On Monday 05 November 2001 01:04, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Roger L. S. Griffiths BSc (roger.l.s.griffiths@ntlworld.com) [011104 23:01]: ->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).
this issue was fixed in the 1007 version of the KT133 bios. The current revision of the bios is 1009 and it works quite well. My CPU temp went down by 10 degrees C when I updated it...nice.
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Ben, did the bios come as a windows exe and did you have to run WinXX to install it? Jerry