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Returning The Abit KT7A as problems persist

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Andy22

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For those that have followed my posts and problems from the KT7A\T-Bird 1GHz combo...I was going along just fine (while I await my two sticks of Cruicial 256 PC133) and playing Deus Ex Saturday night when the game locked up hard in a sound loop causing me to have to reset my system...then all he11 broke lose. When I rebooted I had a registry error and it then rebooted on it's own. From there things went from bad to worse. I continued getting rundll and Invalid Page Faults from Explorer.exe. I tried reloading Windows 98 but no go. The random lockups while installing programs, IPF's, rundll errors, etc, continued even after a format and clean install. Also Deus Ex wouldn't load returning a long and I think graphics related error.

I did get an unusual error a couple of times. At a black DOS like screen with white writing at the top: Error writing to devcice AUX, abort rety fail. I thought it might have been the video card but after popping in my Voodoo 3000, the problems did not clear up. I decided the PC100 memory could not be responsible for all these problems and went ahead and ordered the Asus A7V133(good board?) W\out Audio and had it overnighted so it would arrive with the RAM tomorrow.

I was kinda surprised when I read on here about the poor QA from Abit. I have only had one of their boards(BH6) and it made it through two CPU's(Celery 300 OC'd to 450 and a PIII 500) and was still going strong.

Now I have to RMA the Mobo which will be the first piece of computer equipment I have ever purchased on the net that I will have to send back.

I will let everyone know how this little mini-saga turns out after I get it all rebuilt either Tuesday night or Wednesday.

Andy
 
I was getting similar problems on a laptop of mine. It turned out to be my HD. The drive went bad and all the errors were due to the swap file being on a bad HD. Problem went away when I replaced the drive.
 
Wouldn't scandisk turn up >something< if there was problem on the HD? I mean aftert two formats and three installs you would think it would find some bad clusters, sectors...something.
 
Sorry to hear that andy.. the rig i built for my gram, i used that board... she has no probs at all, and god knows what she does (deletes, moves,changes).. and the board stays very stable.. may-b i ws just lucky..
 
Heh, nope not overclocked. Apparently the PC100 RAM is locking the FSB to 100MHz so I am only running at 750 MHz although the chip is a 1GHz.

I will know for sure Tuesday night if the MB, RAM or HD was the culprit.



 
I'm pretty sure RAM is independent from the rest of the bus speeds on that board. So regardless of PC100 or PC133 RAM it should just work fine. Isn't the 1Ghz Athlon 100x10 anyway?
 
I believe from all the responses I have received, the Athlon 1GHz is locked with a multiplier of 7.5 meaning to get to 1 GHz you would need a fsb of 133. Unless you unlock the mp with the &quot;pencil trick&quot;.
 
Hmn...sorry Andy22,

I did a little looking into it and apparently on the newer 266FSB Athlons the default bus IS 133. On my old 200FSB Athlon 1Ghz it was 100, hence the 10x100 I refered to in my earlier post. But I still believe (unless something else has changed) that the RAM operetes independently from the FSB, so you should still be able to use PC100 RAM without it slowing down the FSB.

Then again, I could be wrong again.
 
What power rating is your PSU? I had to upgrade my 300W to a 550W (400 prolly would have been OK) to get my KT7A-RAID / 1.3GHz Athlon to run properly.

How does it run on a basic hardware setup, i.e. 1 stick RAM, Vid card only, 1HDD etc?

Good luck.. Yoshi
 
Well...Afropick may be right about the hard drive being at least part of the problem. I went home last night and changed the swap file from C to D and was able to get in and play Deus Ex. I then changed it back to C and soon after starting the game, I received a fatal error and dump back to desktop.

I decided to do a thorough scan of the drive so I started it and and let it run over night and when I checked on it this morning it was sitting at a &quot;Disk Boot Failure&quot;.

<sigh>

It will probably be easier to go through Maxtor for the replacement (they promise a replacement in 2 days) instead of MultiWave so I guess that will be my next step in this great upgrade misadventure. I guess even though the Abit KT7A may not have been the problem afterall I feel like I am getting a better motherboard not to mention upgrading my 288MB of PC100 to 512 MB of Crucial PC133 so there is a silver lining...albeit a dim one.

I'll definitely update everyone when this God forsaken rig is up and running.

 
I also have a Kt7a....

And have the same problems as you andy, with DeusEx. However I'm aware of some ,of the drivers incompatibility (soundblasterlive 3.0 &amp; 3dfx drivers)
,the list is at abit's site (FAQ's)

Apparently,this via chipset will work better with older drivers.
Now I have to locate those older drivers...

Good luck
 
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