I expect to purchase this motherboard, but am unsure about whether I can use an Enermax 450 Watt power supply I happen to have in hand. I don't plan to overclock the board or use it for gaming. The cards are likely to be a modest audio and wifi card, and there will be one or two SATA hard disks....

I did this backup when I first installed Vista with all of the drivers & updates installed. I booted from the mb disk, backed up, and all went fine...or so it appeared. Today I decided to test it by hitting "F9" while in the POST screen. Nothing happened. Tried it again, and again. F9 does...

Motherboard MA78G-DS3H 1 year old, about 7 months only in daily use. Since yesterday I hear a squeaking, whistling sound with constand frequency from the motherboard. At first I was afraid the sound would announce impending harddisk death but definitely the sound does not come from any moving...

I want to build an inexpensive system and have been looking at the MA785GM. When you go online to someone like NewEgg, you invariably see all the people that hate the board. This is true for every motherboard under $100 from any manufacturer. It is making me crazy. Any recommendations for a low...

Hi i have this mainboard : gigabyte p55-usb3 i have some difficults to install win xp pro and recognize the memory ( 4096 and it recognizes only 3,4) So i was with bios F2 and i ve installed bios f4 ( downloaded on the server of gigabyte ) for install this bios i've used @bios and file...

When I enable AHCI in BIOS setup, it provokes a boot loop in which Windows (SP3) throws a Blue Screen Of Death for about a tenth of a second and then the boot process starts all over again. Driver issue? Somewhere I think I read something to the effect that AHCI had tb enabled when Windows was...

Brand new mobo: GA880-GA-UD3H CPU: Athlon II x3 455 Memory: 8GB (4GBx2) Patriot Sector 5 G 1066/1333EL (PGV34G1333ELK) When I boot, I get the error in the title: "The System has experienced boot failures because of overclocking" Except... I'm not overclocking, all memory timings are set to...

Windows XP Pro SP3 EP45-UD3L with 4 gigs Intel Quad CPU Q8400 @2.66GHz With a media server and a 4 security cameras hanging on this thing, it is about maxed out: 80-100% CPU usage. The Question: Is there anything I can do to get, say, 20+ percent more

A friend has a system based on a GA-78LMT-USB3 (mobo rev 5.0) and can't get any of his USB3 ports to work. The USB2s are fine, but the USB3s, both on the front panel and the back panel, are not. The ports have power -- when an MP3 player is plugged in, it charges. But there is no data...

I ordered Kingston HyperX 1GB KHX16000D3K3/3GX (DDR3 2000) x3 according to the mfg's QVL along with my UD4P motherboard. My problem is that the motherboard (with F8 BIOS) sets the memory frequency to 1066 by default...rather than 2000. My system is very stable here...no BSOD. But whenever I set...

At the moment I have a Gigabyte GA 8KNXP v2 with an ICH5R RAID 0 across two SATA WD Raptor 36gb HDDs for OS, progs and data. I also have a single WD Caviar 250gb HDD on the Sil3112 for backup. I want to get rid of the RAID and just use the raptors as two separate drives on the ICH5R, one drive...

Looking to upgrade to an AMD 64-X2 4400 and am seeking motherboard recommendations. It'll be a scratch build, with 2x SATA II x 250-300 GB in a RAID 0 configuration, a Lite-On DVD/CD burner, a floppy drive (just in case), 2 GIG of CAS 2-2-2-5 PC3200 DDR, PCI-X-16 NVidia card (not high end, as...

I'm getting ready to install WindowsXP on a system with a new GA-965P-DS3 motherboard. It has SATA-II ports (4) from the Intel ICH8 chip as well as SATA-II ports on Gigabyte's own IDE/SATA-II Controller. I'm only going to install one drive at this time. Are there any factors which might affect...

I have been up to recently a very happy Gigabyte user. My present board is GA K8NF 9 board It runs great under winxp. But I really would like to upgrade now to Vista as all my other hardware has drivers for Vista Well everything but my Gigabyte motherboard.

I just bought a GA-P35-DS3R motherboard with a 2G dualcore2 processor and 1G of memory. Everything was going fine until I installed the hard drive. My CD-ROM reader boots okay, but when I install an IDE hard drive on the IDE cable, my system hangs. This happened with 3 different IDE hard...

I have a Gigabyte 965P-DS3 motherboard which I bought over a year ago to support the Core2Due (2.4GHz). Back then, I paid quite a bit ($180, I think) for 2 pieces of Kingston KVR800D2N5, 512MB DDR2-800 memory. It has latency CL=5. I noticed I can get them now for under $30 a piece, but I...

I'm a newbie to gigabyte motherboards. So far I have had no problems with the board. I have a P35C-DS3R. My prior motherboards have been ASUS. And I was able to understand what the naming of a motherboard meant. Please correct me if I am wrong! P35C-DS3R

Hi I have searched around and did not find any overview. But I remember that 780G is a very low consuming chipset. Right ? I use it with a 4850E. How about Nvidia ? Are there any chipset for Intel that can compare with 780G concerning

"Mike Conrad" wrote: Hope somebody can help me here... I have just built a new system consisting of: Gigabyte GA-7NNXP mobo w/ Athlon XP 2600 chip GeForce Ti 4200 8X AGP video 1 GB PC 3200 DDR RAM Western Digital Caviar 80 GB 7200 RPM hard...

Earlier today I decided to do a comparison of the ITE Gigaraid IDE chipset vs a standard Promise UltraTX2 IDE PCI adapter. I did this after I read a few comments over the past few months that suggest the ITE Gigaraid chipset is very subpar. All of my tests were ran on a clean fresh Windows 2000...