Alex
MicroStar list a BIOS patch if you are running An Athlon 800 or higher.
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Boag-Munroe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 10:45 AM
Subject: RE: [Cooker] AMD Athlons and their motherboards. Oh, Aureal Vort
exes as well.
> The AMD 750 boards use an AMD chipset...the VIA one uses the VIA KX133
> chipset. I will check the sites tho...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 03 July 2000 3:00
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] AMD Athlons and their motherboards. Oh, Aureal
> Vortexes as well.
>
>
> Alex
> If I am not mistaken both of your motherboards use VIA chips. You
should
> check at the MOBO websites and at VIA for any patches for that specfic
chip.
> I have a FIC SD-11 MOBO with a 1999 AMI BIOS and a AMD-751 chip.It
> shipped with patches for the VIA 686A chip on an included CD.
>
> Charles
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Boag-Munroe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 8:33 AM
> Subject: [Cooker] AMD Athlons and their motherboards. Oh, Aureal Vortexes
as
> well.
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I was wondering, has anyone experienced this problem?
> >
> > I have a 1Ghz Athlon with a choice of two motherboards.
> >
> > One is an AOpen KX133 board. This all works fine, except when I install
> the
> > Aureal Vortex 2 driver onto my system, any attempt at playing a sound
> locks
> > the system solid. (I know this is not a Linux issue as it does this in
> > Windows also).
> >
> > The other is a Microstar K7M, with the AMD 750 chipset. After a fresh
> > install of MDK 7.1, it hangs when "Starting hard drive optimisations for
> > HDC). It starts the optimisations for hda just fine.
> >
> > ARGH!
> >
> > I do hope anyone can help me.
> >
> > Ta
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
> >
>
>
