Abit KT7 Lockups

[surd615]

I have an Abit KT7 MB with 600Mhz Duron. It locks up randomly even at the normal CPU speed and voltage. This happens in both Win98SE and Win2kPro. I have a Voodoo Banshee, SB live, Kingston PCI NIC and 128MB of PC100 SDRAM. Is the problem because of the memory? All of the boards and memory worked fine in a 450PII. Any advice/suggestions appreciated. Thanks

 

[Compellor]

Go here:

ABIT KT7 FAQ

This helped me a lot.

 

[DancingBear]

On my system, my Maxtor HD caused lock ups. Moving it onto the raid controller solved the problem.

 

[SkyDiver]

I've got two IBM 75GXP's (non-Raided) on the HighPoint ATA100 controller and under heavy use after 2 hours or so, I lock up almost completely.

Can't figure it out, but wondering if it might be BIOS-related or specifically the HP controller.

SkyDiver

 

[AMDfreak]

Skydiver, I'm curious, when you get the lockup what happens? Does your screen just freeze with the IDE light staying on or is it different? What are your CPU and mem BIOS settings?

 

[hopster]

I've been told forcing ata-33 on ata66/ata100 devices can solve lots of HD problems on these boards... I'm about it try it myself.

 

[teo]

Had the same problem myself.It went away when i used a USB to PS/2 adapter.While trying to get my sound card to work i did fresh installs of win98 and win2000 with all VIA updates and patches.Thought i might try again to use the USB port for my mouse and now it works fine.Possibly the USB dosn't set up or update properly with a device connected?You might try uninstalling then installing the USB ports with a PS/2-USB adapter then reconnecting the mouse to the USB. I'm no rocket scientest here,i usually fix by breaking it first,but it worked for me....TEO

 

[jonnyGURU]

teo: There is a known issue with the Abit USB. My machine would lock with heavy internet traffic with a USB keyboard and a NIC in slot 4. A friend of mine's Abit based machine would not even post with the keyboard plugged in and a sound card in slot 6.

Guess what!

The USB shares with PCI slot 4 and 6! :Q