I built an Athlon system about 3-4 months ago and started out with the Abit
motherboard which would NOT work even after trying 2 different boards. I
switched to Asus K7V and it works great! I haven't really heard anything
good about the onboard ATA100 nor abit for Athlon. My system is as follows:
Asus K7V
Athlon 700
Matrox G400
SoundBlaster live
512 MB RAM
2x 20 hdd's
Win2k pro, server, Win98, Linux-Mandrake 7.1, and have had Suse 7.0 loaded
all at the same time without problems.
Mike
Has anyone managed to get any distro to work with an AMD Athlon Thunderbird
& an Abit KA7-100 motherboard ? machine runs windows NT fine, installs
Redhat, but it fails with a kernel panic when trying to start for the first
time, Gentus Linux ( rebadged Redhat supplied with the motherboard) would
not even complete the installation and Caldera wouldn't install (fortunately
it failed quickly :). The machine is not overclocked.
