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Some of us know about this problem but for new Members & those that don`t know, read this(from Riva3d.com),ABIT KA7 GF2 Problems - Posted Thursday, July 20, 2000 by babblin5 -
ABIT has acknowledged that their KA7 motherboard is having problems with certain GeForce 2 GTS boards. Here's ABIT's official response (at least in Europe) to the issue:
ABIT have recently discovered an incompatibility between our KA7 (and KA7-100) and some brands of GeForce 2 GTS chipset based graphics cards. The symptom of this is that on a cold Boot the video card will fail to initialise causing the system to beep, reporting a video error. Upon resetting (you may have to reset a few times) you will get a picture. The machine will then boot and function normally while left on.
The system will need a slight modification in order to cure this inconvenience. It may be possible that the modification could be provided by either party in order to make their own product work in a wider range of systems, but please be aware that this is an incompatibility rather than a fault with either device and so the suggested course of action from another manufacturer may simply be to replace either the board or VGA card with a rival, which would also eliminate the problem.
If you are suffering from this problem then we can modify the mainboard for you directly, however, although we will supply the labour and component free of charge we will expect you to cover the cost of getting the mainboard to and from us.
North American KA7 users experiencing these problems will no doubt want to contact ABIT about the problem: http://www.abit-usa.com/english/contact/index.htm
ABIT has acknowledged that their KA7 motherboard is having problems with certain GeForce 2 GTS boards. Here's ABIT's official response (at least in Europe) to the issue:
ABIT have recently discovered an incompatibility between our KA7 (and KA7-100) and some brands of GeForce 2 GTS chipset based graphics cards. The symptom of this is that on a cold Boot the video card will fail to initialise causing the system to beep, reporting a video error. Upon resetting (you may have to reset a few times) you will get a picture. The machine will then boot and function normally while left on.
The system will need a slight modification in order to cure this inconvenience. It may be possible that the modification could be provided by either party in order to make their own product work in a wider range of systems, but please be aware that this is an incompatibility rather than a fault with either device and so the suggested course of action from another manufacturer may simply be to replace either the board or VGA card with a rival, which would also eliminate the problem.
If you are suffering from this problem then we can modify the mainboard for you directly, however, although we will supply the labour and component free of charge we will expect you to cover the cost of getting the mainboard to and from us.
North American KA7 users experiencing these problems will no doubt want to contact ABIT about the problem: http://www.abit-usa.com/english/contact/index.htm
