On Monday 05 November 2001 01:45 am, Roger L.S.Griffiths BSc (Hons) wrote:
On Sunday 04 Nov 2001 10:40 pm, David A. Riggs wrote:
I'm the not-so-proud owner of an Abit KT7A-RAID. It has plauged me since the day I purchased it with instability and poor disk IO performance. It uses the Via KT133A chipset, which guarantees you many headaches if you plan to use an SBLive with it. Both Via and Creative admit that a problem exists between them, but neither company accepts responsibility. Search groups.google.com for kt7a and sblive if you don't trust my advice alone.
Problems with the KT7A and the SBLive!???? I am using an SBLive Player 1024 quite happily on my system (KT7A + 1.2GHz TB). You might want to check for the BIOS updates as I remember seeing somewhere that one of the BIOS updates resolved some issues with the SBLive!.
I bought my KT7A about 2months ago and am using it quite happily with an SBlive! without any BIOS updates. This seems to imply that the newer KT7A mbs have the latest BIOS (or at least a BIOS with the SBLive! fix).
TTFN
Roger
The problem is very well documented here: http://www.viahardware.com/686bfaq.shtm Using this combination of an SBLive and a KT7A will at the very least give you the possibility of severe headaches. This thread is about opinions on that particular hardware combination, it is a documented fact that the two are known to cause problems. There have been 2 or 3 *hardware* revisions of the KT7A, my board is the 1st and I've written it off as a lemon. I've tried all official and several unofficial BIOS versions, spent more time than I'd care to admit in tweaking BIOS settings and card slots...I've only gotten this board to a usable condition without the SBLive installed. If I sound bitter, it's because I am. I have no qualms with Abit products in general nor with Creative products in general, but from firsthand experience with this particular combination I have to say that there are better hardware choices. David A. Riggs -- 1:48am up 3 days, 8:50, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00