Has anyone else experienced this?

[hausdave]

Over the past year I have built a machine with a 800MHZ athlon slot A and a Abit ka7, and two machines with 900MHZ athlon slot A and Abit ka7-100 for some other people. My buddy built an 800MHZ Athlon slot A with KA7-100 and I have two macjines at my house wityh same mobo/chip combo. The first three machines above have all had problems to where I had to replace chip and mobo....Anyone else seen this phenomenon?

 

[DARRIN]

What kind of problems?

My wife has a 800MHz athlon oc'ed to 900. Been running fine for a year or so. On an Asus K7V though. Maybe time to switch mobo manufacturers.

 

[DarkOmen]

I will have to agree with DARRIN..
Abit is a good mobo manufacturer.. but if it were me and I had those problems I woudl switch.. might want to try MSI? they make rock solid Mobos! stable too. asus are nice too

 

[hausdave]

I have also since then built about the same number of machines using the socket AMD processor and the KT7 and KT7 raid and had no problems (knock on wood)

 

[THutchcraft]

What problems did you have exdactly that made you swap the Mobo/Chip?

 

[Electric Amish]

The only problems I ever had with my Abit KA7/Athlon 700 were some soundcard conflicts.

amish

 

[hausdave]

The machine would simply not boot or do anything. I always first check power supply but that was never it. My personal machines have run non-stop painlessly since I bought 'em but the ones I bought for these otther people just plain died. Unfortunately I live in Florida which is the lightning capital of the universe and in every instance there was not a good durge protector so I am leaning toward this cause. My latest "victim" boots...posts..and then monitor goes black and no activity except fans. I replaced power supply and got the same deal...put differnt CPU in and same thing...