*** Official Gigabyte 8KNXP/Ultra (875P) Thread ***

[BubbaMorg]

The SATA drives have their own style of power connector. Most drives come with an adapter, and some newer powersupplies come with the SATA power connection built into the PSU. In your case, I would just use round cables for the IDE and forget converting, I don't think you'll gain anything from it. I most definitely could be wrong though.

 

[daniel1113]

Originally posted by: BubbaMorg
The SATA drives have their own style of power connector. Most drives come with an adapter, and some newer powersupplies come with the SATA power connection built into the PSU. In your case, I would just use round cables for the IDE and forget converting, I don't think you'll gain anything from it. I most definitely could be wrong though.

I think you misunderstood my question. I know the difference between SATA and PATA hard drives, including the power connections. I do not need to use a converter since my hard drives are PATA. They will still run off of a standard molex connector. However, while looking at the various adapter cards out there, I noticed that there is a separate, smaller power connector that plugs into the PATA to SATA converter. Is this plug necessary, and if so, what is its purpose? To supply power to the converter card?

BTW, I'm not trying get a speed increase from these converters. I just want to clean up some of the cables in my case, especially near the IDE connectors on my motherboard. However, according to most reviews, the transfer speeds increased as a result of using a converter. I guess that will just be a little bonus if it happens for me too

 

[billyjak]

If your looking at This one the extra little connector is the power supply cable to the adaptor and the other 2 are molex extensios to plug into a standard 4 pin molex connector.

 

[twodogs]

Originally posted by: BubbaMorg

Do you get any beeps from the board?

No beeps at all. The Ram LED comes on and the fans spin up, but the HD does not spin up, the monitor will not come out of sleep mode, and my POST card BIOS light never comes on. I'm trying to narrow it down between the CPU and the board (blown BIOS)? I replaced the CMOS battery also, no change.

BubbaMorg.
This sounds like the exact problem i had with my first KNXP.It was the dual power module.Try removing it. According to my local PC shop they've had a few of them like that.(Australia).

 

[Badash7]

I just had a second nvidia 5900 ultra die while using it with the 8knxp ultra rev 1. Now I'm wondering if it's the cards or the AGP slot voltage or frequency. Anyone else had video cards die on them with this board?

 

[Allen7]

Originally posted by: Badash7
I just had a second nvidia 5900 ultra die while using it with the 8knxp ultra rev 1. Now I'm wondering if it's the cards or the AGP slot voltage or frequency. Anyone else had video cards die on them with this board?

I have used ATI 9500, 9700Pro, 9800, 9800Pro with my rev.1 board and everyone of them survived without incident. But there were some compatibility issues with 9700Pro though.

 

[BubbaMorg]

Originally posted by: twodogs

Originally posted by: BubbaMorg

Do you get any beeps from the board?

No beeps at all. The Ram LED comes on and the fans spin up, but the HD does not spin up, the monitor will not come out of sleep mode, and my POST card BIOS light never comes on. I'm trying to narrow it down between the CPU and the board (blown BIOS)? I replaced the CMOS battery also, no change.

BubbaMorg.
This sounds like the exact problem i had with my first KNXP.It was the dual power module.Try removing it. According to my local PC shop they've had a few of them like that.(Australia).

Nope, not the problem....don't have it to begin with

Thanks for the idea, though.

 

[BubbaMorg]

Originally Posted by daniel1113
I think you misunderstood my question

Yep, I misunderstood it...see, told you I might well be wrong

Anyway, for everyone else and the problems I was having with my board:

Hi Nova, I was wondering if the motherboard ended up being the problem. I currently have a box with the same issue and am considering what to pursue next. The video card is fine. The power supply seems to be fine according to my PCI POST card, but the BIOS seems to not work at all. Let me know how it went. If anybody else would like to chime in, that would be great.

No beeps at all. The Ram LED comes on and the fans spin up, but the HD does not spin up, the monitor will not come out of sleep mode, and my POST card BIOS light never comes on. I'm trying to narrow it down between the CPU and the board (blown BIOS)? I replaced the CMOS battery also, no change.

DPS2? Nope, not the problem....don't have it to begin with.

The board was shot...fixed it by installing an Asus board (P4P800). Everything is working without a glitch. I want to see if Gigabyte can fix this board, if so, I'll build another machine with it. I bought it second hand on eBay, so I don't know what kind of water that lands me in. I would pay to get it fixed, too, if it wasn't crazy expensive. Not sure what went wrong, but the POST card says the BIOS is not being read, which to me, means either the chips got really corrupted or there is something wrong in one of the chipsets (my CPU is fine in the new board, P4C 2.4GHz). I might take a swing at it myself if Gigabyte doesn't...graduated from eletronics tech school, might just put it to use, though it's been five years and only worked in my field for three months.

So next question...how is Gigabyte with RMA calls, and what information do they want? Will they take just a white box back or does it need retail packaging? Just want some specifics from those that have dealt with Gigabyte directly.

 

[Psyclone]

From the RMA form that I was sent to fix my in warranty board. Regarding fees :

If out of warranty, the INITIAL repair charge will be $45.00 USD per board. Additional fees for parts may be assessed if required. Please PROVIDE Proof-of-Purchase. A broken/removed seal/serial number on the PCB board will void the warranty.

 

[BubbaMorg]

Originally posted by: Psyclone
From the RMA form that I was sent to fix my in warranty board. Regarding fees :

If out of warranty, the INITIAL repair charge will be $45.00 USD per board. Additional fees for parts may be assessed if required. Please PROVIDE Proof-of-Purchase. A broken/removed seal/serial number on the PCB board will void the warranty.

Thanks a lot! That answers my question...starting to look worth fixing, think I'll give it a shot.

 

[Wamp]

Folks,

I have a problem and a some questions I need help with. Here's the back ground info. I'm upgrade my PC with a 8KNXP rev 2 motherboard, 3G P4 and Corsair TWINX1024R-3200C2PT memory. Got my parts put it together and guess what PC wont post to the bios it just beeps at me. Send motherboard back to newegg, new motherboard samething. Send CPU back, you guessed it same thing. I talk a buddy of mine in to letting me use this PC at spare parts and find that my memory wont work in my motherboard but works fine in his. So I send the memory back, just received new memory and guess what it still beeps. I've replaced the power supply because that what beeping is supose to mean(WRONG). But I now own a 500 Watt power suppy I don't need. I also installed some value Kingston memory to tie me over to my GOOD memory came back from newegg. Kingston memory works great, PC works great. Corsair memory still wont post no matter what I do. I've read 10,000 forums on memory setting and nothing seems to work.

This is not that hard, anybody have any ideals? If you can help me fix this I will send you a 6 pack of beer FedEx, from my office of course. (Must be over 21)

Thank in advance.

 

[LaughnCynic]

Originally posted by: Wamp

I'm upgrade my PC with a 8KNXP rev 2 motherboard, 3G P4 and Corsair TWINX1024R-3200C2PT memory.

Ok, a guess:

I don't think this board supports registered memory. I know the specs say it supports ECC but in looking at Gigabyte's page for the board and the manual for my own rev 1.0 version of this board I see no listed support for registered memory modules. I think you'd have better luck with TWINX1024-3200C2[PT] modules.

You might seek further info at Corsair's support forum.

 

[twodogs]

Just thought i'd update you guys on my previous post and Bios F8 giving me a "unknown hardware" issue.

I mailed gigabyte with the issue and they sent me a F9a Bios, that fixed the problem.

 

[Psyclone]

This board has been notorius from day one for having issues with memory though I would have thought they would have addressed them by now, particularly on a rev 2 board. I had the exact same issue with my board and Geil memory. That beep you hear is definitely memory, even though the closest possible match, according to the manual, is that it's a power failure, I was so convinced that I purchased a second brand new power supply to test it and it still beeped the same beeps. Unfortunately I didn't buy the board from newegg and the place I bought it from was gonna charge me some hefty fees if I sent it back to them and they tested it and found it to be a working board so my only free option was an rma to gigabyte.

They got the board and put Kingston HyperX memory in and it fired up just fine. I ended up returning the Geil memory and buying Kingston HyperX and haven't had any issues since. In some cases a BIOS upgrade remedied some of the memory issues on the rev 1 board. I suggest getting known working memory.

Good luck...

 

[sillen]

New bios released today.. says it was releasted 25th last month but the bios wasnt on their homepage yesterday but today it is =)

F9 2003/12/25

Support Prescoott C0 (0F33) setpping CPU and updated CPU ucode to CPUID=0F33 PatchID=07

Fixed ICH5 SATA RAID can¡¦t disable issue

Fixed NT4.0 can¡¦t install with Prescott CPU

 

[twodogs]

Yes, I have been trialing this bios for several weeks for Gigabyte.
Had no problems at all.

 

[Hans5849]

Problems:
The onboard sound doesn't work at all
It won't turn off, i set XP to shutdown, it turns off and turns back on

i think i have the latest bios, but then i run CPUz it says i have F5

 

[sumrtym]

CPUZ gets it's info from windows. Windows has a bug that if you're using RAID and update the BIOS, that new BIOS version isn't read by XP. If it says F9 during bootup, rest assured it's F9 despite what windows and CPUZ reports.