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From: "Uzi Paz" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 12:19 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] system drivers on Gigabyte 7N400Pro2 (rev2).


> Hi,
>
> I have a Gigabyte 7N400Pro2 rev2. motherboard with XP Pro operating
> system.
>
> I notice that services that use SMBUS (such as SMART and hybernation)
> do not work.
>
> Furthermore starting at some time (before I had those problems), I
> noticed that there are problems with the motherboards drivers. cannot
> remember when they started.
>
> * I tried to reinstall the drivers from the CD that I got with the
> motherboard but without luck.
> * I tried to uninstall them and let Windows reinstall them, but even
> though it identifies the
> resources, the reinstallation fails.
>
> * I tried to uninstall the NVIDIA system drivers from the add/remove
> programs and then to
> reinstall, either from Gigabyte's site or from NVIDIA's site. Still
> doesn't work.
>
> * I then chose to reinstall SMBUS driver manually, leading the
> reinstallation source location to
> the drivers folder, SMBUS subfolder, and XP subsubfolder (perhaps the
> order of the subfolders is
> different, but I noticed that the XP subfolder has been chosen. It
> did find the driver but the
> installation failed informing me that the driver doesn't suit, and
> that perhaps it is not meant for
> XP.
>
> * then downloaded the later version of the system drivers from
> Gigabyte's site, and tried the
> same process with them. No good news here as well.
>
> * I have uploaded a picture of my system drivers current status to
> http://www.uzipaz.com/private/systemdevices.png
>
> so that perhaps it will give you a hint. For example, some other
> resource that needs to be
> uninstalled first.
>
> * I don't want to experiment a lot in uninstalling system drivers,
> because sometimes system
> drivers uninstallation might cause the OS not to load at all.
>
>
> Any idea on how to solve this problem would be appreciated.
>
> Uzi
>
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> hi, don't now if this will help as I can't remember the where or how but I
have read somewhere?? that smart should be disabled, think it had something
to do with certain mobo hard drive combinations but not entirely sure

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