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Old 11-16-2004, 07:08 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Question GIGABYTE GA-7N400 Pro V2.0

Hi, I have this motherboard, and cant get it going.

I have tried a AMD 2600 Sempron and a AMD 2000 Athlon
I have tried a Gigabyte R9700 Pro and a N Videa somthingorother 64Mb
I have tried 512Mb AData DDR400 and 256Mb DDR266 in various slots
I have tried 400W power supply and a 420W power supply(brand new)
I have tried 2 HD's with XP Pro and a HD that I tried to format to install XP fresh
I have tried 3 IDE cables, 2 new and 1 that I know is good
I have tried flicking all the switches on the Mobo and adjusting the FSB in the BIOS
Sata and Raid stuff is disabled
I think thats everything apart from resetting the comos, loading failsafe, setting what I think it should be, and a lot more bios bashing.

The problem is after the computer powers up, goes through the post, detects the drives OK, hangs for a bit then carries on until the Windows Start screen appears. Only lasts 1 or 2 seconds on the Windows Starting screen, then reboots.

I set it to not reboot on errors, the resulting blue screen said HD problems scan it. It has been scanned, as above tried another drive with a working XP install, and tried to install fresh on a third known good HD.
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Old 11-16-2004, 07:14 PM   #2 (permalink)
 
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How do you have the jumpers set on both primary and secondary IDE chains?

Great detail by the way...
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Old 11-16-2004, 07:24 PM   #3 (permalink)
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You set it up through the bios I've tried the lot 33 40pin, 66/133/? 80pin and auto.

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So, you have them as master/slave and CS if there is only one device on the chain?
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Old 11-16-2004, 07:37 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Only one HD in IDE1 and tried master, slave and cable select.

I have a DVD RW in IDE2 which is set to master.

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Try pulling the jumper out on both devices if they are the only devices in each chain...
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Old 11-16-2004, 08:03 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Just tried and still no go
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