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"Ahh, Help!"

Ok. This hapopened on monday.

PC crashed.

Not a big deal.

Then I pulled out the power cable, and reconnected it. Pressed the power button.

Nothing.

Fans whir, a few clicks, but a completly blank screen.

I know it's not the monitor, because as soon as I pulled out the monitor cable from my graphics card, it came up with a "No Signal Input" display...

Specs:

Gigabyte Motherboard (two months old)
1GB Ram (2 months)
Connect 3D ATi Radeon 9600XT (2 months)
Pentium 4 3.2GHz CPU (1 month)
120 GB HDD
2x DVD Drive

What's happened? Has the CPU fried? Is my Mobo AWOL???

Help!!!

But £50 is way over my budget...

I may replace it in a few months, so ya know...

OK.

Need to order the mobo today.

Now, is there really that big a difference between the Abit IC7 Max3 ([URL] http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Abit2.html [/URL]) and the Gigabyte GA-8IK100 ([URL] http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Gigabyte.html [/URL])?

Should it be a £50 difference?

I would go with the IC7... I can (almost) guarantee total satisfaction...

It is a legendary board - whereas I cant really say that I have heard of the Gigabyte offering.

The IC7-G MAX series is more expensive because of the Gigabit network capability (Overkill) and the Max3 mainly because it features the external exhaust sytem for the PWM area.

Then again Iam a blatant ABIT fan after my previous underperforming Gigabyte Graphics card, and my quite frankly awful Asus Mobo...

I think the fact that Biggles recommended it backs the argument up in favour of the IC7 :-)

Hmmm...

Whats the cheapest in the IC7 range with Gigabit LAN?

Notorious Biggles wrote:
> However, if memory serves me correctly, your motherboard has dual
> BIOSes on it, so I think that rules out the BIOS.

I thought that too, but it wasnt the case with my bro's.

Coin wrote:
> Hmmm...
>
> Whats the cheapest in the IC7 range with Gigabit LAN?

That would be the MAX2...

Thanks, off to buy one now...

Wait up.

What exactly is Gigabit LAN? I need something cheaper...

Meh, can't wait.

Abit IC7-G, here I come!

Coin wrote:
> Meh, can't wait.
>
> Abit IC7-G, here I come!

Thats the spirit!!

Answering your question; Gigabit LAN is 10 times faster than standard ethernet :P hence the overkill comment!