[Gavin78]

ok this is what I did,


XP took a stupid amount of time to install the quick format got to 20% then waited there for around 15 mins then went to 100% the whole process of installing xp took around 45/55 mins.

Before hand I could install XP in around 20 mins, windows 7 took forever and when it came to installing that it stopped at 12% and stayed like that for 30 mins.

This board is an AM2+ but AM3 ready and I had to update the bios in order to run the 965 BE I was aware of some people saying that the bios update was a beta but it never said that on the site. installation of the bios seem to go well and teh quadcore worked like a charm.

When I took the mainboard out of the tower case to put in this new one I took everything off apart from the CPU and fan installation went well I've installed boards before.

So I had no look with this board messed with it all day from a different GFX card to different ram on different slots I also set default back to bios and took out the sound card and just had basics to install and no look.

I have another desktop AM2 5000+ so I tried the 500gig and SSD on that machine put the XP disc in and tried to format the HD got to 20% then 5 secs after went to 100% and installed XP in around 25 mins....little bit quicker with my SSD drive.

So I thought it was down to maybe my DVD writer going faulty so I took the drive out of the other and tried it on mine and no luck the same thing was happening as said at the start of this thread.

So I decided to order a AM3 board and 4 gig of DDR3 ram for £118 coming tomorrow and I read up that this board takes the 965BE out the box no bios updates.

So anyone who has or thinking of getting a gigabyte ma770-ud3 version one just be carefull if flashing the bios because I'm pretty sure I screwed this board up doing that.

I guess tomorrow we'll see what happens when I install this board.