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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)
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)