Thread: Ga-ma770t-ud3p can't install chipset drivers

I built a system with gigabyte ga-ma770t-ud3p and amd Phenom II X3 cpu. i'm using windows xp pro, and every time i try to install the sb710 drivers from the installing cd that came with it my system locks up. i updated my bios to f3 to see it that was the problem but it wasn't. Has anyone else had this problem?

You already had Xp on the HD, and you're trying to reuse it, right? I think you'll find this is a bad idea; I've heard of the occasional person living through it, but their minds have never been right afterward! A new 80G SATA2 HD (Seagate or WD)- I think your sanity is worth that, no? Do a fresh install, and then you can move your files at your leisure, reformat the old drive, and keep your data files segregated from then on - like for when you want to install Win7.

No, this is a fresh install on a new hard drive. i believe it is .net that is freezing up the pc. it doesn't make sense. Something on the motherboard is interfering with .net(i tried to install all versions of .net and each locked up my system) and this is with no other drivers installed(fresh copy of windows xp installed). i tried my other boot drive that already had .net on it and same thing....any application that runs .net will lock up my system(i tried running Seagate diagnostics tools which uses .net and system locked up)

I'd recommend starting over (reinstalling Windows, something else may have gotten messed up). It sounds like your .net 2.0 installation got messed up. I have two of these boards, and what I had to do was download .net framework 2.0 separately from Microsoft before installing any drivers.