Need older Mobo

[JoeBaD]

I've had it with my son's ASUS A7V mobo.

I've had nothing but troubles with this board since day one. I've tweaked it every which way and it would be OK for a while and then various problems would resurface. I'm junking this board. I will not spend another minute messing with it.

After that being said.

I'm looking for a replacement mobo which I can use my AMD 1.4 and my PC133 ram. No overclocking. Just rock solid reliability.

What do you guys suggest?

many thanks

 

[Peter]

The usual suspect would be ECS K7S5A. But before you switch, check whether the RAM is OK, whether the CPU is cooled properly (which is easily screwed up with a 1400 MHz T-Bird, these are HOT), and whether the power supply is adequate. Any of these problems would persist if you change the mainboard.

regards, Peter

 

[CYoung]

An Abit KG7 would be a good choice here. With the later BIOS'es, it is rock solid stable, handles the RAM and CPU you spec, and can be found on eBay for less than $50 new in box. I use one of these in one of my systems, and it is a really good mobo.

 

[TourGuide]

In a totally selfless gesture, I offer you this link to a pretty good trader's thread. Either one of these would be fine choices and both would support your 1.4. I had good luck with both boards.

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

you probably won't like my answer after having endlessly fiddled with an A7V, But the A7V133 was a vastly superior board to the A7V. Yes, I know this firsthand as I personally dumped my A7V/ Athlon setup to go back to an Intel solution after endless un-explainable lockups/ crashes anytime I approached the 1GHZ mark. After a short while, I went and bought an A7V133 to mess around with and give the platform a second chance..Guess what, That A7V133 was an awesome board(With Athlon 1.2 and AXP 1600+) and reigned in my box until DDR boards came out.

 

[Zap]

Besides the ECS K7S5A, look into the Shuttle AK32L and AK32A. Those are KT266 and KT266A boards with both DDR and SDRAM slots, and support all socket A CPUs. All of these boards should be within a few dollars of each other, and probably none of them overclocks worth a darn.

As Peter said, those 1.4 Tbirds ran hot. I've seen my share of flakey 1.2-1.4 Tbirds (including ones never overclocked) perhaps from running too hot. In the meantime, until you come up with a motherboard or other solution, try underclocking. At 100MHz FSB, the CPU should run at 1050, to see if it's more stable.