I own a GA-K8N-ProSLI Motherboard from Gigabyte. When I power it on, it boots normally till it gets past the POST. Afterwards, it just completely locks up and all hardware buttons cease to function (Power, Reset). I have no peripherals plugged in except VGA, HDD, Monitor and Keyboard.

Hi,

You may install 2 x PCI-Express X 16 slot, supports two PCI-Express interface Graphics cards with SLI mode and 4x1Gb Dual channel DDR400/ 333/ 266 -184pin RAMs onto your AMD Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLI nVidia nForce4 SLI Chipset 2000MT/s FSB Dual Channel DDR400 Socket 939 ATX motherboard.

Check out your motherboard's specifications through this LINK.



I hope this works for you. Kindly reply/comment for further assistance. Good Luck!


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There should be an on board speaker remove new h/drive boot should post ok and give no boot device error make sure new drive is set for master on jumpers select auto detect h/drive in cmos if detects save reboot should work ok good luck!

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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The mainboard is having power problem.
Have you tried replacing the power supply?

Hello

That's normal condition. Probably your RAM shares it's capacity with internal video card (which uses the whole 256MB)

More info can be found on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Memory_Architecture

Download "MEMTEST86+" from the Internet.
One version boots from a diskette;
another version boots from a CD-R (that you have created).

Either way, make MEMTEST do a "full" test of the RAM in your computer -- bad RAM can cause "unpredictable" crashes.

The model number you referance in your post does not match anything on Gigabytes website, would you double check please?

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.

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Kommy

did you go into bios and check set up of ram speed etc

OK lets see here! Make sure your CMOS jumper is set properly on the board(Set to Normal) or Did you configure your bios after flashing the bios(going into bios and Load Optimized Defaults!)? or I don't think it would be another device in the system, but you can try troubleshooting by starting up with only what you need to run the machine (Mobo, memory harddrive, keyboard and mouse) then one by one adding devices back! or Did you have problems like this b4 you flashed the bios! Try flashing the bios back to an older version! post back if anything new or if i'm way off! Good Luck regards, babb