20 Most Recent Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-SLI Motherboard Questions & Answers

One bad lead can cause a computer to continue on a cycle or to shutdown or fail to detect your hard drive boot up

test all leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions,IDE,SATA

the leads from your ((motherboard to your hard drive)) make sure they have a secure connection and are not faulty or just replace them they could be faulty make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd have secure connections and are not faulty or just replace them they could be faulty ?

even something as small as an electrical extension or a faulty fan lead can cause this problem computer needs all of the data and power to travel through every working device and to have an end for a computer to be able work properly

a motherboard and a hard drive any leads between them will fail before your motherboard or your hard drive check all electrical extensions make sure they are securely seated even the cd/dvd drives need to have current go through make sure these devices are working

could be a dirty graphics card you might have remove the graphics card and clean the socket

also check your computer ram and cmos battery to make sure they are securely seated and the battery has plenty of chargehope this helps you

CPU

• Socket 939 AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 / Athlon™ 64 FX / Athlon™ 64

Chipset

• NVIDIA nForce4 SLI MCPs (media and communication processors)
• Super I/O: ITE IT8712
• CICADA VSC 8201 Gigabit LAN PHY
• T.I. IEEE1394b
• AC'97 Realtek ALC850

Memory

• Dual channel DDR 400 / 333 / 266 184pin
• 4 x DIMM slots up to 4GB

Expansion Slots

• 2 x PCI Express x1
• 2 x PCI Express x16, supports two PCI Express interface Graphics cards with SLI mode
• 2 x PCI slot (PCI 2.3 compliant)

Internal I/O Connectors

• 1 x CD in
• 1 x FDD
• 2 x IEEE 1394b (supports 3 ports)
• 2 x UDMA ATA 133/100/66 Bus Master IDE
• 3 x cooling fan pin headers
• 3 x USB 2.0/1.1 (support 6 ports)
• 4 x SATA II 3Gb/s

Back Panel Connectors

• 1 x COM
• 1 x LPT
• 1 x RJ45 LAN
• 2 x USB 2.0/1.1
• 6 x audio ports (Line In / Line Out / MIC In / Surround Speaker Out(Rear Speaker Out) / Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out / Side Speaker Out)
• Coaxial SPDIF input/output function
• PS/2 (Keyboard/Mouse)

H/W Monitoring

• H/W detecting and reporting for case open, CPU voltage and fan speed
• System health status auto-detect and report by BIOS

BIOS

• 2 x 4 Mbit flash ROM
• Award BIOS

CPU/AGP/DIMM setting

• CPU HT / Multiplier / Vcore Voltage adjustable via BIOS
• DIMM Voltage / Clock adjustable via BIOS
• PCI-ExpessX16 Voltage / Clock adjustable via BIOS

Unique Features

• @BIOS™
• Download Center
• NVIDIA Firewall
• NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU support
• Q-Flash™
• Xpress™ Install
• Xpress™ Recovery

Bundle Software

• Norton Internet Security™

Power

• ATX power connector and ATX 12V connector
• Power-off by Windows 98/Me/2000/XP shut down and switch

Form Factor

• ATX
• 305mm x 244mm

Remark

• Due to different Linux support condition provided by chipset vendors, please download Linux driver from chipset vendors' website or 3rd party website
• This product does not support Win9X/ME, due to most hardware/software vendors no longer offer support for Win9X/ME. However we still offer available related drivers to serve our customers.

Unfortunatelly there are no drivers for your motherboard for Windows 7. Here is the official link to check by your own. Since you insist on using this motherboard I advice you to try to use the Windows xp set of drivers. In most of the cases there are no significant conflicts.

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Remove the hdd and try again. If now you can enter the BIOS and check that everything is correctly recognized and configured then the hdd has died, replace it. If it's the same then start by checking the power source, followed by the memory and the CPU. If all these are functioning then the problem is in the motherboard itself - unfixable, replace it.

something is wrong with your computer
it can be anything
it is mostly a hardware problem
motherboard or the hardrive is ur best bet

Hi Rachacha!

I have lait a few moths.
Off course, you can use the pcie 2.0 card on pcie 1.0-1.1 mobo, but the card effiency is only 90%, because the mobo have not enough power for the card.

Best regards
Kommy

hi kathy,

there are a few things you can try, reseting the cmos, with the jumper usually located near the battery. if you cant find that, try removing the battery for 30 mins and then popping it back in. if no luck from there, you could try another cpu, if that dont work then it may just be the mobo! good luck!

hope it helps!

which motherboard is that?

hi im josh in cebu phils. may i help you? friend in your problem all i can say is there is a what we called short cicuit between your power source and the motherboard thats wy when you put the usb it will turn on normaly because your usb is the one igniting the powersource and it will not make the usb good because as time goes your usb is always at risk because it serves as the load. Friend mainboard is made up of many transistors capacitors, diodes and the IC or integrated circuit these IC is auto shut when there is a short circuit happening on your mainboard so thats why whn you turn it on it will the because the IC will shutoff because there's short circuit happeing. and every time you put the usb it will turn on because the usb will be the one to absorb the short circuit at will act as a load and thats the time your IC will work and the pc turns on. to solve such problem try to disassemble your pc.remove everything,and clean every parts of it. if you have the lacquer thinner that is the best solution for cleaning just put a little of it on the brush and brush the parts of your motherboard then after you let it dry for sometime then assemble it again. this will solve your prblem.we had tried this many times and it works. so try to do it. good luck hope i helped you.

Might be that the chip is bad, make sure that nothing is muted in your volume control also check that digital doesnt have a check on it. some times when digital has a check it wont let you hear anything.

Hi
First u attach your pendrive with pc after that u do a right click on pen drive folder ,then u click on scan option then the scan folder will apper and u select the pen drive folder by adding ,then click on next opyion and wait untill the scan is over .After scan over's then u can format your pendrive....


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If it is not an accumulation of dust and if your fans are working properly and your ventilation is not blocked, that there was not a built-in cooling system for this integrated part makes me wonder what is going on. One would have thought it suggested such was not necessary. How old is the thermal paste in the computer? I would replace that before trying more desperate measures. Rather than presume the fan was working, I'd make sure that it was. Here are some causes and fixes: https://www.onecomputerguy.com/gpu-overheating/

no PC told at all no OS told either. sure a DESKTOP sure. no monitor told nor cable used, VGA, DVI,hdmi, DP i can not see your near black screen at all. cold booted is the PC splash screen dead./? all bios screen dead and all BIOS works even with HDD missing. idle black is sleep mode, a USA law mandates that. iof we do not like sleep mode we disable it in power settings CP CP means control panel this must be your first PC ever? and all go to sleep ,go to walmart see them all in sleep mode now, yes, a USA law called Energy star laws. and all wake up on demand new , unmolested. wiggling the mouse or hammering the space bar ends sleep but not if (again) power settings has USB going to sleep too. why post lacking Pc makers name and OS.windows what gee vast persons on earth ugraded w7 top 10 and now this fails. due to , PC maker told you , no w10 support in this secret PC 4 decades of 100,000 models of PC I can no no guess blind./ Radeon hd 7770 card and 80watt card in fact, oops.????? is this real ATI/AMD card or any of the other 12 makers of cards. ??????????? no full card number told and guess what the watts matter. 250watts is smallest watt PSU, or more if PC is loaded out like mine with 2SSD and 4 SSD and 1DVD and 1 Blue ray and max ddr and more. Power is first after fit, and yours fits so power is next PSU watts and what the card needs let me see that. all hits on this card show it crosses the magic 75watt rule for PCi-2 power of 75watts, and card is 80watts and more dynamically so they maker of the card has a 6 pin 12vdc aux jack that can not be ignored or the card fails, so is that wired up? as it must? yup top rear of card 6 pin aux power in black , steathy that, hard to see at 1st glance but 80watt cards need it, that and even 300watts cards are sold. does your card have red fan. see what I mean buy 12 maker of cars all with AMD GPU. the cards all have tag called the SKU tag or full model told for GPU speed and vram sizes and more, lots more. https://search.brave.com/images?q=%20Radeon%20hd%207770%20card# I have boxes full of old GPU cards here, stored. some need 500watt more PSU to even begin any 3d mode. only the SKU matters, wiki SKU. and what PC this is and what PSU wattage and if said PSU has the 2 AUX CABLES WITH DUAL 6/8 Plugs, (PCI-12v) marked. if not we can do adapters easy. ask

so the PC mobo has and addin, PCI card sound"? 2004 PC mobo relic, now and 13yo to you. no card told. (fail)(buy only w7 allowed card if must) you did say CARD so means NOT ON-BOARD sound chip. relic P4 PC. mobo v1.0 mobo? this trash mobo uses EOL DOA, via chipsets, that do not allow w7 Integrated Realtek ALC662 audio CODEC chip this chip set is dead too, from maker realtek. if you knew that, and added a secret sound card. this mobo only does windows 200o to XP says so on page one at gigabytes this mobo. so w7 does not belong hear unless replacing every thing there that fails 1 by 1, , pain. ive done this vast times, for folks willing to. last xp driver is here for realtek https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/8VM533M-RZ-rev-10/support#support-dl-driver as a rule only this OEM maker PC can make there sound chips work (as a team of parts) not simple as many think, even has mixer chips and more, all custom to maker. yes cards work better, on this mobo the VIA chip and codec chip must work or sound will be dead. and is common this. lacking no vista driver up, ever/ this mobo has no SATA ports nor any PCI express card slots at all. and finding PCI (non express) cards that can run w7 can be hard. for sure now. yes possible, with careful searching specs of relic PCI cards. also the VIA chip dead makes The ethernet port dead too. and usb dead and IDE drives dead,vista up. never buy VIA chipped mobo. or pain is all there is. no drivers.

it is only a USB mouse and works on any pC really. w7 needs no special driver for this mouse ever, it uses PnP, plug and play and the internet must be active and working for PnP to work is it? not told that. your failed computer is all messed up with w7 even infected monza is w7, 2012 made (year) the usb ports are first not mouse the device manager must show all USB ports have good drivers, and you test them using a USB stick of thumbdrive memory to be sure they do work, and if does good or use USB keyboard to test usb ports all if all that works then the mouse is tried. and internet connected and the mouse to when connected must show up in device manager. and actually function/

talk to gigabyte.com is the cooler not from gigabytes is that it? so is this below? i guess you meant Model# GZ-FW1CA-AJS go back to air or upgrade to far better cooling this is not. cheap cooling is no good. will not last. also above is know for bad corrosion inside, rule #2 buy cooling only from makers that see spare parts for it. or is doomed. the manual shows no parts list for sure water level so needs new water tank I guess, why not ask maker for support no PC store sells parts for this custom case.(turn key is seems) or defeat that switch and just look at level at step 1 , before turned on. (that is what I would do, but sure back to AIR