get a MSI KT266A, its a great board, and fast.. rgds
Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2001 2:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] A7A or A7M? Both work with MDK 8.0 and 8.1 Hi! Thank you very much for your attention. So, since I didn't buy anithing what mobo should I buy to run Athlon 1.4/266 with DDR Mem and ATA100. Is there anyone running GA-7VTXE? Some mobos are quite hard to be find here in Brazil. Many thanks for any attention. On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Monday 26 November 2001 04:36 pm, Hoyt Duff wrote: > > > Is there someone using MDK 8.0 and/or MDK 8.1 with Asus mobo A7A > > > (Ali chipset) and/or A7M (AMD chipset)? I intend to mount a > > > Athlon 1.4 with DDR memory and I want to be sure it will work > > > fine. I would use a RIVA TNT graphic card too. > > > > > > Both chipset are unknown to me (but I know VIA pretty well to > > > not want it anymore). > > Most problems start with USER, then hardware. 'Course it's up to > the user to choose the hardware ;> > > > You should be concerned if it has a Winbond clock chip since the > > error messages will drive you nuts. Here is teh etxt of a reply > > about this matter. > > > > I am ditching my ASUS A7A266 mobo for an Abit KG7. > > Out of the fryin pan, into the fire. Asus has ditched quality as > of late, Abit never had much. > > BUT I digress, I've seen comments lately associating Winbond chips > with problems. I believe y'all are mistaken to link them to AMD/VIA, > etc. mobo's. The i2c/clock chips on most mobo's (I'd venture 90%) > are Winbond chips. Includin most all Intel chipset based boards. The > most prevalent chip has to be the Winbond W83781D, and is most likely > the chip in your Intel based mobo (if you have one ;) > -- ----------------------- Alan Wilter S. da Silva ----------------------- Laborat�rio de F�sica Biol�gica Instituto de Biof�sica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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