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Replacing motherboard: Gigabyte 7VT600 1394 for 7VAXP?
Greetings. My PC recently died on me, and I've diagnosed it as a bad
motherboard. My previous board was a Gigabyte 7VAXP. Looking around briefly, it looks like I could still get a direct replacement, but for about half the price I could get a 7VT600 1394, which has all the functions I need (I never used the RAID or overclocking features on the 7VAXP). It appears that the chipset cooler I have on the KT400 will fit the KT600 just fine, so my big question is this: can I drop in the 7VT600 as a replacement for the 7VAXP and reasonably expect it to work? If not, what kind of problems am I likely to see? Thank you, David Murphy |
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operating system will balk if the chipsets are different.....if your
running XP then do a repair install after the replacement. you could always have something go cockeyed when dabbling in the swap. make sure your connections are solid and that your memory timings on the new boards default settings will work with your memory and your memory will function in the new board. Check the defaults for your video also. "David Murphy" wrote in message om... Greetings. My PC recently died on me, and I've diagnosed it as a bad motherboard. My previous board was a Gigabyte 7VAXP. Looking around briefly, it looks like I could still get a direct replacement, but for about half the price I could get a 7VT600 1394, which has all the functions I need (I never used the RAID or overclocking features on the 7VAXP). It appears that the chipset cooler I have on the KT400 will fit the KT600 just fine, so my big question is this: can I drop in the 7VT600 as a replacement for the 7VAXP and reasonably expect it to work? If not, what kind of problems am I likely to see? Thank you, David Murphy |
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wrote in message . ..
I just had a GA-7VRXP rev. 2 board go belly up on me. Bad caps. It's at Gigabyte now getting warranty work. I couldn't wait the weeks for the repair so I got a GA-7VT600-L and dropped it in. Just had to install a newer version of the VIA 4in1 drivers and the new lan drivers and I was good to go. just make sure you remove any old stuff you no longer need. A reboot into safe mode is always good for finding and deleting ghosted devices in device manager. Thanks for the reply, but I've discovered I have another problem. I run Windows 98 SE, and it appears it's no longer supported in many new chipsets. Out of curosity, what do you run? XP? Looks like I may just have to find another 7VAXP. I need to get back up and running ASAP. Thanks again, David Murphy |
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