CPU retention backplate off ? It is made by ThermalTake, has standard 2 screws, but the backplate itself, is double sided taped to the back of the motherboard. And GOOD quality double sided tape - so far.

Hi, I am using the F17 bios under XP Home... Whenever I try to change any BIOS setting and save, re-boot, the system hangs before the memory check... Only way out is to flip the CMOS battery out and back-in - then I'm back to square-one...

Hi, Running Win 2000 SP4 on rev 2.2 of this MOBO... I have a Belkin F5U005 USB card and when I try to connect my ADSL modem it will not work... I've got all the latest BIOS and MOBO upgrades from Gigabyte, and the latest drivers for the modem and I've tried the USB card in all the PCI slots...