not too sure........... (Gigabyte GA-5AA (Rev 3.2))

Name: niall

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Product:	Gigabyte GA-5AA (Rev 3.2)
Date:	25.11.00 (769 review reads)
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Advantages: at least it's working

Disadvantages: nagging feeling I made a mistake!

I was in a hurry, and bought a GA5-AA, AT form. I'm using a K6-2 500MHz; at present an ATI rage fury 128 pro 32Mb(AGP), and prior to that, a MATROX G200 AGP; 192Mb RAM (recently upgraded from 64).
The manual is 'ok', but the info on the bios settings is a joke. (maybe on the website, check before buying).
I ALWAYS get a blue screen crash after loading any driver (but I just push reset, and everything has seemed OK after). This is very worrying at the time, but I really do think the driver installation is OK afterwards.
Getting the right bios settings, and motherboard drivers took me a considerable amount of time trawling the web for information, and trial and error in the bios. AGP graphics cards make it even worse. (By the way, if using AGP, dont put any PCI card in the PCI slot adjacent to the AGP port if possible.
Otherwise, the board seems fairly reliable, the physical installation went OK (misalignment of mounting posts excepted), but I wish I'd got something else!

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