KT7-Raid Boot up problems.

[Roest]

I got problems booting up my KT7. The first time I boot up it was working ok; but then after it checked the ram which was ok. It froze...I couldn't do nothing and see nothing no more. Now whenever I try to reboot; it does nothing but turn on the fans? What could be causing this?

ABit Kt7-Raid
1.1ghz athlon
2x 256mb ram
creative geforce annihalator pro
maxtor 40g

 

[Daveman101]

Okay, here goes... I am having similar hell-sent problems with the KT7-Raid motherboard. It would seem that Abit makes no mention of problems with it on their website, but if you check out the newsgroups, over half of the posts relate to problems with this particular board. To be sure, the board will not complete a post+boot without problems. Sometimes the keyboard quits working. Other times, only a few keys quit working(specifically the arrow keys). I have tried everything I know that could possibly be done with this motherboard. When initially starting the system after a cold boot, we can actually get the floppy drive to begin reading a floppy. If you are really lucky, it will finish reading the floppy before the keyboard locks up. I have stripped the system to the BARE essentials. All that is left is an ATI Rage Pro 128 AGP video adapter, 256MB of PC133, ECC SDRAM, and a 1.1 GHz AMD Athlon processor. I have completely disconnected the hard drives, CD-ROM, Onstream Echo 30GB tape backup, etc... I have even swapped the memory out with a different stick of 256MB PC133 ECC SDRAM, as well as trying a different video card. I don't happen to have an extra AMD Athlon 1.1 GHz processor lying around, so the one that is in there is just gonna have to do. I flashed the BIOS and the keyboard at least doesn't lock up AS OFTEN as it did before.(I was very worried about even trying this with the track record this system has displayed with lockups.) The power supply is a 300 Watt OEM, supplied with the Enlight server case I purchased for the system. I am just wondering if anyone knows of problems similar to these with this mainboard before I send it back to Abit with a little note attached, describing precisely how to make this board fit up their ___. Even if I do manage to get it working, I think AMD may just have lost a customer for the server market, at least until they can prove some stability. And even if I can get this board working, I believe it is destined for a desktop somewhere. I don't trust it for a server at this point.