Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9

Hardware of this machine

  • box: Nexus Breeze 400 with psu. There is a faq.
  • power supply: Nexus NX-4090, 400W, silent
  • motherboard: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9, revision 1.1
  • memory: 1024 MB (2 x 512 MB) DDR SDRAM 400 MHz (aka PC-3200) DIMM (4 slots, max 4096 MB)
  • cpu: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.0 GHz
  • cpu cooler:
  • hard drives:
  • ad0: 76350MB at ata0-master UDMA100
  • ad4: 238474MB at ata2-master SATA150
  • ad6: 238475MB at ata3-master SATA150
  • ad8: 238475MB at ata4-master SATA150
  • ad10: 238475MB at ata5-master SATA150
  • optical drive: acd0: DVDR at ata1-master UDMA33
  • video: nVidia GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)
  • sound: pcm0 - nForce4 AC'97 Audio Controller - snd_ich
  • pcm0: at io 0xb800, 0xbc00 irq 23 bufsz 16384 kld snd_ich (1p/1r/0v channels duplex default)
  • network: re0 - Realtek RTL8169 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (currently not used)
  • nve0 / nfe0 - nForce4 Ethernet Controller (Gigabit) - on board
  • nve0: port 0xec00-0xec07 mem 0xed003000-0xed003fff irq 23 at device 10.0 on pci0
  • nve0: Ethernet address 00:14:85:8a:aa:64
  • miibus1: on nve0
  • ciphy0: on miibus1
  • ciphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto

  • nve0: Ethernet address: 00:14:85:8a:aa:64

  • usb: 10 ports, usb 2.0 (nVidia nForce4)

  • firewire: Texas Instruments (TI) - TSB82AA2 1394b OHCI-Lynx IEEE 1394 Host Controller
  • other: Hauppauge PVR-500MCE tv tuner card for analogue signals. Dual tuner.
  • bios: Award, version F12K, release date 2008/10/22..

OS testing: FreeBSD,

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Work log

2021-08-17: I re-created this page on my self-hosted web server.

2018-05-30: TestFDC - I set up the motherboard on a testbench today, and connected a 3.5 inch NEC FD1231 floppy drive to it, and ran TestFDC. Test results below.

tingo@kg-t2$ more fdc_ga-k8nf-9.txt
Report on FDC capabilities, issued 30/05/2018 14:15:06:
Single-Density at 250 kbps ............................ Failed
Single-Density at 300 kbps ............................ Not tested
Single-Density at 500 kbps ............................ Failed
Double-Density at 250 kbps ............................ Passed
Double-Density at 300 kbps ............................ Not tested
Double-Density at 500 kbps ............................ Passed
Double-Density at 250 kbps / 128 byte sectors ......... Failed
Double-Density at 300 kbps / 128 byte sectors ......... Not tested
Double-Density at 500 kbps / 128 byte sectors ......... Failed

ok

2012-10-12: Today I got a new PSU (for another machine), and decided to test this motherboard (using a breadboard setup). It turns out the motherboard is ok. Note: this motherboard doesn't recognize a usb keyboard for BIOS etc.

2011-08-08: motherboard failure? today I took down the machine to replace a couple of failed hard drives. Well, it turns out the machine didn't like that. Now it won't turn on at all. I took it apart and cleaned it thoroughly, but that didn't help. It still will not turn on. Occasionally the fans turns when I connect the PSU, but that's it. Perhaps the motherboard has developed bad capacitors, I don't know.

2009-12-29: I upgraded the bios from version F11 (released 2006/01/16) to version F12K (released 2008/10/22). I had to boot from a floppy (usb-connected), as the q-flash program didn't want to read from usb-connected floppy drive.

2009-12-20: The newest bios available now is version F12K, released 2008/10/22. The .exe file can be unpacked with 7za from atchivers/p7zip.

2006-12-18: BIOS upgraded to version F11. Previous version was F10. dmidecode still reports version F7. Strange.