I am considering upgrading my PC next month but would first like to
get a better GFX card in. My current M/Board is:

I am plugging in a MSI TV@nywhere Master into my AUX/IN
socket on the motherboard. I keep getting a loud hiss from my speakers when
I boot up. If I unplug the cord, the hissing stops. When I go into the
volume control properties I don't have a AUX/IN in the volume controls. I

Has anyone had any problems with the built in Network connector?
I recently upgraded my mobo to the 7N400-L, all works very well but the
networks drops out a lot and after many days of re-installing drivers
etc I find that the connection socket seems to be to problem, I re-

I have two Segate SATA drives running a Raid 0 striped.  I just bought two
Maxtor SATAs and would like to add them.  I have the daughter board that
allows more SATA connections for this board and the cables.  My question is
this.  If I put them in and format them, can I add them to ...

Now that I have finished my new PC I am concerned with backing up the
system portion of my 2 SATA Raid 0 drives to a different IDE drive. Will
Ghost do it or is there a way for the XP Pro back-up program to do this. I
am not interested in loss of data just catastrophic failure ...

I have a 8INXP motherboard and I am running RAID 1  with 2 Maxtor 80G off
the Promise ATA133 RAID Controller and one 40G Seagate off the Silicon Image
SATA Controller.
If I am creating a ghost image and saving it to a partition on a Promise

just built a PC using teh Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 motherboard.
Everything running well and my only problem is that I can't install
the free Norton Internet Security 2003 software that comes with it.
Windows XP refuses to boot up after the installation.

I have a Gigabyte GA-7VT600 F8 motherboard with Realtek AC97 sound on it.
I also have a complete (higher end) surround sound system sitting next to it...
What would I need to connect this for games and DVD playback?
The outputs on my motherboard are just the 3 mini jacks.

I do not know if this was always a problem but recently I decided to use the
Hibernate function of Windows XP and found that when booted from my SCSI
Raid-0 drive, I get Stop Error 0x000000D1 associated with SCSIPORT.SYS when
attempting to go to Hibernate mode. On same system, same ...

What is CPU thermal Throttle? (advanced chipset w/ CTRL/ F1)
HC

This weekend I finally got the last parts home so I could start building my
new computer:
Gigabyte 7N400 Pro2, nForce2, Dual Bios.
AMD Barton 3200 +

Which mainboard would be best and cheapest for my new Athlon 2000 XP
processor? I am worried abt the onboard graphics engine - I have had
bad experiences with SIS in the past especially on Linux. I am comfy
with Nvidia. Does Gigabyte have mainboards with Nvidia GPUs for Athlon

I got a new case the other day. Instead of having a 3 slot plug for
the Power LED it has two single slot plugs. Of course the board is
designed for 3 (as all of the other ones I've ever seen have), so I
have an open pin. The board will not power up, and I suspect this is

Anyone using Easytune 4? I have Pent4 3.0 with 800mhz bus.
what kind of numbers should I have in Easytune4 in the bus speed
column. How do you know what to put in those places? I would like to get the
most out of this board and processor but I have no idea what to put in those

Mobo:  GA-8KNXP non-Ultra v1
Last week I posted here asking about the best method for replacing my Maxtor
PATA C: drive with a SATA by cloning from Norton Ghost 2003.
I downloaded the ICH5R driver v3.5.2.2654 from the Gigabyte site and ran it,