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
On Sunday 04 Nov 2001 10:40 pm, David A. Riggs wrote: 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 -- Roger L.S. Griffiths, BSc (Hons) Gott würfelt nicht (God does not play dice) - Albert Einstein