i used to own a gigabyte motherboard and in opinion gigabyte suck the don't follow the spec's of the processor they like to over volt

lol i didn't see that you already set restart option in windows is your video card getting hot? that is enough watts that you need for the power supply.

it could be you windows settings and when you check that and it still does it check your bios setting check at the motherboard website and see if there are any problems with that board and check for...

i've had that problem my computer did the same i did some reasearch and found out that when you via or nforce chips get hot they will do that you need to cool it down go to the computer store and get...

your cpu might be overheating pull the panel of and touch the side of the heatsink it should be warm if it is hot then that is your problem

maybe this will help you pull out the battery on the motherboard make sure the computer is unpluged pull cmos battery out and wait 3 mins and put it back in then make sure everything is connected and...

if you are talking about a video card you have to do it in the bios and if is your video card has to support it

your harddrive might be bad a bad harddrive will do that

chill if you want to know if its the motherboard or the cpu go to computer store that repairs computers and have them test both of them and if they both come out good its the ram

if it supports pc3200 ram yeah you could but since your processor is 266 fsb
you only see alittle performance gain unless you are going to upgrade the processor later to a 400 fsb

you can keep you case open but after 2-3 days its going to have alot of dust
so when it gets dusty you are going to have clan it out alot

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you can go to your video card properties and turn up the brightness there i hope that helps

it like with other companies you don't want to buy the cheapest modles abit is a good company upgrading bios is tricky if you put the wrong bios you can screw up the board that is why you make sure...

the are site that help you speed up you window's

use the search menu in the start manu and type the name on the find files and folders and delete them manually make sure they are the files before deleting

it could be a power supply but then again i put everything in my new case and all the leds was indicating that it was hooked up right and when i hit the power button it wouldn't start and i took it...

they also came out with a barton core

as for you question about windows xp being 32 bit it is and the amd athlon 64 will run both 32 and 64 bit microsoft is making a windows 64bit system but i don't know when they are coming out with it...

it could be setting in windows xp

the only amd processors that i heard that are good overclockers are the amd athlon xp 1700+ with the Thoroughbred b core and the amd athlon xp 2500+ with a barton core

hi i got two harddrives and i was wondering if i could install my games on my 2nd harddrive and would it work

do you know a place that works on computers in your area they have testers have them test the board and they will tell you if it is bad

it could be i just wanted to let you know about gigabyte me personnally i will never buy there products again that is my opinion

gigabyte has alot of problems with there motherboard and i have gone to forums and have seen alot people get a bad motherboard when they buy it and they have alot of bios problems they like to over...

thanks for the help i know what to look for when it comes time for a new motherboard

hi everybody i was looking for a new hard drive at western digital and i found a raptor 10,000 rpm scsi hard drive and i was wondering if it will work for with my motherboard here is a link to the...

go to your cmos and you can set it to load what harddrive that you want hdd 0 is primary and hdd1 secondary i hope this helps

i'm not 100% sure but it sounds that your monitor is going out have you check out other name brand and non name brands moniters

what model of card that you have it would help people to know what model it is as for freezing it could be that the video card it getting to hot

look at the manul for the motherboard it will tell you what the beeps mean the will do it in seqince match the beeps to the manual and it will tell you what the problem is

maybe this will help you nvidia and ati do the same thing they have bunch of companies that make there cards and each company makes there card alittle different let take for a example lets say that...

there are files on the harddrive from the old windows you have to find out which ones are from the old windows and delete them

there is a difference in performance you will get a little more performance with the barton core then the thoughbred core the L2 coche give the cpu more performance lets us the 2800+ chip because it...

as for the blue screen my friend has a elitegroup motherboard and his does that too and we did some reasearch and what we found out is that it is caused by the bios but as for the other hardware...

mostly gaming and upgrading and speed

gforce and ati card takes alot of power and it most likely your power supply my friend had the same problem and he had same power supply watt that you have and when he got 400 watt power supply it...

don't get me wrong i'm not picking on the 5200 but the only think that card is good for is play game with dx9
like halo its going to be fps game and it don't put out that much fps compare to the...

well if you want performance you can get gforce 5600 with 256mb for $170.00
and it would be more better for halo then the 5200

how much are you getting it