summary of problems of your KT133A board

[ManuTOmanU]

Well go a head and post...

Asus:
Mosel RAM support
just 5 PCI slots and only RAID 0

ABIT:
stability?!?
RMA !!!

IWill:
MULTIPLIER

MSI:
MULTIPLIER
Performance is below other similar boards´

and so on what else lemmy know...

 

[Dulanic]

<< Asus:
Mosel RAM support
just 5 PCI slots and only RAID 0
>>



The miscounting of RAM on the A7V133 was a problem in 1002 and 1003... but it works fine in the new 1004 BIOS and the older 1001.... so its not longer a problem.

 

[ManuTOmanU]

If that is right, ASUS is the board to get???

But, but still the biggy is the 5 PCI slots that would me force to step back to external expansion...

Well I think I might get the ASUS if Mosel isn't a problem with the 1004 Bios.

And actually RAID 0 is the most common setup anyway. But still a lack...

I appreciate, anybody else?

 

[sad]

Pretty much all boards have their own quarks...

 

[glenn1]

<< MSI: MULTIPLIER, Performance is below other similar boards >>



Both of these might potentially be addressed by a new bios - one beef i do have about the MSI board however, is only 2 fan headers??? Who the heck made that decision?

 

[BAMAVOO]

I have no problems at all with my KT7A-Raid..I am running all 4 USB slots and this thing is sweet.. I did have to upgrade to Win2000 to fix slowdowns in games but I think it was a software problem with 98se?? Other than that..I can't speak anything but good for Abit..

 

[Regalk]

Iwill Kk266 - 0 problems. Have the first version of the board. Runs ROCK stable at 140 x 7. Fixed cold boot problems. Enjoying this board by the day now.

 

[Techie333]

had problems w/ asus a7v133 using radeon LE
after getting latest drivers for radeon, screen went blank at windows 98 start up screen.
WTF??!

Tried everything!
Then just reinstalled windows and am using OLD driver right now.

 

[ManuTOmanU]

This thread doesn't seem to catch any party...

Bad a§§... Why is there a problem on every board... I am leaning towards ABIT and Asus, because of Iwills multiplier problems... I will certainly looks the nicest, but...

Ok what are the bad things on the ABIT?

sad hit the nail pretty much in the beginning...

How high are chances to see the KK266 with a bios that does the 133 Jump??? Or I go for ABIT or Asus... I will buy next week, so are you really sure about the Mosel RAM, does the 1004 bios really fix the problems?

 

[Dulanic]

Yes the new BIOS does fix it... check Asus download page for 1004 it says Fixed Miscounting of RAM.

And I have Mosel RAM and it fixed it.

 

[ManuTOmanU]

So you are talking me into the Asus... Thank you...

 

[sad]

If I were you, I'd wait maybe two weeks or so before buying any boards. Having read of boards with new revision of the Northbridge trickling out (i.e. KT7A revision &quot;2&quot achieving unbelievably high fsb, gave me a tinge of buyer's remorse that lasted for about 5 seconds or so. In the end I'm satisfied with my purchase, but... but.. It would have been awesome to hit 170 mhz+ fsb.

 

[SaturnX]

<< Ok what are the bad things on the ABIT? >>



Well, first off.. Abit has a high RMA rate.. and AMD recently took them off of their Approved Motherboard Listings...but nonetheless, there are many happy Abit users (ie. KT7A) whose boards are amazing and couldn't be better...

--Mark

 

[SammyBoy]

Hey, sad

I just bought the asus.

Just wondering. what ram were u planning on running @ pc170?

 

[nealh]

170 fsb would push all pci buses so far out of spec I doubt you could run any type of stable system.....
I agree what ram is going to run at this speed...however the point is the chips are better and more stable for o/cing...

Holding off is a valid point and probably a good idea....

I do wish Asus would dump the amr slot and add a 6th pci slot....and move to 3phase power scheme...

 

[TeMpT]

The ASUS A7V133 PCI slot is not THAT big of an issue, since chances are you will get irq sharing problems long before you finish using up all the slots. From what I understand, the board only has 4 irq's to share among its slots, so more slot just means more cards to collide. However, I do hate the way Asus tied slot 4 and 5 (and USB) to the same irq...

Aside from the the A7v133 seems damn stable in comparison to the KT7A. Seems like the KT7A (not sure about raid...) have issues with having DVD/CDR drives on the second IDE channel if you have SBLive (I had experienced this first hand). After exchanging the KT7A for my A7V133, must say the problem went away for keeps.

btw...is anyone noticing A7V133 is a bit finicky on WinModems? My cheapo PcTel winmodem was fine on my Kt7A, but on the A7v133...it is acting up with weird sound and crap.

BTW...that KT7A &quot;revision 2&quot; thing sounds like the reviewer is looking at a &quot;golden&quot; board to me. Chances are, the board for sale to us common folks will not go THAT high.

 

[ManuTOmanU]

Ok, folks, I am just visiting Fl, so I am under a certain time preasure... What means, that I cannot wait too long... arrival 6th and depature 20th... this gives me a little less than 2 weeks... So time is a problem... but this seems to me that the A7V 133 is the board to get... Don't have a winmodem... anyway... I am now only considdering a max of 5 PCI cards anyway... keep me posted...

 

[TungFree]

ManuTOmanU,
I wanted the DDR memory capability but the prices were so low on Sdram I bought 516 meg (2sticks 256) for 210$ the DDR2100 were then double that. So I am waiting for the boards with the hybrid both DDR and SDRAM coming very soon and asus has one coming too, i way consider that option and the benefits of it.

 

[ManuTOmanU]

I don't trust those yet, it is something that is technically not straight... two different things... and If you now have the SDRAM, I would just get a MB, and not wait, if time is ready DDR RAM will be a thing to think about, but that will take some more...

Ok just my opinion...