KT7A Memory questions

[jlanigan]

#1 Over on HardOCP Kyles review mentioned that the KT7A had problems supporting multiple dimms under windows 2000, he also reported that a fix may be to use two dimms in slots 1 and 3. Can anyone shed any light on the issue?
#2 the abit website does not mention ECC memory in it's specs for the KT7A, does this mean it can't support it?

#3 does ecc improve performance? there is very little difference in the price at the moment and i'm wondeing is it worth the extra five quid.

John

 

[kingz]

Not sure about the the DIMM slot 2 bug, I'll find out this weekend ECC will not improve performance. Most likely, it will hinder performace. Its error correction, plan and simple. You will NOT need ECC unless you are running a server that is "crictical"

 

[jlanigan]

Excellent stuff old bean, can you post your findings up here, I'm dying to know what the result will be, my board arrives next week

John

 

[Insane3D]

In the KT7A-RAID manual, it says it does not support EEC memory. I agree with kingz, there is no need for ECC and it can actually perform worse than regular memory. I have all three slots filled with 128mb dimms and I have had no stability issues in Win2K...

 

[Technonut]

I just setup my dual boot 98SE/2000 system again with the KT7AR. I have all 3 DIMM slots filled with no problems.

 

[elSmoko]

technonut, how did pull off dual boot? I bought a 45gig 7200 rpm ibm drive, should I just make two small partitions, and one really big one for the rest of my crap? and do you have to install stuff twice, once for win98 and once for win2k if you want access to them both in either os? My kt7a-raid arrives by next friday

- ElSmoko

 

[TRD]

i THINK that if you install W2000 over 98 or ME it will automatically give you the option to allow it to dual boot OS'es. BUT you have to install programs twice.

I DID see an interesting kida A/B/C switch at Office Depot that allows you to switch between boot drives sharing the same IDE slot for diiferent OS'es.

It was interesting.

 

[SandmanC4]

To Dual boot 9x/ME with 2k you install 9x/ME first and then install Windows 2k.
I would recommend having one partition for each OS and as you said a large partition for the DATA/GAMEs

With 45GB you could make a 2G C (for Win 9x/ME, Though 4GB+ may be supported with them, been awhile...) and another 2 or 4+ for Win2k)

If you want both OS's to use the same Program Files director you will need to make sure it is on FAT32 partition so both OSes can read it.

As mentioned you will need to install the software on both sides of the house to properly populate their respective Registries. I have done this with good success and haven't run across any problems, at least with the software I am using.

Also if it is a 98/2k dual boot you can install ME after the fact and have it overwrite the 98 system. It will even update the boot.ini (Which 2k uses to choose which OS to boot into)

Cheers

 

[Technonut]

<< technonut, how did pull off dual boot? >>


I just setup my two Maxtor 40GB ATA100 drives in RAID 0, installed Win98SE from a backup CDRESQ that I had made before, so I would not lose my data, and not have to reinstall programs, and set it up. Then I used Partition Magic to set a couple of partitions, rebooted to WIN98SE, stuck in the Win2000 CD, went for &quot;Advanced Options&quot;, and set it so I could install Win2000 on a separate partition, loaded the Highpont RAID driver by pressing F6 when Win2000 setup asked for it, and that was that.