I have the IWill KK266-R version 1.0 bought back in March but not using the raid function. I am using the orginal bios with the VIA drivers from the cdand running windows 98 (FE with installed patches). I have random lock-ups playing games on POGO.com and sometimes when playing DVD movies and when using windows defrag. I dont know if this has anything to do with the Sound Blaster X-gamer sound card or the problem with large file transfers? I really like the board but it's like the orginal poster said I want more stability more than anything. I do not over clock, my IBM hard drive is on the ATA-100 not on the raid port and I have a DVD and CDRW on the same channel.
I used to have all ABIT for several years. I then bought three 1333's and none of them would do over 1333 so I went out and bought an IWILL KK266 R and now I own three KK266 boards and all of my chips will do 1500 +. The only problem I have had to date is with win 2000 and the raid. All I did was switch to the Shadow1 bios and all is fine.
gigantor, just making sure here, but you are using Win95 OSR2, Win98, WinMe, or Win2k, right? And you did a fresh install when setting this up? If yes to both, I'm stumped. Maybe you have a defective southbridge? Mine works fine in Win98SE.
I received my IWILL KK266 3 weeks ago, it WAS sweet, I was very well pleased with it. But today it died.
Now to add to the story, I have a friend building a new system, I talked him into getting the same MB. He couldn't get it to boot. Or if it did it would crash. Then the new power supply fried, he got a new power supply and the MB did the same thing. So we figured the PS fried the MB. They sent him a new MB and he has the same problems with it, his problem is he only has one vid card the ATI Radion 32meg. So he can't check to see if its a compatability problem.
Tomorrow he is picking up ether the MSI or ASUS board. I'm hopping they will let me get a different brand, but if not I will just hold my breath and hope for the best.
BTW, I have a Leadtek Gefoce DDR card, going to the 1.2 Thunderbird game it new life. Games played great, no prolems what so ever. Serious Sam, Quake3, Unreal Tourney. ECT
Now to add to the story, I have a friend building a new system, I talked him into getting the same MB. He couldn't get it to boot. Or if it did it would crash. Then the new power supply fried, he got a new power supply and the MB did the same thing. So we figured the PS fried the MB. They sent him a new MB and he has the same problems with it, his problem is he only has one vid card the ATI Radion 32meg. So he can't check to see if its a compatability problem.
Tomorrow he is picking up ether the MSI or ASUS board. I'm hopping they will let me get a different brand, but if not I will just hold my breath and hope for the best.
BTW, I have a Leadtek Gefoce DDR card, going to the 1.2 Thunderbird game it new life. Games played great, no prolems what so ever. Serious Sam, Quake3, Unreal Tourney. ECT
I've put together four systems with this MB and no problems....stable and a good overclocker. Decent onboard sound too.
Super6
Super6
BigDog,
I just got this mobo for my wife's office machine and we will be using Win2K. Where can I get this Shadow1 bios of whence you speak in case we have problems? Any other problems with Win2K & your setup?
Iwill KK266-R
Tbird 1.2 @133
512 Crucial PC133 CL2
Hercules MX 200
Linksys 10/100 nic
Kenwood 52X
Phillips 4/4/32 CD-RW
CDI full tower case w/8 case fans
2-Maxtor 7200 rpm 30gb HD
PC Power & Cooling TurboCool 350 watt PS
USR ISA Courier Modem
Zip100 EIDE
I just got this mobo for my wife's office machine and we will be using Win2K. Where can I get this Shadow1 bios of whence you speak in case we have problems? Any other problems with Win2K & your setup?
Iwill KK266-R
Tbird 1.2 @133
512 Crucial PC133 CL2
Hercules MX 200
Linksys 10/100 nic
Kenwood 52X
Phillips 4/4/32 CD-RW
CDI full tower case w/8 case fans
2-Maxtor 7200 rpm 30gb HD
PC Power & Cooling TurboCool 350 watt PS
USR ISA Courier Modem
Zip100 EIDE
Well, new mobo (Iwill KK266) and cpu (T-bird 1.2/266) arrived yesterday, along with a Volcano II fan.
It took me less than an hour, but I pulled my old Abit KA7/Athlon 700 from the case, popped in the new mobo/cpu, hooked up all the wires (with my 2 year old climbing on my back and asking a hundred questions, giggling). Powered it up, set some default BIOS configs for safety, and booted right into Windows. A few reboots later, new hardware discovered, etc., and up it came, right into my old environment!
I get mad at MS every day, but this is something that's impressed me. This system started out as a K62/400, and I swapped out the mobo/cpu acouple of times (from an Soyo to an Asus mobo, along with a roll of CPUs from the 400 to a K6-III+@550). Same OS, just some rediscovery of the new mobo and drivers. Later I swapped the K6 HW for the Abit/Athlon, and again, without reinstalling Windows that system came up and ran until the Abit/Athlon died. Now I've just done the same with the new Iwill/T-bird, and it's running. No OS install or re-install.
Question: How many others have had one OS install support four new mobos? I'm pretty impressed. And, until the Abit/T-Bird died it was "unusually" stable for a Win98SE system. I'd planned on a clean install of this system, but I'll see.
So, out-of-the-box the Iwill ran great. I tweaked it a bit (fsb to 148, mult at 9.0, default voltages), and pushed the clock & memory speed up on my GeForce 2 MX. I installed the latest VIA drivers. Running Sandra, the disk scores were measly, but I found DMA had been disabled, so I re-enabled it and the scores were great across the board in all tests (disk, cpu, mem). I ran burn-in-test through a couple full cycles with no errors, and a few passes of 3DMark2000 without errors (score 5300). I'm still running the BIOS it was shipped with (dated April 26th), so that may be something I need to update.
So, I'm delighted with the Iwill KK266 so far, not one crash or hang, and it's certainly speed! Certainly seems like a great mobo.
Thanks,
Brats
It took me less than an hour, but I pulled my old Abit KA7/Athlon 700 from the case, popped in the new mobo/cpu, hooked up all the wires (with my 2 year old climbing on my back and asking a hundred questions, giggling). Powered it up, set some default BIOS configs for safety, and booted right into Windows. A few reboots later, new hardware discovered, etc., and up it came, right into my old environment!
I get mad at MS every day, but this is something that's impressed me. This system started out as a K62/400, and I swapped out the mobo/cpu acouple of times (from an Soyo to an Asus mobo, along with a roll of CPUs from the 400 to a K6-III+@550). Same OS, just some rediscovery of the new mobo and drivers. Later I swapped the K6 HW for the Abit/Athlon, and again, without reinstalling Windows that system came up and ran until the Abit/Athlon died. Now I've just done the same with the new Iwill/T-bird, and it's running. No OS install or re-install.
Question: How many others have had one OS install support four new mobos? I'm pretty impressed. And, until the Abit/T-Bird died it was "unusually" stable for a Win98SE system. I'd planned on a clean install of this system, but I'll see.
So, out-of-the-box the Iwill ran great. I tweaked it a bit (fsb to 148, mult at 9.0, default voltages), and pushed the clock & memory speed up on my GeForce 2 MX. I installed the latest VIA drivers. Running Sandra, the disk scores were measly, but I found DMA had been disabled, so I re-enabled it and the scores were great across the board in all tests (disk, cpu, mem). I ran burn-in-test through a couple full cycles with no errors, and a few passes of 3DMark2000 without errors (score 5300). I'm still running the BIOS it was shipped with (dated April 26th), so that may be something I need to update.
So, I'm delighted with the Iwill KK266 so far, not one crash or hang, and it's certainly speed! Certainly seems like a great mobo.
Thanks,
Brats
I don't know how you managed to get one OS through 4 mobo/cpu combos... I have one pc that hasn't changed over 2 years, and it is incredibly unstable! I'll probably be wiping that one thiss weekend, though.... what's your secret?
Well, I have to say the install of this motherboard wasnt exactly trouble free for me. The RAID setup has given me trouble (still is!) but otherwise it was quite problem free, easy to setup, and sheesh its quick!
acexg1:
<< I don't know how you managed to get one OS through 4 mobo/cpu combos... what's your secret? >>
No secret, I'm surprised as well. I've been using this new Iwill/T-Bird system daily since the upgrade, and it's hung once now, when I was tweaking the memory settings (I, stupidly, bought generic PC133 memory, and it doesn't tweak well although it's much better in this mobo than in the previous Abit).
I'm running an fsb of 154, cpu mult 9.0, and memory set to "normal" (i.e., slow). It's been running like a rock. Setting the memory to "fast" with this fsb gave me the hang.
About the only "special" things I've done to the OS is that I use RegCleaner to get rid of registry clutter, and keep it updated via Windows update. I make a point too of removing old utils, etc.
I'd really planned to wipe the system and install the new hardware, but the way it's running I'll just keep it as it is.
<< I don't know how you managed to get one OS through 4 mobo/cpu combos... what's your secret?
>>No secret, I'm surprised as well. I've been using this new Iwill/T-Bird system daily since the upgrade, and it's hung once now, when I was tweaking the memory settings (I, stupidly, bought generic PC133 memory, and it doesn't tweak well although it's much better in this mobo than in the previous Abit).
I'm running an fsb of 154, cpu mult 9.0, and memory set to "normal" (i.e., slow). It's been running like a rock. Setting the memory to "fast" with this fsb gave me the hang.
About the only "special" things I've done to the OS is that I use RegCleaner to get rid of registry clutter, and keep it updated via Windows update. I make a point too of removing old utils, etc.
I'd really planned to wipe the system and install the new hardware, but the way it's running I'll just keep it as it is.
<< Well, I have to say the install of this motherboard wasnt exactly trouble free for me. The RAID setup has given me trouble (still is!) but otherwise it was quite problem free, easy to setup, and sheesh its quick!
>>I didn't go with the RAID option, so I didn't have to fuss with it. What problems are you having?
All I have to say is that I have had nothing but problems with my kk266 and have had little or no help from iwill tech support. Now they have just done pissed me off and did me wrong. I would definitely not reccomend iwill.
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