Well, I just got off the phone with the tech support person from Gigabyte regarding the shutdown problem when having a FSB greater than 125MHz or so. Well, he said and I quote, "We don't care about overclocking". When I asked if it might be fixed in a future BIOS, he said, "Hey, I seriously doubt it". Then I asked, if you don't care about overclocking then why do you provide all the options and advertise it as a great board for this purpose. He said, "I don't know, thats that marketing people not me, we don't care about overclocking".
I love this board except for that weird problem. When I select restart from windows in shutsdown and hangs and I have to hit the power to restart it.... then it is fine.
If I shudown from windows, the next time I boot it hangs and I have to turn it off from this state using the powersupply switch, then it boots fine.
Is that annoying or what?!? Don't have to do any of this at normal bus speeds.
I am about to send this thing back and maybe take the restocking fee and get a P4S333 or P4B266. Both of which don't seem to have these problems and overclock well, maybe even better since I need about 1.75V to get to 2.4 stable with my 1.8a. They don't have the USB2.0, RAID, or onboard LAN but they are cheaper.
Any advice, rude remarks, flames are welcome.... ok, maybe I would settle for just advice. I purchased from MWave, I consider this board defective but will they and will they credit me the full amount if I buy a different board off of them? I still have a few weeks to decide based on their 30 day return policy.
I love this board except for that weird problem. When I select restart from windows in shutsdown and hangs and I have to hit the power to restart it.... then it is fine.
If I shudown from windows, the next time I boot it hangs and I have to turn it off from this state using the powersupply switch, then it boots fine.
Is that annoying or what?!? Don't have to do any of this at normal bus speeds.
I am about to send this thing back and maybe take the restocking fee and get a P4S333 or P4B266. Both of which don't seem to have these problems and overclock well, maybe even better since I need about 1.75V to get to 2.4 stable with my 1.8a. They don't have the USB2.0, RAID, or onboard LAN but they are cheaper.
Any advice, rude remarks, flames are welcome.... ok, maybe I would settle for just advice. I purchased from MWave, I consider this board defective but will they and will they credit me the full amount if I buy a different board off of them? I still have a few weeks to decide based on their 30 day return policy.