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Giving up on ASUS K7V, Any advice on other Athlon boards?

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mgibbas

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After two months of hell with my ASUS K7V, I want to install a new Athlon mother board. I looking for something stable, any suggestions.


Warning...
If your considering an ASUS K7V, Be prepared for a rough time, and visit www.k7v.com for help.
 
MicroStar K7T Pro boards are good, cheap, and stable, but if you're wanting to overclock, wait a couple of weeks and get the "Pro 2" or whatever it's going to be called. You can't change the ratio with the K7T Pro.. Hopefully MicroStar'll release a BIOS that'll allow K7T Pro users to be able to change the ratio.

 
I'd agree with PlunX, i have the K7T Pro and its the most stable board ive ever used. The only thing lacking unfortunately is the overclocking abilities, but thats 'fixed' with the Pro 2. And according to Anand's review, its even more stable than the 'old' Pro.
 
I just bought a new K7V, and have had no problems. I bought it after reviewing a dozen sites that rated slot A's. It is sure a dream compared to my old FIC SD11. What kind of problems were you having?
 
The K7TPro is an AWESOME socket board, but you've got a slot baord. Are you lookinng for a socket now, or another slot?

As for your K7V experience, what makes you think you just didn't get a bad board???? Why throw your money away???? Get it exchanged under warranty!

Honestly, the K7V is NOT my favorite Slot A board. I prefer ANY Irongate board over it, any day, but I have had to use the boards A LOT and I RARELY have a problem.

I think after 3 months of hacking at it, we can rule out user error. Time to RMA the board.
 
jonnyGURU is right, K7V is a slot A board. The MSI K7T Pro1/2 are great boards. I like them a lot, specially they are sooo stable.
 
For Slot A, I've had the Gigabyte 7IXE since February and it too has been rock solid stable. I'd say go for the MSI K7 Pro (The slot board, may not be the correct name) or the Gigabyte 7IX/E.
 
Yeah my friend has a K7V also.. no probs at all, runs fast and stable
it's how people have it setup and what's in it. unless the friggin board is defective!!

my friend with his K7V still likes my system better though 🙂
 
Get an AOpen AK72. I'm using it for about 6 months now: fast and extremely stable! Not too got for overclocking though.
 
K7V ( with latest Via 4-in-1 drivers )
Athlon 700
256Mb Crucial PC133 SDRAM
20.5 Gb WD ATA/66 7200rpm HDD
HP 9100i CD-RW
Pioneer 104s DVD
LS-120
Maxi Gamer Xentor32 ( with latest drivers )
Win98SE
NIC ( Linksys ) 10/100MB Fast Ethernet conncted to local LAN and Cisco 675 DSL thru Hub

System works fine but get frequent "lock-ups" of mouse pointer? Re-boot only
way to un-lock.

Anybody have any suggestions for what may be the root cause? Memory? LAN issue?
Also, REALLY appreciate any suggestions for BIOS settings on the K7V to optimize configuration but not necessarily OC...

Thanks!
Thar.
 
I have a k7v and I got shietloads of mouse pointer lockups. It sucks. I'm buying an msi 6191 or an msi 6195 (k7pro).
 
mine runs fine , but locks up during games sometimes. I think all computers do that sometimes and I was suspecting the video card first
of course the slot A 800Mhz chip feels alot hotter than my PII 450
I'm just gonna keep it, I've had worse problems with with other Mbs.
still running the beta bios (???) scared to mess with that right now.
don't fix what ain't broke!
 
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