Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4393 mails)

[Jerry Kreps <jk05308@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 05 November 2001 01:04, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
> * Roger L. S. Griffiths BSc (roger.l.s.griffiths@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
> [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 Rosenberg            mailto:ben@xxxxxxxxx
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> "Technological progress is like an axe in the
>  hands of a pathological criminal" -AE


Ben, did the bios come as a windows exe and did you have to run WinXX 
to install it?
Jerry