I am looking at building a new system and using 2 SATA drives in a RAID 1 configuration for reliability. I want to use the GA-8I875 board but although this board uses the Intel ICH5R chip it does not appear to support SATA RAID 1 only RAID 0. The specs. for the GA-8IK1100 and GA-8KNXP boards both...

Hi, I had a strange problem with my new GA-7N400 mb the other week. When I had installed the system I was not able to install windows on my new SATA disk. I went into the BIOS and disabled the SATA RAID function. However, when I had done this the PC would halt halfway through the boot at the BIOS...

Hi, Sorry, but I just don't understand what memory I should get. I am getting the GA-K8N-Pro with the AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Retail. Do I need registered, dual channel etc.? As long as I am writing, what do you think of the WD Raptor 79G, power supply and cooling. And all format DVD...

Am choosing a socket-A motherboard for a new PC. I want to use it for "power surfing" and "power home use" but I do not need it for gaming, overclocking, video editing or any of that stuff. I am very tempted by the Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe but I will need to have more than four IDE devices attaches...

i'm starting fresh with 2 WD120SE's and 1 Maxtor SATA 80. i have a large music/video library served from my computer. I plan on putting the OS on the SATA. any suggestions for the WD's? Should i run through Nforce or the Gigaraid? And if Gigaraid, should I RAID? Which port is better for...

I have a GA-7 VAX board that I had a 1800 chip in, I tried to upgrade to a 2400 chip and must have done something wrong. It would not boot to XP, (dual boot). The BIOS recognized the 2400 when it first started but it hangs before Windows even starts to open. I took the new 2400 chip out and put the...

Has anyone out there got a 120GB drive to run on a 6VX7-4X Board and, if so, using what BIOS? I'm told the Gigabyte site mentions the old 75GB IBM works, so there is hope that 120GB should be OK! TIA Andy

"Vincent Patterson" wrote in message ... I just got this MB from my office (right out of the box) and put it in my system with a 900Mhz P3. All went well but the BIOS was an old F3 version so I selected to update it using @BIOS and it...

This is my first NEW computer build. I have put many together from piles of parts. I bought gigabyte because I had a GA-6BXC that ran rock solid forever. Just want to say Thank You to all of you whose experience helped me through this project. Got my shinny new GA-8KNXP mobo last Tuesday, P4 back...

"DarkNoise" wrote in message ... First off, I know it's an ooooold board, but I'm trying to piece together scraps that were given to me for free so that some college students I know can at least type up their...

Hello, i read that the K8VT800 Pro uses the same RealTek Soundchip ALC658 like the K8NNXP or the K8VNXP. From this boards I know, that the sound is good (test in c't magazin). On the other side I read from a user of the K8VT800 Pro, that he bought PCI soundcard because he wasn't satisfie by the...

Hi Im tired of ASUS after alot of problems and I have ordered a new mainboard, GA-7N400Pro2. So Im not a professional , I will us it together with my Gigabyte Radeon 9700Pro, Athlon XP2200 , 1024MB RAM . Anyone with experience of this mainboard? Thanks balo

I've just installed a GA-8KNXP (Rev 2) and was thinking of upgrading my existing memory to a couple of DDR 400 512 MB sticks from Crucial. After I input my mobo details at their website, it came up with three different options for the 512MB modules and now I'm not sure which one I should...

Hi all, How do I enable SMART for the above motherboard? I believe both my hard drives are SMART compatible. The hard drives are Seagate ST38011A and Maxtor 6Y120PO. Thanks in advance.

Just built up a new system and can't get any AGP graphics boards to work. During post I get 1 long and 2 short beeps, and no picture. When I insert a PCI video board everything is fine. The two AGP boards I tried were Matrox Marvel G450 eTV and Asus V7700 Pro Deluxe. Any Ideas?

Hi, I've got a Gigabyte GA-7VRXP with an Athlon XP 2400. I was trying to put a temperature sensor onto my heatsink/fan today when something happened. Everything seemed to be powering up fine, when I smelled something burning and the sysytem powered off. I haven't been able to boot since. I don't...

Can someone kindly post me the official Gigabyte list of memory which is recommended for use with the GA-7N400 pro2 board. For some reason my PC can't download the user manual (in pdf format) from Gigabyte's website so I can't see what is written there. I am thinking of using Crucial PC3200...

I'm currently using a SCSI drive to boot into Window 2000. I have a new Maxtor 7Y250M0 SATA drive I'd like to start using at full capacity of 250 GB for storage. From Disk Management, the drive is recognized as having 128 GB which I've formatted as NTFS, after which the OS recognizes as 127 GB...

Hello Friends, I just rebuilt the system above for somone, and when you tell the system to shutdown... it shuts off. for about 4 seconds, then it powers itself up again. I have not seen this happen before. Is there some magic APM setting in the BIOS that will make or prevent this

Hi, My motherboard is a Gigabyte 8SIMLA with Q-Flash "... a pre-O.S. BIOS flash utility enables users to update its BIOS within BIOS mode, no more fooling around any OS." I want two things. One, Gigabyte should employ someone who is competent with both computers and English.