These are my tips when experiencing problems with Gigabyte GA5AA / GA-5AA and installing or upgrading Windows 2000:
1. Toggle the "Assign IRQ to PCI" switch in the BIOS (attempts to resolve issues with the installed video card). Mine is currently disabled, but I remember having to have an IRQ assigned for a previous video card to work.
2. Remove/unplug all USB devices (essential to get upgrade to not hang).
3. Press F5 immediately during initial install phase and select "Standard PC" or "Other" from the menu (so that you don't get ACPI rubbish).
4. Obviously upgrade the BIOS to the latest version.
5. Disable on-board USB support in BIOS and buy a PCI USB-2 board (I don't believe the on-board USB support is USB 2.0).
Hope that this is of use to someone.
Now can someone tell me how to get this M/B and O/S combination to recognise a UDMA disk as UDMA and not as PIO mode?
