SINXP-1394 MB from Gigabyte, anyone else have this?

[Xanupox]

http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Pr ... ltra2).htm

I picked up this motherboard for my next PC, but am having OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS of problems. I know there are two revisions out on this board due to a Hyperthreading problem but I have the newest version.

Anyone else had problems with it locking/freezing up after playing 3D games? I had to RMA mine back and am waiting for a response to what may have caused it.

I tried all kinds of things from RAM to Video cards, after swapping out 6 various DDR modules and 3 video cards it still froze up during 3D play or demo loops, (Quake3).

**If they do not fix it and have it back within a reasonable amount of time, I will have to start the "shock and awe" campaign for Aranewb...**

Anyone have any info on this board?

[noel]

{Insert joke about sending air force buddies to their factory here}

[Tegellan]

lolz

[Trek]

I have the same problem when I put my 9700 in my Soyo board and run XP, sucks.

[Pilsburry]

No idea, I try and stick with asus whenever possible, because mootherboards are a bitch to trouble shoot due to the fact you have to disconnect EVERYTHING to swap a tester in.


I did have a problem with my asus MB once, whenever I tried to copy files across my network (including internet piped in across my network) it would hang my machine after a few megs....it turned out I needed upgraded drivers for the VIA Apollo chipset or something like that that was on the motherboard, ASUS had those drivers included in thier newest drivers for download.

This is why I don't buy the latest and greatest...because if i have an issue likelyhood someone else had the same issue and they corrected it are better the older a product gets. Of course this being a motherboard you can't really wait too long.

Maybe you'll get lucky and they will figure it's just a driver issue...but it will probably be months hehe. By then there will be a newer model out or the price on that model will be reduced.

[Xanupox]

After sending it back to Monarch Computer in Tucker GA, it was determined to be a bad mb.

They tried several things from ram, video, non-raid hardrives, other hardrives with xphome/xp-pro, new bios, etc.

Last thing they checked was the MB itself, so I got a new MB and a new Tyan Tachyon 9700 Pro, which is better than the stock ATI 9700 pro that I had... (they broke my ATI 9700 pro while fixing it heh)