Hello, I have a Gigabyte 8inxp mobo. This was one of the infamous boards that many of us waited and waited on and then paid $230 to $280 bucks for. I had heard good things about Gigabyte but never had bought one persoanlly. I had been going w\ MSI and they were always rock solid, rock! But i was rdy to upgrade and read and looked & looked and read and decided to go Gigabyte this time. I have to say Im not impressed with Gigabyte and especially not for the $255 i spent.
I have had problems with this board ever since I installed it. The problem is booting up and initially running some games. Nascar 2k2 would not come up at all. I tryed all kinds of different video driver's for it and nothing worked. I tryed 98se, Winme, XP and all of them the same result. I finally did get that working with XP & some older detonator driver. However, the system wont always boot up when it's cold or even if you have been using it 30 mins, 4 hrs, 12 hrs, whatever, if you do a restart then it may not boot up right. Sometimes it may boot cold "correctly" 4 times in a row and then it wont the next time. Same thing w\ a reboot... it might reboot fine 6 times and then you could do it 6 more and all those times it wouldnt reboot correctly.
The Gigabyte support bites too. I emailed them many times when I 1st encountered the problem but you can forget about them answering. I got tired of emailing them and just gave up. The system runs fine once you get booted up but I may have to turn the power switch off 3, 4, 5 times and then start to bring it up.
Any suggestions as to what the problem could be? I had posted here before about my problem but no one had encountered that problem I suppose, so I didnt get any feedback then & thought i'd try agn.
Im running XP Home professional ed. a P4, 2.53ghz\Kingston ddr 2100 ram @ a gig, PNY geforce 3 64MB video, ibm 7200 ide 120 gig HD,Iomega burner, aopen cd rom, 43.45XP Detonator drivers. I think that's all the vitals.
Thx for any feedback and help fellas
I have had problems with this board ever since I installed it. The problem is booting up and initially running some games. Nascar 2k2 would not come up at all. I tryed all kinds of different video driver's for it and nothing worked. I tryed 98se, Winme, XP and all of them the same result. I finally did get that working with XP & some older detonator driver. However, the system wont always boot up when it's cold or even if you have been using it 30 mins, 4 hrs, 12 hrs, whatever, if you do a restart then it may not boot up right. Sometimes it may boot cold "correctly" 4 times in a row and then it wont the next time. Same thing w\ a reboot... it might reboot fine 6 times and then you could do it 6 more and all those times it wouldnt reboot correctly.
The Gigabyte support bites too. I emailed them many times when I 1st encountered the problem but you can forget about them answering. I got tired of emailing them and just gave up. The system runs fine once you get booted up but I may have to turn the power switch off 3, 4, 5 times and then start to bring it up.
Any suggestions as to what the problem could be? I had posted here before about my problem but no one had encountered that problem I suppose, so I didnt get any feedback then & thought i'd try agn.
Im running XP Home professional ed. a P4, 2.53ghz\Kingston ddr 2100 ram @ a gig, PNY geforce 3 64MB video, ibm 7200 ide 120 gig HD,Iomega burner, aopen cd rom, 43.45XP Detonator drivers. I think that's all the vitals.
Thx for any feedback and help fellas
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