Suggestions for replacement for Gigabyte P35C-DS3R mo-bo

[BionicJohn]

The issue is that on boot up, hard drive detection is erratic. I've changed the SATA cables but detection still seems to be as much miss as hit.

When the system's working, the HHDs all check out as healthy, so I'm suspecting the 4 year old mo-bo is on the way out.

[Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 0, SMART Status: Healthy
[Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 1, SMART Status: Healthy
[Hard drive] (640.13 GB) -- drive 2, SMART Status: Healthy

The mo-bo is a Gigabyte P35C-DS3R - last flash updated to F4 09/07/2007.

What I'm looking for is a newer replacement which will accept the essentials without problem, i.e.

Socket 775 for an Intel Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz processor
4Gb DDR3 RAM
NVidia GeForce 8600GTS vid card
Existing power supply
3 SATA hard drives and 2 DVD drives.

I'm being cheapskate as I've now retried with lots of time and little money!

So, what should I look at as straight swap for the Gigabyte P35C-DS3R (bar perhaps some new drivers)?

Cheers, John.

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[hairlessupportmonkey]

or a few gigs of ddr2 is around £30

I just bought new mobo, cpu, and ram - £500..... ooops... missus defo not looking... will take heat later....

so, have a skt 775 quad core, 4GB ram and 965 foxconn mobo spare ;-)

ACSS - SME

 

[BionicJohn]

Have the central heating…

Already have 4Gb of DDR3…

And the mo-bo's been behaving since I originally posted, so maybe it was loose cables?

Liverpool: Capital of Culture 2008
Anfield: Capital of Football since 1892
Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.