GA-K8NF-9 and Bios update to GA-K8NF9 F2

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Al Gerardi wrote:

> The program Easytunes5 would work on this new motherboard. The CPU is an
> AMD 64 4000+. I contacted the Gigabyte support desk and they told me to
> download the updated Bios GA-K8NF9 F2 which I did. Everything work
> including the easytune5 but my Nvidia network controller failed to
> established a tcp connection. I rechecked the updated bios and hit
> Ctrl +F1 to see the advanced settings and the Nvidia network controller
> was enabled. All the led's on the router were lit as well and windows xp
> professional sd that the driver was operating ok, but still no tcp
> connection.
> Finally I flashed the bios back to the original bios GA-K8NF9 F1 and
> everything worked including the NVIDIA network controller but of course
> the program Easytune 5 did not.
> Has anybody else experienced this issue?
>
> Tks
> Al
Update
Sorry my original complaint was that Easytune5 WOULD NOT WORK.

Al

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

You are better off not using easy tune or the windows based bios updater
(@bios?).
The former will never give you noticeable performance boost, just some
larger numbers that make you think your system is running faster. 5% will
never be noticed by a user.
Further, last I looked, easytune requires Admin privileges to run. You
should not run your system as Admin - you are throwing out security if you
do.
@bios is risky at the best of times. Many people have trashed their
motherboards (many makes and models) by using such programs.

"Al Gerardi" <agerardi@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:_4CEd.8737$vM4.3823@bignews3.bellsouth.net...
> Al Gerardi wrote:
>
>> The program Easytunes5 would work on this new motherboard. The CPU is an
>> AMD 64 4000+. I contacted the Gigabyte support desk and they told me to
>> download the updated Bios GA-K8NF9 F2 which I did. Everything work
>> including the easytune5 but my Nvidia network controller failed to
>> established a tcp connection. I rechecked the updated bios and hit
>> Ctrl +F1 to see the advanced settings and the Nvidia network controller
>> was enabled. All the led's on the router were lit as well and windows xp
>> professional sd that the driver was operating ok, but still no tcp
>> connection.
>> Finally I flashed the bios back to the original bios GA-K8NF9 F1 and
>> everything worked including the NVIDIA network controller but of course
>> the program Easytune 5 did not.
>> Has anybody else experienced this issue?
>>
>> Tks
>> Al
> Update
> Sorry my original complaint was that Easytune5 WOULD NOT WORK.
>
> Al

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

Tks for the reply. Good point about running as Admin.....

Al


Mercury wrote:
> You are better off not using easy tune or the windows based bios updater
> (@bios?).
> The former will never give you noticeable performance boost, just some
> larger numbers that make you think your system is running faster. 5% will
> never be noticed by a user.
> Further, last I looked, easytune requires Admin privileges to run. You
> should not run your system as Admin - you are throwing out security if you
> do.
> @bios is risky at the best of times. Many people have trashed their
> motherboards (many makes and models) by using such programs.
>
> "Al Gerardi" <agerardi@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:_4CEd.8737$vM4.3823@bignews3.bellsouth.net...
>
>>Al Gerardi wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The program Easytunes5 would work on this new motherboard. The CPU is an
>>>AMD 64 4000+. I contacted the Gigabyte support desk and they told me to
>>>download the updated Bios GA-K8NF9 F2 which I did. Everything work
>>>including the easytune5 but my Nvidia network controller failed to
>>>established a tcp connection. I rechecked the updated bios and hit
>>>Ctrl +F1 to see the advanced settings and the Nvidia network controller
>>>was enabled. All the led's on the router were lit as well and windows xp
>>>professional sd that the driver was operating ok, but still no tcp
>>>connection.
>>>Finally I flashed the bios back to the original bios GA-K8NF9 F1 and
>>>everything worked including the NVIDIA network controller but of course
>>>the program Easytune 5 did not.
>>>Has anybody else experienced this issue?
>>>
>>>Tks
>>>Al
>>
>>Update
>>Sorry my original complaint was that Easytune5 WOULD NOT WORK.
>>
>>Al
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