I've had the Gigabyte 8SG667 board for two days now, and I occasionally experience the following:
Running under WindowsXP I've had to restart the system several times - due to several driver installations (== I've installed WindowsXp again!).
Sometime after the system shuts down, and before it begins to load (meaning: after boot) and shows the memory - it hangs.
That is: it passes the state where it says: "System health OK", but doesn't show other lines like: DDR400 and the harddisks.
This happened a couple of times - but not always.
Twice it happened that it managed to pass the memory tests (showed DDR400), but didn't show the harddisks (and hanged).
A normal boot says: "system health ok", then "DDR400", then the list of harddisks and CD-ROMs.
And finally - WindowsXp loads.
Has anyone experienced such behavior? How do I make it work?
I have the following:
Pentium 2.4B
Gigabyte 8SG667 (sis648)
GeForce2 GTS
Asus DVD (x16)
Teac burner (x40)
10Gigs WesternDigital HD
10Gigs IBM HD.
I've configured both Harddisks to work on the Primary IDE (WD - as Master, IBM - as Slave).
The Teac burner and Asus DVD reader are configured on the Secondary IDE (Teac - as Master, Asus - as Slave).
If you have version 2.0 of the 8sg667, I would first try boosting the voltage of the ddram to 2.6 or 2.7. I would also check your 12v and 5v rail readings in the bios hardware monitor. They should be between 11.7-12.1 and 4.9-5.05. What brand and wattage of power supply do you have?
I'll have to check the bios version (I'm currently at work...).
About the power supply, its: HEC 475DVD.
I haven't found the spec for it anywhere! But it cost me quite a bit.
That is to say: that the Computer case (COMPUCASE Midi Tower CI-6A19) originally came with HEC 300 (and I asked to replace it for a stronger power supply - supposedly HEC 475).
I'll write soon about the voltage level (if I'll find where to look for it in the Bios), Dashut.
I have this MB for a month, and still good so far. My system:
GA-8SG667
Corsair XMS 512MB DDR400 CAS 2
WD 80GB HD 8MB buffer
LiteOn 48x24x48x CD-RW
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB
Intel P4 2.4GHz
Okay here goes:
I didn't find the voltage level in the Bios. I guess that I don't have version 2.0 (that probably does have it).
However, I did reload optimized settings and reinstalled WindosXp.
I haven't experienced any problems since.
I've also added Radeon 9700 pro and Creative Audigy 2 Plat.
The memory I'm using is: Corsair XMS-512 C2 DDR400 (3200).
I also checked the parameters of my power supply, and I found that on the +12V rail (which is the most critical, since it holds the CPU and harddisks) the maximum current is 18A.