Hi, I'm running 2 SATA drives, a 250gb and a 160gb using 2 of the 4 SATA connectors on the k8nf-9 mobo. I have a removable SATA rack with another 160gb that I'm planning on using as a backup drive. When I installed the rack, I plugged the purple cable into the third SATA slot. When I just had a...

Crucial says the correct memory is 2.2v but Gigabyte says 1.8v. Do I take Crucial's word for it? Does this have something to do with the issue I've read about where one has to initially boot the memory with 1.8v memory, then increase the voltage in the bios, then install the 2.2v memory? In short,...

There is only one system fan connection, ok, no biggie. But what is the power fan plug for? My ignorance is showing..what is a power fan? Also, using a temperature gun, my Northbridge heatsink reads 58 deg C, the Southbridge is about the same. Seems kinda warm to me. TIA

My DS3 has begun this habit of switching the fans from full on to QST every 3 seconds. In other words, the QST will begin PWMing (my fan LEDs flash at about 15Hz) for 2 seconds then the lights will go to full brightness for 1 second, then it will PWM again. I had to turn QST off completely...

I have a 965P-DS3 motherboard and I can't get my audio input on the back of it to work. I also don't have a mic-input in the back either that works. Gene

Hello All, I have a GA-8I915P Duo Pro motherboard and am looking for the audio drivers for VISTA (32bit) I have spent an hour or so looking for them via Google without luck If someone could point me in the right direction it would be most appreciated Thanks in advance

Hi, I have a very strange problem. My setup is an E4300, GA-965P-DQ6, Leadtek PX7950GT 512, 2Gb of Corsair XMS2 ram (800/6400 and 5-5-5-12 timings) with a 500W PSU. If I alter the FSB or PCI-E speed at all, even if I do not change it from default (200 and 100 respectively), when I save the changes...

Just installed a 965P-DS3 (rev 3.3) motherboard. I noticed that in both the BIOS "PC Health Status" and in EasyTune 5 (build 2006.05.25 from the CD - the version on Gigabyte's server doesn't read the CPU frequency), the CPU temperature is always lower than the System temperature - right now the...

Is there a clock generator that works with the V1 of the 965P-DS3 from within Windows? -- Phil

Hy at everyone. Yesterday I've assemled my new PC (all new) with gigabyte 965P-DS3 , but I've got some problem. The Samsung 320GB -SataII HD- have a strange behaviors ; some times it hang , sometimes are very slow (4 Mb/sec HDTUNE) and sometimes my xp sp2 freeze with BSOD. My RAM it's ok (full...

After spending a lot of time rigging a long-enough data cable to reach from the mainboard's connector to the top of the case where my 3.5 floppy drives reside, I see no way in the BIOS setup to use more than one floppy drive! Am I missing something? -- Thanks, tbl

Is there information to be gleaned from the "model" numbers Gigabyte puts on its mainboards? -- Thanks, tbl

I Installed CPU (E6700) and cooler, power supply (Seasonic S12-650) , and plugged in power connectors (24 pin main, ATX 12V 2x, and PCIE 12V). I also plugged in pc speaker. I turned on and the board goes into a loop where it emits as series of very rapid beeps, followed by a shutdown (case fans...

This ia another post of my experiences with my new GA-965P-DS3 board. These are mostly Windows installation notes. My system has two SATA hard drives (being used as standard drives in a non-RAID mode) and two IDE optical drives (DVD burners). Generally, the board is working well and I'm happy...

Hi, I am using two sata hdd's as my main drives. Also have a couple of DVD's burners and an IDE HDD for backup use. I have the bios set for sata and to boot scsi. What bugs me is it does an IDE scan, finds nothing and boots up which adds time to the boot process. Can the scan be stopped? Rudy

I've just bought a base unit of a work mate containing the above motherboard, installed WinXP SP2b and trying to install the drivers from the nVIDIA nForce2 Series Utility CD (Version 1.0) On pages 89/90 of the manual, it lists drivers that can either be installed manually, or via "Express...

I've tried every which way to update the BIOS on my GA-K8NXP-SLI board to enable me to upgrade to an AMD dual core cpu. @BIOS is very flaky and when it does succeed the computer gives long beeps ie the bios is frizzed. Luckily dual bios means I can go back to F6 version and try again. Making a...

I see different versions of this motherboard. Some of the online retailers have great prices but don't tell the version. What is the difference between the versions? I thought it was just the BIOS version but I've been told it's more than that. Thanks, Joel

I have the GA-M55Plus-S3G board that has front panel sound connection for 8 channel sound, but my case has plugs for 6 channel sound, so is there a way to make it work? all the plugs are individual, not one solid connector if that helps? Strut

I recently installed this motherboard (GA-MA69VM-S2) and it runs well. However, when it first boots up, I see this message:"K8 NPT DATA CHANGE PLEASE INPUT TO DMI" Does this mean anything to anyone? I have searched the web and so far have found nothing useful. Thanks!