has any one ever tried to use the spdif in option. mine just doesn't work.

has any one ever tried to use the spdif in option. mine just doesn't work.

My spec:

Athlon 2200+
GA-7VAXP
512mb pc2100
ati radeon 9700 pro
win xp

just upgraded to the radeon from a gf4 mx440. My system now locks whenever i try to play any game or benchmark test. i have heard it could be a problem with the bios settings/ the voltage going to the agp slot.
any help please...

I just recently bought a bunch of parts to build a new computer. I bought the GA-7VAXP board as my motherboard because they had ran out of the ASUS boards. I also bought:

2000 MHz Athlon XP processor
Radeon 9500 pro 128 MB video card
Soundblaster PCI 16 sound card
256 MB of Corsair DDR3200 @ 400 MHz RAM
80 Gb hard drive
Atapi 16x DVD rom
BCT 52x24x52x CD-RW
and a case with a 350 watt power supply

I put everything together and connected everything to its power supply and made sure all of the connections were ok. I then tried to install windows, but my cd drives aren't reading the cd. I have the hard drive in IDE connector 1 as the primary master. No matter where i plug the cd drive into, i always run into a problem. No instructions came with either of the cd drives and they didnt come with a disk either. I have also tried this with the dvd drive. Most of the time my computer wont even acknowledge that there is anything in the IDE slot, when I clearly put the IDE ribbon cable into the slot and the cd drive correctly. Sometimes, i get it to at least acknowledge that the drive is in, but then the computer will tell me that the device is not installed. I need the drive to put the windows cd into so i can install windows, but the drive will not read it. They both open and close fine, but they will not read a cd. The hard drive works fine under IDE slot 1.

Can someone please give me a step by step guide on how to correctly install a cd drive with this motherboard. I cant seem to get it right. Im sure there is something i have to alter in the BIOS that i dont know about. Any help is greatly appreciated..

I just switched the CD-RW to IDE connector 2 which is the one right below the hard drive, and instead of being the primary slave drive, the BIOS said that the CD drive was in the secondary slave drive, which is IDE slot 4. I dont know what is wrong with these IDE connectors, but the only one that seems to work correctly is slot 1.

PLEASE help!

Hi guys,

This is my first time being here. I just wanted to know what is the difference between the 7vaxp and 7vaxpu?....

Hi guys,

This is my first time being here. I just wanted to know what is the difference between the 7vaxp and 7vaxpu?....

Hi guys,

This is my first time being here. I just wanted to know what is the difference between the 7vaxp and 7vaxpu?....

Refuses to shut down, blue screen with error Driver_irql_not_less_or_equel. Then some kind of memory address with ACPI.sys involved. Sinds I set the system up it's been doing this, reinstalling XP-pro seems to have made no difference. No option in the bios to disable acpi.sys so now what? any ideas?

some ppl likes gigabyte somelieks asus some amd intel bla bla when u posting in here u must not choose a side be neutral and just try to fix those problems ppl having , pls dont try to prove that oh gigbyta perfect no problme omg its dope dont say that becasue most ppl do have problems
not onlyu gigabyte many others
my opinion about gigabyte its a great board but not for advabced users ppl who startimg to build and upgrade and expriencing on oc its ok board but for ppl who been doing this for years gigabyte not that great but however its the only board works good with ddr400 . i dont realy agreethat because all boards have conflict with kt400 its the chipset not the boards anyways i have gigabyte mobo right now and its ok but not great i get blue screens and errors and lock ups boot problems all kinda stuff well i have 5 more computers i have all kinds of boards too , but still i ask ppl in here and learn more so pls dont try to be cool or something and telling pll ur computer great ur lucky just try to help ... anyways gigabyte mobos do have problems!!!!!!!!!!!

just wondered, i think i striped my hard drives on my p.c.but the thing is its my 1st time so i need some help.i am running xp pro and when it came to the raid drivers on the install i picked the mb fast track now i think that means the mirrored raid but it shows up on the drives with 160 gig (my 2 80 gig'ers)if it was mirrored wouldnt it show up as a 80 gig???? plz help as i need to know b4 i put all my progs n stuff back on .
thanx paul

2100 xp
gigabyte board (u know the 1lol)
geforce 3 ti 200
2x 80 gig seagate barracuda
ddr333

I'm having drive problems also, like the guy above, but with a twist.

Here's my problem. I'm trying to set up 2 virgin harddrives as RAID stripped. I have them connected to IDE connectors 3 and 4 (the RAID controlled connectors). During boot up, the computer pauses and says press CNTRL-S or F4 to enter the RAID utility. But nothing happens if I hit CNTRL-S or F4. I cannot get the motherboard to enter the RAID utility. I don't ahve a drive in IDE 1 because I want to boot from RAID using only the 2x80 giggers that I got for RAID.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

well Dan,when i had attached the drives it came back with an unusual listing saying that my 2 80 gigs were now 2 35 gigs which i found very strange so i turned the ide cables so as ide 3 was now ide 4 and vice versa.no probs but still no joy on getting into the raid array.wot i then done was format both the drive indepedetly of each other (stand alone )and then done the raid .work fist time .might work 4 u give it a try
hope it works

Ok I just got my 9700 pro today, and I put it in got the new drivers from ATI and go to run 3d mark and on the dragen part it just freez's as if I was over clocking it, so about 30 min of missing with it I called ATI and thay told me to update my cheep set driver bios and so on nothing some thing I trying to it it 0.1+ volts that did not work and when I tryed to give it 0.2+ it just died on me..I have a good PSU 500W powmax and DDR 3200
any ideas ???


my sys AMD 2100+
gigabyte -ga-7vaxp kt 400


my 2700+ will be here wed.

I have read and seen in other posts that the 333MHz BUS chips (2600 and above) actually make the card more stable or remove the problem all together for some people, have you got the latest ATI driver update that supposedly clears a few problems as well. Either that or the card is a bad one.

Josh,

I had exactly the same problem regarding 3DMark 2001 SE freezing at the dragon section. I finally got my system working by using an older driver from ATI: Driver Version 6.13.10.6200 located at:
http://mirror.ati.com/support/products/radeonwinxppreviousdrivers.html

I also had problems with the latest 4 n 1 drivers from Via and went back to the original ones located on the install CD that came with the board.

A general question to all, my highest score with 3DMark 2001 SE is 12818, this using the above setting. I'm curious, is this a decent number for this CPU and board?

I hope this helps you.

I have been using gigabyte boards for 3 years now.. and love them. however I did have a problem when I bought this board ( ga7 vaxp ) and a 2600 333 version I put the system together and it would not boot.. I unpluged everythign went over all my witing. still. fans would come on. 5 or 6 seconds tops then it would shut down... I thought I got a bad cpu and so I slid my 1900xp chip in and it booted fine.. so.. I put it all back together... and said wth and installed the 2600 back in for one last chance and boom it worked flawlessly... been 3 weeks now and no issues.. its clocked to a 2800xp at the moment and I have no crashes and no errors so far * crosses fingers* But I am on team speak with a friend at the moment and he bought basicly same pkg and his is doing same thing... pc comes on for abotu 5 or 6 seconds then shuts down... ha does not have a 2nd amd chip to try.. and i dont think that was what fixed mine.. but. any ideas?

I'm back. I got a littler farther in the install process but...

I can't get my stripped RAID array loaded with windows XP. I have a gigabyte GA-7VAXP, 512MB PC2700, AMD 2400+, 2x 80gig Western Digitals on RAID.

I'm trying to load Windows XP Pro on virgin hard drives directly to RAID. I can enter Fastbuild and set up the array. BIOS sees the array during boot up and displays it on the boot screen at correct size.

I'm using 6 boot floppys for Windows XP setup. It says to hit F6 to load RAID drivers, which I do, but it doesn't ask me to load until the drivers until I get half-way through setup disk number 4. Anyway, at that time, I use another floppy with the drivers on it. I'm selecting the SBFasttrackLite133 driver out of the list and continue through setup. When I put the Windows XP Pro CD in the CD-RW it just says that it can't continue because it can't see any hard drives.

I have the drives jumpered both as cable select, using seperate cables going to the IDE 3 and 4 controllers. BIOS settings are set to RAID (obviously). FDisk can see the array, in fact I created a small DOS partiton on the array to see if Windows would see it then, no luck.

It seems like everything is right, but XP setup just doesn't see the array, which seems like a driver problem to me, but I know I'm loading the right driver.

What's going on?

Over the past 2 months I have put 2 systems together using the ga-7vaxp motherboards. One was rev 1.1 and the other rev 1.2. Both worked great no problems. Here's what I have:

2100+ xp
ga-7vaxp rev 1.2
MSI MX440 8x agp video
Leadtek winfast TV card
2 maxtor 20G hard disk
1 maxtor 60G hard disk
volcano 9 cooler
256M kingmax memory
450 watt enermax power supply
Pioneer 16x DVD

2100+ xp
ga-7vaxp rev 1.1
ATI 7500 all-in-wonder video
Soundblaster audigy
512 M ddr
maxtor 120G
stock cooler
350 watt enermax power supply
Pioneer 16x DVD
Sony CD writer

Both machines works fine. Things I have found:
1. win xp no raid driver if loading OS on raid. Works fine for win2k
2. When first booted CPU temp was 63 C, after about an hour temp dropped to 49 C. I think this was because of the stock cooler and the thermal tape.

The next system I build will be based on this board.

Junior Taylor,

when you say

"1. win xp no raid driver if loading OS on raid. Works fine for win2k"

What do you mean? Raid drivers don't work if loading OS on Raid, or none is needed or what?