20 Most Recent Gigabyte GA-K8VT800 Motherboard Questions & Answers

BIOS IS FIRST not windows, XP, last one allowed. 20045 mobo and you using it 12 years late wow. bottom fishing? BIOS must see the drive and the RTC coin cell not dead. the HDD IDE PATA dive is bad as most are did you know most drives store the drive ID in a track zero 0 zone so when the drive goes dead so does zone 0 and ID is now zero . and now invisible. learn to test the drive on a 2nd PC, see it is dead. see? testing PC with no send good PC is well near impossible unless none good spare HDD is at hand. IDE is a dead technolgy now most are 20 year old and are all dead. unless you buy one new and pay huge price for legacy stuff. (scapling) why not move up to SATA drives, SDD and and this legacy slog. this mobo has 2 SATA ports. just below IDE ports. buy a sata drive and use it and end IDE era now like 99.9%of others did. testing a IDE takes 2days , sata 10 seconds. end it;.

Hello you can download the driver here:http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=1709#dlBy selecting your windows system.But here are other models, of your mainboard:http://www.gigabyte.com/search/search.aspx?kw=GA-K8VT800#pr-1 If the driver did not fit, select the right mainboard.Good luck

insert original mother board driver and install drivers

Hi Steve

You don't say which Operating System you use, so my answer will be presented in general, Windows terms. If yours is a non-Windows Operating System and my answer seems to be of some relevance to you, please consider applying the logic and principles involved here to your own Operating System and, if in doubt, please feel free to add a Comment or Clarification to this Question. Please include information about the type, model and specification of your computer, its Audio/Sound Card and its Operating System. Doing so helps us makes faster, more accurate and more assured Remote Diagnostics leading to better quality and more useful Advice, Answers, Guidelines , How-Tos and Solutions.

You also don't say if you are using the on-board sound or a separate, dedicated PCI Audio/Sound Card.

Pin connections on the motherboard relate to the Front Panel Audio Connectors on the front of your Computer only.

If no audio device is showing on your Operating System's desktop, then this is an Audio Driver or Audio Device Settings problem, rather than a motherboard Front Audio Panel Header Pin Settings issue.

Start > (My) Computer > (System Properties) View System Settings > Device Manager

This will tell you if the Audio/Sound Device is installed and functioning properly and if the Audio/Sound Driver is installed properly. If a yellow question or exclamation mark appears next to the Audio/Sound Device, then there is a settings anomaly, fault, error or conflict with the device and/or its Driver.


AUDIO DEVICE SETTINGS
For your Audio/Sound Device to function properly, it must be set as the Default Device:

Start > Control Panel > (Hardware and Sound) Sounds and Audio Devices > (Manage Audio Devices) Audio > click on the preferred Default Playback device > Apply > OK > restart computer.


AUDIO/SOUND DRIVER PROBLEMS
Re-install the correct Audio/Sound Driver that relates to BOTH the device and your Operating System, then restart the computer. Install the Audio/Sound Driver either from the motherboard's Drivers and utilities CD or from here:

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2323#dl

Please note that this motherboard supports only Win 95/Win 98/Win 98SE/Win ME/Win 2000/Win NT/Win Server 2003 (32 Bit)/Win Server 2003 (64 Bit)/Win XP (32 Bit)/Win XP (64 Bit) and possibly also some Linux Distros (Operating Systems). If your Operating System is not included in this list, then it is highly probable that no Audio/Sound Drivers exist for that Operating System.

If this is the case, then consider buying and installing an inexpensive, basic 5.1 or 7.1 PCI Sound Card that is pre-confirmed as being compatible with your Operating System.

For motherboard pin settings diagrams, download the manual for this motherboard from here:

http://www.retrevo.com/support/Gigabyte-GA-K8VT800-manual/id/23286ag203/t/2/

MOTHERBOARD FRONT PANEL AUDIO HEADER SETTINGS
Pin 1 Left is usually MIC IN
Pin 2 Left is usually MIC BIAS/MIC PWR/MIC 5V
Pin 3 Left is usually OUT RIGHT
Pin 4 Left is usually GROUND/GRD
Pin 5 Left is usually OUT LEFT

Pin 1 Right is usually MIC GROUND/GRD
Pin 2 Right is usually Empty/Blank
Pin 3 Right is usually RIGHT RETURN
Pin 4 Right is usually Empty/Blank
Pin 5 Right is usually LEFT RETURN

I hope this helps.

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Test your PSU or replace it if your power supply units fan is not working your PSU is faulty

One bad lead can cause a computer to continue on a cycle or to shutdown or fail to detect your hard drive

Test all leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions,IDE,SATA

the leads from your ((motherboard to your hard drive)) make sure they have a secure connection and are not faulty or just replace them there probably old and faulty make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty even the electic extensions or just replace them they are probably faulty a computer needs its connections to continue its cycle and have an end so any faulty leads will end up with a computer error hope this helps

What you need to do is look for the Power Wire coming from the front of the PC. It will probably say something like PWR BTN on it. It will be two wires twisted together. Now on the bottom right of your motherboard there will be pins sticking up, probably about 12 of them. 2 of the pins will have a label printed on the motherboard that will say PWR BTN. Just plug those in hit the power button on the front.

If you can still go into the BIOS screen, disable the change you made and see if the system returns to normal.
If not, and you do not remember the settings, go for the default...

Ground yourself to the chassis to dissipate static electricity, with the system off, remove the bios battery.
This will undo any changes you made.
It will also undo and system changes that make you system unique.
At least it should start working again. You can go from there.

Good luck, and don't forget to vote

You can download the drivers from Gigabyte WEB support site, select your model motherboard to download :-http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/support-downloads/support-downloads.aspx

You can download all driver for this motherboard from this link.

http://www.gigabyte.ph/products/product-page.aspx?pid=1711&dl=1#driver

Please verify that you have a good processor. It seems that your processor is bad.

i think the cpu may have a problem with the board or the memeory. either its bad, damaged or incompartible with your system. try out another cpu

Yes without the jumpers in the correct position the on-board audio won't function. Just follow the diagram. Make sure that there is no power to the board before you make adjustments to the jumpers just to be safe. It's also good to ground yourself by touch the case (if it's metal) before you touch any of the components and or motherboard.

Only try to remove the cmos battery and reinsert again.......

Go here and download what you need .. Be sure to check the revision # on your board to select the proper drivers

You could try a program like EZ-Flash to flash the bios without using a dos disk. Gigabyte should have some type of program on their website that would do the flashing without makeing a disk as most new computers do not have a floppy drive nor does Windows XP/Vista use dos. Hope this helps.

Under normal circumstances you do not need to boot into a drive to flash your BIOS. Normally you would take a dos boot floppy and the latest BIOS firmware and put them on a floppy, which is then inserted into the floppy drive before turning the computer on, and if the bios boot priority is set to boot from floppy before the harddrive, it will ask to boot from the floppy, which allows you to flash the bios from a command line or text graphical interface.

*Note that you may be able to use a cd, but floppy is the oldschool way - if you could boot into an operating system you could use the modern methods which flash the bios while running an OS.

Your board comes with Q-Flash in the BIOS, which means you are able to log into the bios and flash it using this utility and by putting the BIOS firmware on a floppy and inserting it into the computer.

Please see Here for instructions and Here for the latest firmware.

If you cannot access the BIOS, meaning the BIOS is completely bricked, then you will need to buy a new motherboard. Unfortunately there is no way to fix a BIOS which is completely bricked.

Several suggestions:

Make sure the onboard sound is enabled in the BIOS settings.

Be sure the jumper plugs between pins 5 & 6 and 9 & 10 on the F_AUD connector on the board are installed (unless they have been removed to plug in a cable to audio connectors on the case). Without these the sound won't go to the output jack on the board.

Reinstall sound drivers.
This will get you to Gigabyte's download page for this board. There are several versions so you'll need to pick yours from the list.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/Driver_List.aspx?Keyword=GA-K8VT800

Download and install the sound driver to make sure you have the latest version. Then verify your sound settings in Windows to be sure you don't have anything muted.

Be sure your speakers are hooked up correctly (plugged in to the correct jack, proper power, etc.).

If nothing gets the sound working you may have a problem on the motherboard. Get a sound card and install it in one of the PCI slots to replace the onboard sound. These often give better sound quality than the onboard audio anyway.

First, remove all power from motherboard, including the Power Supply ATX plug. Then remove ram and all PCI and PCI-E / AGP (Video) cards even network cards... Let it sit for about 5 minutes and then plug in the necessities: RAM, Video Cards and if nothing works repeat the process but alternating ram slots and ram.

a constant beep indicates either a power supply, motherboard or keyboard problem.

If you know what you are doing then open up the case (turning off the power first of course and earth yourself by touching the case before anything inside it) and make sure all the connecters are seated properly and try a different keyboard if you have one.