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Help me choose a board. I want a decent STABLE board which has some overclocking potential. However, stabiltiy is the KEY. Don't care about the RAID. Bought Adaptec 2400a for my WD120 Gb disks. THX

Hi, I'm having the following problem. Running Win98se on a KT7 board with KT7UL bios installed and 3 dimms of PC133 CAS2 Mushkin memory at 133Mhz (strongest mem. timings) -> NO PROBLEM Running Win98se on a KT7 board with KT7R bios installed and 3 dimms of PC133 CAS2 Mushkin memory at 133Mhz...

THX, The reason why I included ALL components is that it has to be able to work along with all these components. I have had some bad experiences lately with another system :( Additionally, both systems are about 3500$. I have the intention to add a second processor if it's a bit more affordable...

Hi, I'm at the start of building a new system. Two configurations are open. Comments on what would be the best system to choose ? Stability, other issues, ... (it needs to run Win2k, use USB - digital camera, ...) AOPEN CASE HQ08 ATX GRAY 300W Abit KT7A FSB133 AMD Athlon Socket A 1GHz...

Hi, I'm using the Abit KT7 board now for 3 months. SB Live card used in my system and worked +- stable for 3 months. Until last week. No sound and BOD ! Tried to do all the tricks as mentioned before. No luck. Simply removed that damn SB Live and everything worked stable for 100%. Inserted a...

Thanks, Personally my preference is with an AMD based system (price/performance). What I didn't like is that I experencied some incompatibility problems when adding cards (TV card, soundcard, ...). Especially the SB Live caused quite some headaches. What I forgot to tell is that it will contain...

Hi, I have been asked to build a new PC. I have build an Athlon based system recently. Now, due to his recent experience, I'm not in favour of building again an Athlon system. I have had too much incompatibilities with the different MB I tried. (It costed me quite some money) Ok, I finally...

What you did could indeed solve maybe the problems for you but it didn't for mine. Believe me I've tried ALL kinds of settings. Ranging from single master drive to ... No solution for me. It was not only the DMA issue that concerned me. From time to time I got coasters for whatever reason...

Wet Willy, Purchased the Abit KT board. ALL PROBLEMS SOLVED !!!!! DMA support on the Plextor 12/10/32 works flawlessly. My Thunderbird 700 is even stable at 900Mhz ! On the A7V I hardly got it stable on 750Mhz. The only problem is that I can't do FSB overclocking. For some reason I get random...

Well, Tried all the plextor Firmware upgrades, 3 versions of the Via drivers, upgrades 3 times mij MB bios (currently 1004a) not luck whatsoever ! Really I've had it with this board. Last week I have had so much problems with the board. Two weeks ago I thought my problems where solved. In the...

WetWilly, It seems that you are right on spot here. I installed the plextor on an older computer which I own (Asus TXP4). I runs flawlessly !!!!!!!!!!!!!! DMA checked ! I tried it under Win2000 and Win98. It worked perfectly. I'm almost sure this is an Asus related problem. I suspected problems...

As I see other people having no problems on their MB (not A7V) it seems to me that this is an ASUS problem. I took this issue up with plextor support but the answer was not satisfactory (workaround) at this point. I will try to get some answers of ASUS support. This start to be quite annoying...

Sorry, Forgot to mention. I'm talking about the Plextor 12/10/32 drive. I'm using one of the tools (I believe VIADMATOOL) supplied with 4-in-1 driver of VIA to see if DAM is enabled. This tool reports the plex drive as supporting DMA. When installing the drivers this tool reports that DMA is...

Hi, Using the A7V board and having the same problems. Send an e-mail to plextor explaining my problem. No response. The only way to get it working is switching off DMA support. I suppose it supports DMA mode but for some reason it won't work. Forcing it in the bios DMA results in not being able...