Dear all.... I am new here. I am also new to Gigabyte product, but I chose gigabyte because it is superior compared to Intel's board. My gigabyte experience started off really badly (I won't give the details here since it is no longer a problem), but I am enjoying it now. I will probably buy my next motherboard from Gigabyte again. All went well, except for one thing
So, I'll go ahead and give my specs:
Corsair TX750 Power Supply
Intel Core i7 750 3.06 GHz
10GB DDR3 Memory in total - I can't use slot 2 because of earlier accident
2GB Memory Team DDR3 in slots 1, 3, 4, 5 (Total 8GB)
2GB Memory V-Gen DDR3 in slot 6 (Total 2GB)
2.5TB HDD in total
1TB WD Caviar Black SATAIII in SATA slot 6, 7 (Total 2TB)
500GB WD Caviar Green SATAII in SATA slot 8 (Total 500GB)
LG Blu-ray Disc/HD DVD reader in SATA slot 0
LG Blu-ray Disc writer in SATA slot 4
Samsung DVD-RW drive in SATA slot 9
ASUS ENGTX465 (nVIDIA) 1GB DDR5 in PCIe x16 Slot 1 (PCIe x8 slot 1 is not accessible)
D-Link N150 Wireless Adaptor in PCI slot
Floppy Disk Drive
Card Reader
Logitech G15 Keyboard
Logitech VX Nano Mouse
Logitech Z506 Speaker
Logitech Webcam
Bluetooth Dongle with no brand
A 2.0 speaker without brand
And here comes the trouble:
Pinnacle Hybrid PCIe TV Tuner Analog/DVB-T in slot 2 PCIe x1
Firstly, there are no indications whatsoever from BIOS that this card is troublesome.
I only became suspicious of something wrong because of repeated failed Windows installation attemps (both Vista and 7). It stuck to the point after which my keyboard was detected (my keyboard has an LCD and lighting which flickers during the installation). I knew I should not install my HDD to SATA ports that are controlled by Intel's chipset - see specs, which according to a source, can cause the installation to hang. So that was not the case. I took off the components one by one, and eventually came up to the TV card. The Windows Installation was successful after I took off the TV card.
After the installation, I installed all the drivers. All working correctly, except the TV card. It's undetectable. I installed the drivers, use Media Player. Nothing....
I still refused to believe my TV card was damaged. I took a proper precaution by grounding myself, and not to touch the components unless necessary.
I also found this. I think in some way the problem is similar to my case:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/255208-30-pcie-tuner-update-video-cardCould anybody possibly tell me how to do that, and the good PCI bus value to start with. (Gigabyte motherboard gives me warning not to increase it to over 100MHz in BIOS setup). I am somewhat scared with modifying the value. Last time it caused a major problem for me until fixed by a Gigabyte technician. All started because I pushed the CMOS clear button.
Thanks in advance