20 Most Recent Gigabyte GA-945GZM-S2 Motherboard - Page 5 Questions & Answers

Firstly check the volume is not low or muted on both windows and the speakers. In windows click the speaker icon in the bottom right of your screen, check the volume is turned up. Then click mixer or advanced and check that all volumes are turned up.
If using a laptop, check that the hotkey control for volume is on. You will see an audio icon on one of your ‘F’ keys, hold the Fn button located near the ctrl and press the volume function key.
Next open Device Manager from Control Panel and check there are no yellow exclamation marks on any drivers. If there are then you need a new driver.
If you are still having issues the sound card may be faulty, this is usually integrated into the motherboard. In a desktop PC you could buy a new PCI soundcard if you have a spare PCI slot in your machine.
You need to goto the manufacturers website, find their support section and there should be a list of drivers for your specific machine. Installing these should resolve your problem. I have a list of links to most manufacturers drivers on my website.
Hope this helps,
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http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/support-downloads.aspx

Hi,

you can download a copy for your Ethernet driver from here click to download chose your operating system and download.

Thank you for using Fixya.
Regards
Manish

You can download the drivers from Gigabyte WEB support site. Please click on this link and select your model motherboard and drivers you require :-
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/support-downloads/support-downloads.aspx

your power supply is shorted.. make sure to connect your new power supply to the actual voltage .. 220V is for 220V input PSU.... if you connect your 110V PSU to 220V outlet... it will fry your power supply..

IF THERE IS ANOTHER IDE PORT FOR A SECONDARY DRIVE i WOULD TRY TO SWITCH OVER TO IT . IF NOT THE MOBO MAY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE IDE PORT. VEIRFIED THAT THE DRIVES ARE CORRECT AND TRY TO CHANGE THE BOOT ORDER IN BIOS .

Check bios setting. Advanced BIOS Features
Open you're manual to page 34, section 2-2.
Make sure the On-Chip VGA is set to [Enabled].
If you have a PCI-E card connected to the MB you can not use both at the same time.

Cheers'
Mike

check te ide cable

You don't semm to have looked very far

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/Driver_Model.aspx?ProductID=2425

reset your bios inside your pc its a big watch battery take it out for 10 15 min then put back it if that does not work take out the battery again and if you see neer your battery was ther should be a small jumper its usually black and its plugged in your board it also should have 3 pins to plug it in when you take it out plug it in the next 2 pins (the miffle one will plug in aswell then put it back in the first pins again put battery back in an try to boot it should work...

Gary,

I don't understand, are you building this board and you want to know where to put the traces???

Did you not receive an instruction manual and software and probably a CD with this new board?

While I am not familiar with this exact device, it is my experience that all connections are standard for the form factor board you have. If your new board is the same form factor as the old, you can only plug it in correctly. If it is a diffrent form factor, you can't plug most stuff, including the power, at all. The sound connector will be marked as will the HD drive activity light and other small conectors. The drives will be IDE or SATA. The floppy connector, if any will be near the IDE, if any.

While I didn't understand your question, if I failed to guess the correct answer, please ask again.

Hello Amzy, hi! If you are planning to boot from a bootable USB flash drive, at boot-up you press F11, you will go to a boot menu, then select the USB drive. If your question is how to make a bootable USB flash drive, go search Youtube for the instruction on how to make a bootable flash drive.

hi, get here and download the drivers: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/Driver_Model.aspx?ProductID=2467#anchor_os

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Most modern ATX motherboards should have a 3-pin Wake-on-LAN connector near the PCI slots and should included BIOS support for Wake-on-LAN power up,check the Power Management Setup for this option.
As i check in your motherboard manual there is not pin but it supports wake on lan so go to bios and enable power on ring in power managment,it should be enable by default.Next right click on your computer,then properties,then device manager(OR YOU CAN SIMPLY GO TO START->RUN AND TYPE devmgmt.msc and hit enter).Then find the network adapters,click on it,and click on your ethernet controller(it should be realtek,gigabyte something like that) and the go to advance and scroll(search) for "wake up on lan" "wake up capabilities" and make sure that is on or enabled AND YOUR DONE:)

do other devices connect using the same patch cord.
Replace the patch cord an/or try another wall port.

HI,

There is only one memory stick that that board will support that is a 2gb chip. You can reveiw all the tested memory HERE, to see what will work prior to buying.

Good Luck,

Mark

You might need to change your bios settings from ide to sata. Have you already checked the bios settings? If everything is in order you might have a bad board. What have you tried so far?

Start
Control Panel
Classic View
System
Properties
Device Manager
Expand the "network devices" branch
Select the NIC
Properties
Advanced
Pull-down and select wake-up properties
Change to 'Wake on LAN".
OK

download LAN driver here, choose your OS:
http://www.giga-byte.ca/Support/Motherboard/Driver_Model.aspx?ProductID=2467&ost=xp#anchor_os

The new RAM module could be faulty or the second memory slot is faulty.
Try removing the original 1Gb memory module and inserting the new memory module in its place to see if the computer boots up normally. If it doesn't then then new memory module is faulty.