Not alot of A7V133 posts is a good thing!

[cisco]

I always see the problem posts, like a warning to stay away from that MB, well my A7V133 was a breeze to install and runs great. I think some positive posts are OK too. Write what you like about it!

One thing I like is that the Asus Probe tells me my temperatures with one click. the previous MB I had ,
the K7V had Asus Probe (but never worked), I think it needed an add on sensor for it to become fully functional.
Just one thing I like about the A7V133!

 

[jamesbond007]

Would it hurt to apply a small amount of Arctic silver to the fan on the northbridge? I heard Asus doesn't do this for you....??? Any comments on that? I should be getting my board in here in a couple days....

 

[Dulanic]

I applied some AS Epoxy to mine. I would have used normal AS but I was in such a rush, the clips bugged me so I just cut them off hehe

 

[cisco]

JamesBond,
Mine came pre assembled and since its running great why mess with it (don't fix what ain't broke). you can damage the chip taking the fan off if you do it wrong. Especially the northbridge fan, because the presure involved with removing the fan can cause a cracked chip or bad connection on the board later, also you may void the warranty by doing that, I haven't tried, but am a technician and see customer inflicted damage that voids the warranty all the time on our products!

 

[Martijnos]

I'm very happy with my Asus A7V133. It was easy to set up (a lot easier than my Abit KT7) and it's fast and stable! My only complain is that it won't overclock very far. I can go up to 144mhz FSB (my ram can handle up to 150mhz or so), which is not bad, but certainly not great.

 

[jamesbond007]

You've got a point there Cisco. I was tempted to put the Blue Orb on my Asus V7700 Deluxe, but have decided not to because I don't want to lose a PCI slot as well as risk damage of doing something wrong. You just saved me 20 minutes

 

[Shack70]

I'm looking at these MBs! Anyone know where to get a deal on one?

 

[CrazyDog]

Martijnos,

Did you have any trouble installing Windows 98SE onto your ATA100 drive? I couldn't get it to install at first until I (my brother helping me) switched the HD to the second Primary controller. Once Windows was installed and we installed the Promise drivers, we were able to switch it back to the first Primary controller and Windows recognized it without a problem. I couldn't find any documentation about this anywhere. Did we just miss a step or is this the only way to go about it?

 

[Martijnos]

Crazydog,

no, I had no problems at all with installing Windows 98se on my 75gxp. I don't use the promise function yet, so I have no experience with it. Might come, if I buy a second harddrive for Raid.

 

[CrazyDog]

Is Raid support the only thing you lose by not using the Ultra ATA100 IDE connectors? Don't you lose support for 100MB/s burst transfer rates? Maybe I'm confused. You didn't use the Ultra100 IDE connectors to hook up your HD?

 

[Dulanic]

CrazyDog, all 4 IDE channels are ATA100, both the Promise controller, and the normal IDE that are from the VIA southbridge.

 

[SunGoku]

I just finished installing all the software on Saturday. My Asus A7V133 is great, my Sandra score for CPU benchmark even beat Tomshardware's Athlon 1.2 Ghz DDR system CPU score

Rock stable, not even one crash, once I figured out how far I can push my processor. I OC my 1 Ghz athlon to 1.2 Ghz at 133FSB running on default voltage.

I run on Win2k Pro. I didn't have the latest promise driver so I had to put my HDD on the regular ATA100 IDE slot, installed Win2k Pro, get online and download the latest promise driver from Asus, install the driver, open the case up and swap the HDD back to the promise controller slot.

 

[CrazyDog]

So other than Raid 0 support and the fact that you get two extra connectors, is there any advantage to using the Promise IDE connectors over the other IDE connectors?

 

[ogn]

My only complaint is that the RAID is weak! You cannot install Win2K on it as the boot device. Promise made this a "lite" version of the controller. I'm sure it's just a driver issue to keep the value of their "real" RAID cards up. Asus shouldn't advertise this as RAID because it's not completely true. Only two hard drive support for RAID? What's up with that!
Anyway, there's already a hack for it to be a full RAID, but that's a different issue. I can't complain about the stability though. Added a little Arctic Silver under the north bridge with a Blue Orb and Arctic Silver plus Artic Cooler and it's running my Duron 600 at 1Ghz (7.5 x 133).

 

[Blakwngbrd]

Dulanic, are you sure all four channels are ATA100? I was under the impression that only 4 of them (one pair of connections with two channels each) were ATA100, and the other two were ATA66.

 

[jamesbond007]

Hey. I have the Asus A7V133 board, and yes, they are all ATA100 and lower compatible. The A7V, however, had only two pairs of ATA100 and the other 'regular' ones were ATA66.