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Lifer
- Jul 2, 2001
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I don't personally know who to blame for all the kt133-a problems, but I had both a kt7(not 'A' therefore no kt133-a/686B problems) - I used it trobuble free until I got my hands on an A7V133. The Asus board gave me hell, it may have been VIA's fault, it may have been creative's fault, but I finally gave up and dug out my KT7, viola! no more mysterious crashes under Win2k. The A7V is the third board which has been home to my SBLive! and that was the only time which it gave me trouble. I have come to the conclusion that both VIA and Creative are at fault (and from the good reports I have heard of other brands of boards, possibly a small amount of blame rests on ASUS' shoulders.) Anyway, I resolved to simply avoid and MB with the 686B southbridge and wait until the next generation of chipsets becomes available, one that is significantly more stable - at first I was looking at the much fabled next revision of the KT266. Since there has been so little talk of that lately and the Nforce looks so good I have decided to go in that direction. I have perfectly fine stability with my KT133 based board, so in the future I will consider a VIA based board - but I will be much more wary, and if NVIDIA manages to create a chipset that is all it professes to be, I will look to them first, at least until they create something that gives me as much trouble as the KT133A has. Oh, and as for the USB problem, I was able to resolve it thanks to the good ol' KT7 FAQ, but I may have been just a little lucky.