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I finally got my motherboard and ram upgraded... got 1gb of matched pc3200 corsair which im very happy with, but I also was lucky enough to spring for a Gigabyte GA-7n400 Pro 2 motherboard..

why? because its about the only nforce2 board on the marked that still has ide raid... but guess what, the raid controller is :ped up and im not the only person who thinks so, and theres seems to not be any fix for it, i have two WD1200jbs in RAID0 and i get worse performance than if I were running a single drive, my maximum is 55 mb/s according to HDtach, and sandra says i go about ~29900 kb/s

btw thats not the only thing thats wrong, the sensor chip is also garbage, reports every temperature totally wrong, has my mbm alarm going off all the time, my cpu sure doesnt feel like it is 70 C lol, voltages reported wrong too, multimeter proved this one to me at least

now im probably going to exchange this board for the abit nf7-s and get a couple of those highpoint sata adapters and run raid with that, or maybe ill just axe the raid who knows

the point is im so pissed off that i have to reinstall everything yet again and go through the refund hassles, and its beyond me how gigabyte could knowingly let such garbage get to store shelves

btw... check out the faqs on gigabytes website and their manuals to experience their mastery of the english language hahahahah

i've read that my current project mobo (shuttle an35n ultra) also has issues with RAID (no onboard controller...when using RAID pci cards). something to do with the nForce chipset and their BIOS or something. i am not currently trying to use RAID on it, but reading the problems made me hesitant.

as far as your temp sensor problems...does gigabyte provide its own app for monitoring? since you are using a 3rd party program (MBM) to read the sensors i wouldn't blame it on gigabyte until all else is ruled out. do the temps show up high in the BIOS as well?

gigabytes mastery of english...well...can't help you there. give them a call in their native language and see how YOU do. shuttle's manual has a few funny sentences in it as well due to poor translation, but nothing i can't live with.

good luck!

I am currently using a GB ga-7vaxp ultra and I LOVE it

right now, the only problem I have with it is the NB fan being a little loud (sent them an email to see about getting a replacement fan)


Im not trying to say you dont know what your doing....but are you absolutly sure there isnt a 1% chance there is something wrong with your settings/hardware that you might have done without knowing that is causing these kinds of problems

Test the onboard Winbond sensors with Gigabyte's own monitoring software. If the stats are whacked, then send it back. If it's not (and I'm pretty sure it's not, since the Winbond sensor isn't brain surgery) check your MBM settings - GB uses a multitude of diffrent sensor chips depending on the board, and if you call up the wrong one, well - you know.

well i set up mbm5 according to the database on their website and according to them im using the right chip and everything.. just reports the temps weird, and as far as the raid ive tried everything possible, new drivers, set it up multiple times, all with the same crappy result

and their own monitoring utility has temps that sound a little more accurate, but i just hate the program lol

how do the temps look directly in the BIOS? if the BIOS shows crazy temps then you know something is wrong with either the install (hs/f crooked, etc), the sensor is messed up, or the board is bad.

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in the bios the cpu temp stabilizes at about 46 C...... which is absolute bs, and i know im installing the hs/fan right