XP Installation on a GA8I915 Duo-A

Bought this board about 6 months ago from Newegg. I Installed XP Home
on it with no problem. Then, the sound's "magic jack" control panel
started reassigning my 5.1 speakers to other jacks. I upgraded the
bios to F5 hoping that that would fix the problem. Nope - so I plugged
in my old Audigy instead. Then I bought XP pro & decided to install
it. Wouldn't install. Either stopped at the GUI side of the
installation with a fatal error, or would stop recognizing the data
coming from the cd. Used 3 different cd drives, also tried to put my
XP Home back on. Same problem. Thought it was a SATA driver issue so
I F6'd during the installation, loaded up the drivers from Intel (then
just about every other driver that I could get from the Gigabyte cd).
Same problem. I'm convinced that it's an issue with this F5 version of
the BIOS. Haven't tried an earlier version yet - will do that tonight
after work.

Windows 2000 installs easily - no issues at all. Not even any need for
special drivers.

Anyone with similar problems out there? Fixes?

If you want to know what I'm running (keep in mind that I was able to
install XP on a SATA drive prior to my BIOS upgrade): 8I915 Duo-A
w/F5, P4 3.2ghz, 1gb Kingston DDR, WD160gb hd (although I'd also tried
it with a Maxtor 120gb SATA drive), Sapphire x600 on the pci-x bus, 1
NEC 2510 DVD-RW, 1 Mad Dog DVD-RW, and one external DVD-RW drive - all
3 failed at the same spots.

Next tests will be to attempt a roll-back of the bios and an
installation of XP on an alternate machine (to verify that I didn't get
a defective disk)

I'd test memory and reset the bios.
Sounds odd tho....

XP boot does thrash the system more than W2K.

Are all temps ok?

Is the PSU ok?

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Bought this board about 6 months ago from Newegg. I Installed XP Home
on it with no problem. Then, the sound's "magic jack" control panel
started reassigning my 5.1 speakers to other jacks. I upgraded the
bios to F5 hoping that that would fix the problem. Nope - so I plugged
in my old Audigy instead. Then I bought XP pro & decided to install
it. Wouldn't install. Either stopped at the GUI side of the
installation with a fatal error, or would stop recognizing the data
coming from the cd. Used 3 different cd drives, also tried to put my
XP Home back on. Same problem. Thought it was a SATA driver issue so
I F6'd during the installation, loaded up the drivers from Intel (then
just about every other driver that I could get from the Gigabyte cd).
Same problem. I'm convinced that it's an issue with this F5 version of
the BIOS. Haven't tried an earlier version yet - will do that tonight
after work.

Windows 2000 installs easily - no issues at all. Not even any need for
special drivers.

Anyone with similar problems out there? Fixes?

If you want to know what I'm running (keep in mind that I was able to
install XP on a SATA drive prior to my BIOS upgrade): 8I915 Duo-A
w/F5, P4 3.2ghz, 1gb Kingston DDR, WD160gb hd (although I'd also tried
it with a Maxtor 120gb SATA drive), Sapphire x600 on the pci-x bus, 1
NEC 2510 DVD-RW, 1 Mad Dog DVD-RW, and one external DVD-RW drive - all
3 failed at the same spots.

Next tests will be to attempt a roll-back of the bios and an
installation of XP on an alternate machine (to verify that I didn't get
a defective disk)

For anyone curious out there...

It was the bios upgrade. I put f4 back in and XP installed.

Since XP was installed before the upgrade, and even ran well after the
upgrade, such things as the memory were never considered. It was only
upon installation of the new OS that the problem developed. And, when
I found out that I couldn't put my old XP Home back on either then the
problem became serious.

I'm sending Gigabyte a note informing them of this problem, and warning
any on this ng that are considering this board to be careful.

This was a "let's test the water. I'm not sure if I want to do this"
sort of board (with both pci-express & a sort of agp slot). The 7.1
Azalia sound system might have been ok if it had left my audio jacks
alone.


Mercury wrote:
I'd test memory and reset the bios.
Sounds odd tho....

XP boot does thrash the system more than W2K.

Are all temps ok?

Is the PSU ok?

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Bought this board about 6 months ago from Newegg. I Installed XP
Home
on it with no problem. Then, the sound's "magic jack" control
panel
started reassigning my 5.1 speakers to other jacks. I upgraded
the
bios to F5 hoping that that would fix the problem. Nope - so I
plugged
in my old Audigy instead. Then I bought XP pro & decided to
install
it. Wouldn't install. Either stopped at the GUI side of the
installation with a fatal error, or would stop recognizing the data
coming from the cd. Used 3 different cd drives, also tried to put
my
XP Home back on. Same problem. Thought it was a SATA driver issue
so
I F6'd during the installation, loaded up the drivers from Intel
(then
just about every other driver that I could get from the Gigabyte
cd).
Same problem. I'm convinced that it's an issue with this F5
version of
the BIOS. Haven't tried an earlier version yet - will do that
tonight
after work.

Windows 2000 installs easily - no issues at all. Not even any need
for
special drivers.

Anyone with similar problems out there? Fixes?

If you want to know what I'm running (keep in mind that I was able
to
install XP on a SATA drive prior to my BIOS upgrade): 8I915 Duo-A
w/F5, P4 3.2ghz, 1gb Kingston DDR, WD160gb hd (although I'd also
tried
it with a Maxtor 120gb SATA drive), Sapphire x600 on the pci-x bus,
1
NEC 2510 DVD-RW, 1 Mad Dog DVD-RW, and one external DVD-RW drive -
all
3 failed at the same spots.

Next tests will be to attempt a roll-back of the bios and an
installation of XP on an alternate machine (to verify that I didn't
get
a defective disk)

i am having the identical problem with that board only with a 36 gig
raptor.....had the same problem right outta the box so i installed
the f5 bios.... keep getting the "page falut in nonpaged area" error
screen as well as the problem copying some dll files....now im
currently rolling back to the f4 bios.....im really hopping this
works