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Fully loaded legacy-free Abit AT7 Socket-A motherboard. Avail in Japan now!

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Looks like an excellent motherboard to me.
First thing I do when I set up my system is disable the OLD and OUTDATED parallel and serial ports. Anyone who still wants these is living with some old hardware that I gave to my inlaws years ago. I don't see why any enthusiast would still want these. I wish we could get rid of the floppy drive too, but it looks like I see it in the second picture at the bottom of the board.

I could care less about onboard sound, I love my Hercules GTXP.

"Just another reason why ABit wil never get a dime from me"

That's fine, more for us.
 


<< Looks like an excellent motherboard to me.
First thing I do when I set up my system is disable the OLD and OUTDATED parallel and serial ports. Anyone who still wants these is living with some old hardware that I gave to my inlaws years ago. I don't see why any enthusiast would still want these. I wish we could get rid of the floppy drive too, but it looks like I see it in the second picture at the bottom of the board.

I could care less about onboard sound, I love my Hercules GTXP.

<EM>"<EM><STRONG><EM>Just another reason why ABit wil never get a dime from me"

<EM></STRONG>That's fine, more for us. >>



On my serial port I have the receiver for my IR remote. On my parrallel i have my laser printer, on my USB i have my inkket.

I use ps2 for my mouse and keyboard because there isn't the risk of a failed USB devices refresh and me losing my mouse and keyboard control in a game or something.

I dont do DV, and when I get a new external HDD, i will get one that comes with a usb22 or iee1394 interface card.
 


<< On my serial port I have the receiver for my IR remote. On my parrallel i have my laser printer, on my USB i have my inkket. >>


You know Abit also has a mobo with legacy parts if you like.
 


<< 2xfloppy drives >>


[mangled movie quote]
"2 floppy drives?!? You must be rich!"
"Oh, he's just kidding. Nobody has two floppy drives!"
[/mangled movie quote]


<< I flash my BIOS from CD. I have a "utilities" CD that I burn all of my BIOSes onto. >>


The more I hear you guys talk about this, the more I wonder about it...
On the rare occacion that I actually flash a BIOS, I boot to a DOS prompt with a floppy or a CD and then flash the file from the hard drive. Is that less safe? Am I just a gambler? 😉
 


<< On the rare occacion that I actually flash a BIOS, I boot to a DOS prompt with a floppy or a CD and then flash the file from the hard drive. Is that less safe? Am I just a gambler? >>


Nothing wrong with that, but DOS does not support NTFS and I don't feel like making a fat partition just for bios flash, so I do it either by floppy or cd.
 


<< DOS does not support NTFS and I don't feel like making a fat partition just for bios flash >>


Ahh, I KNEW there was a good reason! I always use FAT for my OS/game partitions and just use NTFS on my RAID for 4GB+ files 😉
 
wow...this board has everything i want in a mobo...except for the chipset.

mATX and 4 dimm banks?...sicknessssss
 
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