Well folks, I got a new mobo, proc, and ram yesterday. Put it all together last night and got it up and running. Now I have a couple questions though.

I installed motherboard monitor last night to check up on the system. I was looking and my CPU temp is 58C under 100% load. No load its at 54C. That seems a bit high to me. I put the HSF on like I do any other time. Put a bit on the core and I used a credit card to spread the AS3 around on the heatsink itself. Just a thin and even layer. No overclocks or anything. Any thoughts?

Second, I was looking at Mobo monitor and my volatges seem low. Im running a 431 Watt Whisper Enermax. My +5V is currently at 4.08V and my +12 is at 11.61V. Seem kinda low dont they? Is there a way to maybe boost those a bit?

System Specs :
AMD Athlon 2500+ with stock heatsink
GigaByte GA-7N400Pro2
Geil Golden Dragon 1Gig PC3500

Check your voltage and temp stats in your bios, MBM must be incorrect.
No way you could even be running stable with your 5v rail that low.

I'd say those temps are slightly correct for the stock heatsink since I remember people always fretting about their temps with their Bartons and stock heatsinks. Surely it's a little higher than what most people get, but that's probably where the error is in MBM5. As Tek said, check the temps in the bios.

NEO,
get PR3ACH3ARs HARDM3NU bios #13 and D/L it to your desktop.
Format a 3.5 floppy and copy the new Bios from your desktop to it.
Gigabyte has a bios flashing utility that's really easy to use.

Pr3ach3r has straightened out the BIOS and corrected all the things that
Gigabyte has been putting off. I did it and it's the bomb-ass BIOS.
It will make the tuner work and the temps it shows, will be closer to the truth.
the voltages will be more accurate too.
Put your multi-meter on the molexs and double check, you're probably with-in spec, the factory bios on gbytes read voltages low for some reason.

On the main BIOS screen of pr3ch3rs 13, the very first thing you see after tapping
delete, press Ctrl+F1, you'll notice the screen hick-up, then open the CPUmenu and all your memory timming adjustments will be at your disposal, the same with the AGPmenu
adjustments that make sense.

It really is the better BIOS for your 7N400-PRO. you'll love the O/C's you'll get with this board and your 2500.

Get the CPUID "clock-gen" too...you have that 2500 running @ 2.5- 2.6ghz in no time flat.

Do you have a link to that by chance?

And does it work on The Pro2 version?

Quote: Originally Posted by neotheducky Do you have a link to that by chance? And does it work on The Pro2 version?

FOUND IT!..

here ya go

Ive been searching the amd forums and it seems that the Pro2 is not a supported revision. Its not supported because they changed alot of the hardware from the Pro1 which you have Zen. Im still searching, but the HARDM3NU bios will not work for us Pro2 owners

neo your not the only one with that problem... I have GA-7N400-L and i get the same this 53-56 under normal and 58-59 under gaming... with stock fan

Man....Bummer Neo, 'cause it's a really great bios too, sorry to hear that, but good to know for future refference...he ought to do another one for the Pro-2 guys...