GIGABYTE GA-7N400 Pro 2 nForce2 Ultra400 Chipset Motherboard

Rating:
Summary: Very bad MB
Review: Do not install driver for the IDE controllers from the CD.
The system is very unstable.

Rating:
Summary: difficult to get started
Review: This MB does not come with a power cord for a serial drive. The drivers included with the MB will cause windows XP to stop working, due to missing a system file. There is information about this at the nVidia website. You will not be able to install WindowsXP if you are using a serial hard drive unless you know to hit F6 quickly when given the chance during the install of the Operating system, then install the drivers for the serial drive from a floppy, which you make from the driver disk, look for Bootdrv.exe on the disk. This motherboard will not operate with two strips of 512 pc3200 memory, in spite of what the manual says. Customer support at gigabyte seems to be in another country and does not understand any of these problems. I have returned my first MB and the second has exactly the same problems. From the web it appears many others have problems with nVidia drivers for different products