Hi, I am interested in getting a new system together. I am strapped for budget. So I dont want to get in on the 64ish stuff. I am considering: 1 Gigabyte 7N400Pro2 Motherboard 1 AMD AthlonT XP 2800+ Processor Retail (Barton Core) 512M PC3200 DDR RAM Kingmax Can anyone advise whther this is a...

FWIW a friend and I have found an issue with my 7N400 Pro2 Rev 2 and his 7N400-L when trying to run 2 x 512mb sticks of PC3200 in dual channel in DIMM slots DDR1 & DDR3. Very unstable. If you use slots DDR1 & DDR4 both boards run solid as a rock in dual channel. Experienced this when using a...

Hi All Again, Just installed the motherboard in my system and when it boots up all i am getting is the boot up sequence followed by 5 shortish beeps. I have assertained that this is a cpu error, but i cant figure out why? I do know that the motherboard is setup to auto detect the CPU but it...

I had to go back to the FH BIOS, please note you must flash both the main and backup BIOS when reverting. I tried a fresh install hoping that would help the bootup lag...no help at all. It is without doubt a BIOS issue as the FH BIOS, which i have now reverted to, work perfectly fine. When i...

I've just tried adding a 512MB stick to my board. Couldn't get it to work, either on its own or with the 256MB of PC2100 already present. Tried both performance and fail-safe settings. The manual suggests it should work but implies performance could unreliable. Has anyone else managed to get a...

Anyone try the new BIOS (FI) for the Rev. 2.0 8KNXP? I put it in and couldn't get my machine to boot properly (so I returned to the FH BIOS). My boot order is (1) floppy, (2) CD-ROM, (3) hard drive. I have 2 Plextor ATAPI CD-ROM drives. With the FH BIOS, all is well. If there is a bootable...

I installed the FI BIOS for the GA-8KNXP mobo, revision 2.1 There is now a huge bootup lag that i never had before with the FH BIOS. My two SATA Raptors running in RAID 0 appear to be taking ages to boot from, a good 30 seconds...never had this problem since i upgraded to FI. I'll try a fresh...

http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS_GA-8KNXP%20(Rev%202.0).htm http://www.giga-byte.com/Download/Download.asp?DownloadPath=/MotherBoard/FileList/BIOS/bios_8knxp2_fi.exe

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I recently purchased a second hand GA 7N400 Pro of e-bay, which turn out to be faulty. When i set it up and turn it on it will not post, but there are no error beeps or anything. I know all the parts i have put in are OK. I have tried just connecting the processor and fan, and going from...

Just a note for anyone wanting to remove Xpress Recovery from their hard drive, so you won't have to repeat the same research as I did: I experimented with Gigabyte's Xpress Recovery utility (included in the BIOS of my 7N400Pro2 mb) shortly after I installed my new WinXP system. It's supposed to...

Just curious if there was anyone in Australia that had one of these for sale, preferably in Sydney? Perhaps have one left-over from a set-up where you didn't need to install it. If you do, please drop me an email. I need one for my 8S651M-RZ Only found a couple of online retailers in Australia,...

Some new driver...

I have decided to build a system on a GA-7VT600 with the amd athlon 3200 barton 400mhz cpu with kimgston 512 ram ddr pc 3200 and ati radeon 9600 video card 8x agp. I will install windows xp. Is this a good setup? It is for a church office that uses many applications. Thanks

brand new w/processor will warm up ,board and drive will light,video card ok but ???????any suggestioni'm using a duron 900 level4 200 fsb and a 100 clock setting on board.all i hear is a clicking from speakers.any ideas?thanks,gk

Im upgrading a system from AMD 1.4 Asus board to AMD 64 and K8NS Pro motherboard. 2 IDE harddrives Non-raid(IDE1 slot) with windows xp already installed; 1 DVD R/W, 1 CDROM (IDE2 slot). Did the OPtimized setup save. System starts booting OK. Initially it lists all the IDE devices correctly but...

Hiya All, Ive just ordered a new mboard GA7N400 Pro 2, and i am just wondering if my graphic card will be okay in it. It is a LeadTek A250 TDH, Geforce 4 Ti4600, im only wondering because it says something about 1.5v at the beginning of the manual, and i cant find out how much voltage this card...

can anyone help me w/ cpu compat. as the manual states amd athlon duron 256k/64k level2 cachc on die supports 500mhz - 1ghz`and faster.i tried a new duron 900mhz 200fsb cpu and it won't work.do you think the cpu is bad or do i have to buy a cpu w/ level2 cache only with a 100 fsb.the mb is...

I can't sim to enable S.M.A.R.T. hard monitor for a GA-7VT600 1394 motherboard. Does any one know how? Please help, just lost one HD B/C I could enable S.M.A.R.T. HD monitor. :)

As header, the Gigabyte website seems to be worse than useless with lots of broken links and 404 errors. I can't find a site that hosts the files themselves, they usually link to the (non-existant) Gigabyte site. I built my system yesterday using this motherboard. Solved the usual problems (thanks...