I'd say RMA it and replace it with another one. My motherboard had this problem where it would just shut off for no reason. So I replaced the PSU and it was still causing the same problem. After i ran a few test I found out their was a short in my motherboard. I replaced it and all is fine. My guess is that you have a defective board. Like I said before, Gigabyte isn't known for being reliable motherboards. I found this out after I bought one. If I could have done it all over again I would have went with an Asus or DFI (SLI) motherboard. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200 Nvidia 6800GT SATA II 250gig 7200rpm 8mb cache Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

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Cobra-R has more experience with this board than I do.So,mabey he's right about RMAing it.I prefer Abit or Asus. I looked up your owners manuel at the Gigabite website and as a last resort: In Integrated Periphals: Set Onchip Sata to - Combined (you want the grayed out area active)Enhanced might work also. Pata IDE set to - CH1 Master/Slave Sata Port 0/2 set to - CH0 Master/Slave Plug Sata drive into "0" Sata port on MB You want your HD to show up on Channel "0". Onboard H/W Raid - Disable Without having the computer in front of me I can only guess.I hope this helps. Good luck. Ralph S.

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And again..thank you Cobra and Raven! Cobra, I am sadly beginning to think it is the board. It seems kind of odd to me that everything else on the board seems to work fine, but not the sata part of it. It is brand new and I thought it would have been a good one, but I guess I should have done some more research..I always thought Gigabyte was a decent name. Live and learn by your mistakes though. Now, about other boards...I would like both of your opinions, if I may. Price isn't really a factor, but I would like it to be. I need a board that will hold up to my kids gaming, and be compatible with my socket 775 intel, DDR2, my sata drive, well I guess you can review all my specs from the original post. I was looking earlier at Tigerdirect considering an "ABIT NI8 SLI" board. Any opinions? Or any other suggestions about which board would be better? Thanks again..I REALLY appreciate it...you both are dears.

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Just about any Abit board is good. I have used an Abit AA8XE. It was a good stable board and easy to set up. And it will work with your computer parts.I got it from Newegg. I'm currently using an Abit Falta1y aa8xe. But it's more of a gaming board than every day. (No printer port) Sorry I couldn't help you. Good luck with your new board. PS: There are newer,more advanced boards out there but unless you're doing SLI or OCing I wouldn't go to the extra expense.

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Here are a good one. Under 120 bucks and it supports Dual Core as well since it's on the 945 chipset. ASUS P5LD2 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131538 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200 Nvidia 6800GT SATA II 250gig 7200rpm 8mb cache Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

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Raven and Cobra, I have been looking at both of the boards recommended and probably have a stupid question. My CPU is an "Intel Pentium 4 Processor 640". Will it be compatible on these boards? The specs for the boards say "Intel Pentium D/Pentium 4 HT". Thanks again! Mary

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Your Processor will work with either of the boards suggested. (yours too)They are both socket "T" (LGA 775).My processor is a Pentium 4 660 and it will work fine in any of them. Good luck.

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Any LGA 775 Intel processor will work with a 945 chipset motherboard. LGA 775 processor types Intel Celeron D 3xx Intel Celeron D 3x1 Intel Celeron D 3x2 Intel Pentium 4 5xx Intel Pentium 4 5x1 Intel Pentium 4 6xx Intel Pentium 4 6x1 Intel Pentium 4 6x2 Intel Pentium D 8xx Intel Pentium D 9xx AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200 Nvidia 6800GT SATA II 250gig 7200rpm 8mb cache Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

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Cobra and Raven, Your never going to believe it, but I got the original system working! I feel like a bleeping idiot but there was a jumper that needed to be removed from the hard drive, it was so small and blended in with the case that I didn't even see it. Then I followed all of your advice on the bios settings and presto..there it was. But I am running in a problem now, and I have about given up. The computer locks up constantly. I re-installed windows, it was difficult at times as it would lock up. Finally got it installed, then was thinking it may be a driver problem. Updated all drivers and downloaded all the windows updates. The CPU is running 33-43C degrees, so that is okay. One thing I noticed, I installed Media Center 2005 edition, but in the control panel "system", it is showing up as version 2002. Do you know if that is normal for the media center edition? Was just wondering if you had any ideas on what else could be causing the lock ups? Sometimes it happens as the windows first loads and I don't even click on anything, sometimes when I move the mouse to grab the slider bar, sometimes when installing things, sometimes just out of nowhere. It has me baffled. Oh, updated the bios too. I ran Sandra but I don't really understand alot of the information that it gives, nothing seemed to really stick out at me though. Any suggestions would really be appreciated otherwise I will just take it to a computer shop and let them deal with it. Thanks alot guys! Mary

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