How do all these relate? Compatibility. uggh
1st off Iwill KK266 (via KT133a) boards have a volatage issue with the GF4 ti series. seems Nvidia is out of specs and wont run on certain MBs who dont provide a 1.5v imediatly on startup. I havent verified that it is for sure Nvidia in the wrong, but that is what Iwill is claiming. btw i love the KK266 board in every other way.
I only tried usin the VIA KT266A chipset with the Shuttle AK36GTR. what a headache. It had every problem I could imagine with Winxp and then some. Hours of research revelead lots of people having problems there. I ended up RMAing it when it failed to POST again and again. In all fairness it was probably a bad board causing my problems, and i cant conclusibvly blame it on VIA.
Which lead me to go with the Nforce. What a marvelous board. Ive never had such an easy time seting up a computer. Works flawlessly with Win XP. Even though I was completly happy with win2k, im glad i have a system that can stably run XP. I did have quite a scare when I tried switching the jumpers on the asus before i even tried to boot it up. I correctly set the jumpers but it would boot, or display anything with any of my video cards. After finaly switching the jumpers back to default I was able to boot and change the CPU/DRAM frequency via the bios instead. Im still not sure why they have the setings both on the board and in the BIOS.
I dont know if this will interest or help anyone but After 3 weeks and coutnless hours trying to trouble shoot these things, I felt like telling someone.
On a side note- I have never had to RMA anything, but Newegg made it extremely painless. offering a full refund no questions asked and geting my Nforce here asap.
1st off Iwill KK266 (via KT133a) boards have a volatage issue with the GF4 ti series. seems Nvidia is out of specs and wont run on certain MBs who dont provide a 1.5v imediatly on startup. I havent verified that it is for sure Nvidia in the wrong, but that is what Iwill is claiming. btw i love the KK266 board in every other way.
I only tried usin the VIA KT266A chipset with the Shuttle AK36GTR. what a headache. It had every problem I could imagine with Winxp and then some. Hours of research revelead lots of people having problems there. I ended up RMAing it when it failed to POST again and again. In all fairness it was probably a bad board causing my problems, and i cant conclusibvly blame it on VIA.
Which lead me to go with the Nforce. What a marvelous board. Ive never had such an easy time seting up a computer. Works flawlessly with Win XP. Even though I was completly happy with win2k, im glad i have a system that can stably run XP. I did have quite a scare when I tried switching the jumpers on the asus before i even tried to boot it up. I correctly set the jumpers but it would boot, or display anything with any of my video cards. After finaly switching the jumpers back to default I was able to boot and change the CPU/DRAM frequency via the bios instead. Im still not sure why they have the setings both on the board and in the BIOS.
I dont know if this will interest or help anyone but After 3 weeks and coutnless hours trying to trouble shoot these things, I felt like telling someone.
On a side note- I have never had to RMA anything, but Newegg made it extremely painless. offering a full refund no questions asked and geting my Nforce here asap.
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