My MSI K7T Pro 2A died. Good replacement?

[gittyup]

I am looking to replace my MSI K7T Pro 2A MB that died this weekend. I have a Duron 800 currently attached to it. I am looking to upgrade to 1.4 or so GHz. WHat would be a good stable board. And, I am not looking to break the bank also. I am not interested in over clocking. I prefer stability. Thanks for any input....

 

[CP8]

Hi there,

I have 2 dead MSI K7T Pro2a motherboards right now. And my friend's (also pro2a) died last week. I think its a problem with the voltage regulators. (the four square black things at the top) Could be a power supply issue that caused them to fail, I'm not sure. Do you have any idea what happened to yours?

I think this may be a design defect, and if I could find the receipt, i would try and RMA... But msi has a crappy rma program, (ie none). And my supplier will most likely not touch it. Anyone have any ideas for these 3 boards?

Anyway... If you want to stick with msi, the ultra kt3 and ultra kt3-aru boards are really nice..

Happy shopping!
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Atleast there are good things that comes out of a hardware failure

 

[DAPUNISHER]

MSI does have an RMA program for end-users and it's quite good, however, I had a Pro2 die after 9 months and the Pro-2A they replaced it with died in about 2 weeks :frown: Anyways, since your looking to upgrade I suggest you get a XP 1800+/K7S5A combo as it'll be very fast and allow you to use the memory you have now

 

[michaelsaxon]

My dad's Abit KT7A is possibly dead and someone recommended this MSI board as a good replacement for it... reading this thread makes me wonder if I should just stick with another KT7A? Any advice?

 

[CP8]

Dont get the msi pro2a. Get the msi kt7 turbo. It doesnt have this defect.

 

[pillage2001]

Asus is a good replacement.

 

[gittyup]

I was looking at the following ECS board. Although, I will have to change memory to DDR, it looks like a decent board. Any thoughts?

ECS VIA KT266A Chipset ATX Motherboard Model K7VTA3 Version 2.0 - RETAIL BOX

 

[paulsaz]

My K7T Pro 2A died today also. I replaced it with the ECS KS75A for now so I could use my 512 PC133 memory. Stange how all of the K7T Pro 2A's are going dead now.

Paul

 

[alcopro]

I have the ECS k7s5a and I really like the board, very very stable, i used 256k of pc133 until I was able to upgrade to pc2100 DDR ram and have had no problems with either configuration. I recommend the ECS board for now until the kt400's come out, or until AMD makes a 133 fsb athlon

Good Luck

P.S. Shuttle makes an excellent kt266a board also which is inexpensive now - the AK31A or their newer AK35GTR for a few $ more

 

[Dethoff]

I had the MSI K7T Pro which failed after a year and was replaced by MSI with another K7T Pro.

When it recently failed a second time I called MSI and complained. They have agreed to replace it with the upgraded MSI K7T Turbo 2. I expect to receve it any day now.

As it seems the earlier 6330 boards had a high failure rate, MSI is making good for those who complain about it.

Hope this helps.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

or until AMD makes a 133 fsb athlon

WTF are you babbling about???

 

[KennyH]

Pick up an Asus, Shuttle or the newer MSI K7T Turbo mobo

 

[polypterus]

Mine died today too. And this is my second one... :| The first one was replaced by the vendor (Monarch), they won't replace it now that it's been over a year since I ordered the first one... will MSI RMA it?

But I don't know what to do until then... I could get the K7S5A and continue to use my SDRAM, but I kinda wanna upgrade anyway, but don't really have the money for cpu/mobo/DDR all at the same time. Does the K7S5A support an XP cpu if I upgrade later? Is it a lot slower than say the KT266A chipset?

dc

 

[paulsaz]

Mine died on Monday. I also bought mine from Monarch Computers. I got mine in December of 2000. I called MSI on Wednesday and they did do an RMA on it. It has a two year warranty.

Paul

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: paulsaz
Mine died on Monday. I also bought mine from Monarch Computers. I got mine in December of 2000. I called MSI on Wednesday and they did do an RMA on it. It has a two year warranty.

Paul

Actually it's 2 years parts and labor then another year parts with charge for labor. but in essence your correct since the labor would be more than a 2+ year old board is worth

 

[DAPUNISHER]

dougcio the K7S5A supports through the 2200+. I haven't checked but I won't be surprised if it supports the T-bred with a bios flash!

 

[xroyal]

I just got a new, retail Turbo2 RMA replacement from MSI for Pro 2A (including optional D led/USB). Took 2 weeks from getting RMA# to receipt. Needed to call LA tech support to accomplish. Tech rep very courteous and glad to help. Cost of the RMA (and new MB) = about $5.00 in phone calls and $4.25 in priority mailing costs (all they wanted was the MB, no other parts). I'm impressed with MSI's cooperation!

Edit: Turbo2 officially supports 2100+. They too may extend to Tbred since this MB is still for sale at such as Newegg.