NooNoo I called two vendors neither one could tell me or guarantee me which revision they we shipping. Going to keep trying. After all this is for my wife!
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NooNoo I called two vendors neither one could tell me or guarantee me which revision they we shipping. Going to keep trying. After all this is for my wife!
Indeed, don't want to get this one wrong.
Well I bit the bullet and ordered all the parts for the PC. I am going to think positive and go with the Gigabyte board and the Crucial Ballistic (sp)? Memory. I have spent a lot of time researching this build. I want to thank everyone who helped me choose the parts and posted to this post...Don
Good luck and let us know how it turns out!
OMGmissing link I bought a MSI R4670-2D512 Radeon HD 4670 512 MB video card to go with this board and a VEiwSonic VX2233wm 21.5"%ms Widescreen 16:9 Monitor to go with this Pc..Don The PC will be in a Cooler Master Centurion 534 RC-534 case with a Antec-NeoPower ATX 550 550W powersupply and aAMD Phenom 9850 2.5 AMD2+ 125watt quad core PCU.....Don
I've found the Gigabyte to be stable and trouble free. One thing to keep in mind while reading reviews of the two boards in question is that the MSI has 31 reviews vs. 132 for the Gigabyte. In the end, Newegg users gave both boards an average of 4 stars. I like user reviews; in fact I think they are often more useful than "professional" reviews, but there's a tendency for them to get skewed to the extreme ends of the bell curve. There's also the "grain of salt" factor.
My general observation would be that Vista is more unforgiving of memory problems than XP, and a lot of issues with systems booting, rebooting, waking up from sleep mode (especially hybrid sleep mode) are usually RAM related.
Well I put everything together and it booted first time. Its shows my 650 Gb drive as IDE on SATA channel 2 Master. I had a hecka hard time getting the board to go in the I/O panel,power switch and hd light and everything worked first time except floppy drive light stayes on, the cable must be in backwards. ...Don
Yep, twisted end to the floppy drive, red stripe should be pin1 to pin1...
Windows Vista installed very smoothly. Not one problem. The chipset drivers and the Land drivers also installed smoothly. I installed Vista on a WD 100 Gig IDE hard drive. My 650-gig SATA hard drive doesn’t show up in my computer but when you go to device manager it is listed under disk drives.Going to install video card drivers next. How can I get this drive to show up??...Don
The 650 GB SATA drive shows up in disk management correctly but not in when you click on “computer”….Don
You need to partition and format it for it to show up in Computer.
Computer only shows drives that are ready for read/write
Thank you NooNoo I will do that now just loaded 33 updates. Don
NooNoo I went to disk Management and clicked on the 650 gb drive but I could not format it. I need a little tutoring on this I think.....Don
First you must partition it...
there is a thorough tutorial here