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

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...

http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS_GA-8KNXP%20(Rev%202.0).htm Download here, dated September 15th 2004: http://www.giga-byte.com/Download/Download.asp?DownloadPath=/MotherBoard/FileList/BIOS/bios_8knxp2_fj.exe Not tried them, i just HOPE they fixed the boot delay issue i...

Hello; I have a 8KNXP that is 1 1/2 years old and it appears that my USB prots are not 2.0. I assume this means I need a BIOS upgrade (I have version F5). I have a SATA mirrored SIL set. When I check the BIOS updates it says; ----------- Note! If your OS (like WinXP) is already installed on SATA...

My 2002-vintage computer has a recently-installed CPU and LCD display. The computer locks up with the display pivoted 90 degrees via irotate.exe while playing AVI files using Nero ShowTime, producing a medium-high-pitched sound. The lockup seems to happen only when the display is pivoted. Nero...

"Lem" wrote in message ... Approximately what would it cost to buy a seperate graphics card offering the same sort of quality as the integrated graphics on a quality motherboard like: Asus A7N8X-VM (nVidia) Asus A7V8X-VM (Via) ...

I just ordered an 8knxp, so i dont yet know whether i'm getting revision 1 or 2. Either way, I was planning on using my audigy mp3+ 5.1 card that I already had. Does anybody out there know whether the audigy mp3+ is a better card than the onboard sound chip? I assume so, I also imagine it would be...

Hello, I have a Gigabyte 7VRXP, bought in july 2002. No problems (except Top Performance won't work) and I'm quite happy with it. But after some searching I still cannot the answers to some questions. Maybe someone here can help me? 1. How can I see if I have the 1.0/1.1/2.0 version? The board...

Hi, I had to replace my GA-7N400-L1, useless after a bios update, with a GA-700N-L yesterday. I have an AMD 2600 CPU with supplied fan and heat sink on the machine. I was browsing through the posts here for any info on this later m/board and read about CPU temps.. I checked the temps on this...

Hi, I just put in a new mobo and cpu in my system. I'll give the specs below. When I boot up, it POSTs, properly detects my hard drives and cd-roms and then it goes to a prompt that tells me Windows did not properly load on the previous attempt. It asks me to select from normally starting...

I haven't been able to find a way to hibernate or suspend with this motherboard, running XP Pro. Is it simply not supported? TIA. Dan

Hello, I just bought a Giga-Byte GA-8GPNXP Duo motherboard and I am encountering some issues with my IDE drives. I connected: - 1 Maxtor 40GB hard-drive as master on the IDE2 connector - 1 Maxtor 40GB hard-drive as slave on the IDE2 connector - 1 Plextor PX-130A as master on the IDE3 connector -...

Dear Motherboard Gurus.... tell me if ... .... it would do any harm to plug in a CPU of a higher FSB rating than the MOBO is designed for ? My mobo has a fsb rating of 400MHz but my P4s rating is 800Mhz. I personally feel it woud do no (physical) harm except, perhaps, to 'pull down' the P4's...

Got a note from Gigabyte tech support saying that their old GA-6BXE motherboard does not support hard drives larger than 75 GB because of a limitation in the 440 BX chipset which it uses. Is this actually true? I have not come across a 75 GB limit. No, it isn't true and Gigabyte knows...

Anyone? I am still using F5, wondering if I should update. Thanks

I'm having problems adding an extra 512MB of memory to my 256MB GA-7VRXP W2K/W95 dual boot system and would appreciate some advice. I've tried three different types of memory, two lots of PC2700 and now a strip of PC2100 (Kingston branded). In each case the symptoms are the same; The BIOS...

I just purchased a new motherboard, CPU, and video card, built the system, ran memtest86 and I'm getting memory errors. I purchased: Athlon X64 3000+ CPU Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI Radeon X550 P180 Case From my old system I scavenged:

Guys, I've about had it with my choice in buying this motherboard. Either it stinks (which I don't think), is defective (possible) or I've goofed something. It has never felt any faster than my Athlon XP 1800+ system with 512k RAM and a Radeon 8500. I now have this board with a Radeon 9800 Pro...

Hey all, I am looking at helping my bro build a budget mid-range gaming PC for my niece. To keep costs down I was thinking of going the AMD route to get good performance for a lower cost. The last while I have been all Intel so I am out of the AMD and thought to pose the question to the...

I have two Seagate 160GB SATA HDDs in RAID-0 config on the same board. First drive is mapped to SATA Port 0 and the second one is mapped to SATA Port 1 (that's on the ICH5R Intel Chipset, not the Silicon Chipset). I'm not in the BIOS right now but there is an option to I believe under something...