Ehy steve that's the same problem i got...i overclocked my 2200+ to 2400+ and the OS crashed totally and during installation got a lot of error message and BSOD since installation either from win98SE setup and win2k setup...when i downloaded again to 2200+ everything worked again with no problem..

same problem except i'm not overclocking.

Does anyone seem to have a problem with the time it takes to load in a new application? Example, when running any program, then switching to something else, It can take up to 2 minutes to start the new app. Is this a memory issue, maybe? Or a bad harddrive controller in the bois (though i didnt have this issue with my Asus mobo using the same harddrive)? Any Help PLEASE?!!?

BTW i think i've found a solution to my mobo headaches

if i RMA this board and it comes back broken, i'm just going to trash it, file a complaint with the better bussiness bureau.

Post your complaints as well! here is the link!

http://complaints.bbb.org/Welcome.asp

THEN I SHALL DO THE IMPOSSIBLE!

buy another board from a reliable company. usch as Abit, Asus, or MSI.

I have a GA-7AXP Rev 1.1 XFX Gforce4 8X AGP Athlon XP 2400 overclocked to XP 2800 and cheap 512mb DDR 2700. I have a chieftek case with four fans and a nice SLK 700 copper heatsink with a tornado delta 80mm on it. All the fans are controlled by pctoys system max. I actually am impressed how stable it is. It just keeps going and going.

mmmm Cool Djdj, but a little noisy? i have a 75.5 CFM fan on allu heatsink with copper base + a 120 Sunon 108 CFM Fan..and it's like a vacuum cleaner

Claudio....i also swapped my memory round within the slots as i have two lots of 256 and one stick of 512 333mhz branded memory, some brand of somekind.......just a thought.

Eye Scum - I had the same problem with my Gigabyte with file browsing and application running. You double click say Pocomail or Outlook and you had enough time to make a cup of coffee before the app hs launched. It's a problem with how the board handles IDE traffic using the VIA enhanced IDE driver. My advice is to uninstall the IDE driver or better yet return the board as faulty and buy an alternative.

Just for everyone's enjoyment - I sent my GA7VAXP by to my supplier (Scan Computers) for testing, they found errors with the AGP Controller, IDE Controller, Northbridge, Promise RAID and the ATX connector. Scan have now pulled this board from the portfolio. Mkes you think!!!!

yup, thats exaclty what used to happen. 2 days ago i decided that i have had enough and went out and purchased a Asus A7N8X deluxe and "WOW!"....what a nice change!!! Now my computer is running awesome!!! Not one crash and the speed is unreal!!! Problem is now...I forgot to back everything up before the changeover! :0

Hey, how the f**k do you set higher multipliers than 12.5 on 7VAXP rev 1.1 ?

I understand that Gigabyte is playing with us, they removed one switch from SW1 in 1.2 rev - this is supportable, because you just solder it back. But I NEED a 13.5 multiplier, because:

My Tbred 1700+ can run at 2300MHz, but all my other s**tty components (or maybe just one ) crash at any little FSB adjustment - so I'm stuck at multiplier increase method, where I get only
12.5 x 170 = 2137MHz.

And wow! , I set the FSB to be only 166, but my crazy mobo makes it itself to be 170. Also for 133 MHz I get 136MHz with no questions asked . And let's not talk about this mobo's idea about default voltages

Please, if you know any software/hardware way, help me.

Sounds alot like memory problems. These boards are partial to Winbond chips (ie. Kingston HyperX and Crucial) and tend to fail with the high performance setting on and any out of spec memory timings.

I am using HyperX cas2 333mhz at autodetect with a 1700+ JIUHB, and have not had a single problem with an overnight Sandra burn in - stable as can be. I agree that it is not an 'overclockers' board, but is still a good value for the buck.

Ok, I want to install the raid!

I need a bootable diskette to put in tho when installin windows XP, after pressing F6. Everything else is fine i just cant get this disk from anywhere!!
Does anyone have the disk please, or tell me where to get it from preferably.

Cheers

http://europe.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/FileList/Driver/driver..._20276.exe

but trust me, your opening a whole can of worms!!!

You don't need a bootable disk, you just need a disk with oemsetup.inf at the root of a:\. Download file using above link and extract to floppy, press F6 when windoze prompts for 3rd party drivers and presto, RAID loaded. If you are going to go through with this I suggest you use RAID 0 (mirroring) to protect valuble data, as you can tell from this forum these boards can be somewhat troublesome

My machine restart itself randomly (this is the principal problem)and take a lot of time to load the system, i see the win xp desktop but it freeze there and after 2 minutes or more strart over continue charging the programs, this happen since i install the first time win xp, now i have the lastest drivers for my video card, the 4in1 drivers, etc..that don't fix the problem ......

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have GA-7VAXP
27 GB. MAXTOR H.D.
512MB 333 DDR MEMORY ELIXIR BRAND
WINXP PRO WITH SERVICE PACK 1
AMD ATLHON 2600+
THERMALTAKE COOPER FAN
BIOS VERSION F13
ALL IN WONDER RADEON 8500DV 64MB

I have had on and off problems with the system restarting on its own. It is pretty frustrating, though make sure you check your device manager to make sure everything's working. RAID wasn't for me so I uninstalled it and things worked smooth after that. Plus check out any Windows updates (though it seems like whenever I install DirectX 9.0 on this thing it goes haywire, so I'd avoid it).

I am having another problem with the board, though. I have Rev 1.2. I had a ton of problems last night, finally got just about everything back in running order except for one thing--the onboard Firewire card. I have it plugged in to the motherboard, checked out BIOS and it is Enabled, checked out Device Manager and it says it's working properly, yet when I connect my ADVC-50 analog-digital converter to it, nothing! It doesn't recognize that anything is connected.

I have been using this for the past week fine. But then I get all these problems last night and now the firewire isn't working. I tried uninstalling it in Device Manager, restarting the computer, then it will detect it again and reinstall it, but still it doesn't recognize any connections. I tried changing firewire cords, but no luck.

Any idea what happened to the firewire ports and how to fix it?

hello all...im new to this so take it easy on me lol
i have a ga7vaxp
and jesus the problems ive got......i have a xp2600 cpu..an 80 gig 8 cache
western didgital hd.....512 -333 memmory
a prophet 4500 tv out...vga card(getting a new 1 soon)
yet i cant play games....if i try the pc locks up....ive set the bios to take a 4x vga card and even tried it on auto...no effect.....i try playing moh....screen just flickers......all this started after my son downloaded a virus which went to the board....got rid of the virus (i think)....and as you can see...all hell breaks loose....sometimes it boots up with a blue error screen
please can anyone help........a friend on mine says flash the bios
but im not sure how to do this
thank you
les

oh yes im running windows 98se not xp
thanks
les

Just use the flash utility that came on the cd with the motherboard that is how i flashed my bios

well you may have gotten rid of the virus, but if it was a bad enough one then it's already done its damage. Most of which is probobly irrepairable.

The only thing left to do is to reformat and reinstall windows.

Win98 is severely effected by viruses, i'd reccommend getting Windows XP Pro. XP has alot better security than 98 and isnt as vulnerable to viruses.