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External Since: Aug 20, 2005 Posts: 3

Hi, I`m a recent convert to Gigabyte from Abit. I can say that their website
information is not as good as Abit`s and it remains to be seen if their
mobos will be as permanently reliable as my Abits have. My new Gigabyte
965-DS3 board is working well at the moment with no snags.

I have one technical question though, it does not seem possible to use a DVD
drive connected in DOS. It can be booted to DOS from a bootable CD but the
DOS driver(oakcdrom.sys) says that it does not find any drives yet they work
with older chipsets fine in DOS. Does the 965 chipset require a different
driver?

In case you wonder, I use PQDI backup in DOS. It works every time and
obviates the need for system restore which only works occasionally. If I
can`t read CDs in DOS then I have to keep the backups on the HD!

External Since: Aug 09, 2006 Posts: 1

I don't know the answer to your question, except to suggest that hard
drives are getting cheap and it might actually be easier to keep
fresher, bigger backups on HD, rather than burn DVDs. Maybe also try
using S.M.A.R.T., or a second drive or second computer for the backup.