I will tell you when I try it tomorrow,, I have all the bad ingrediants,, so if it works, I'll be happy... I have a Western Digital, ATA100 7200rpm 20 gig hdd, Updated Mandrake 7.2 with ReiserFS, And the Southbridge chip... Its gonna be interesting.. As for the Bios,, here is the bios page from Abit,, They seem to have fixed several ram and pci timing problems as well as others... so it will be interesting to see how it goes.. I have my duron 900 running with a huge 7000rpm fan on a massive heatsink (cost me 40 bucks AU for the cooler), and it has been running at 1000mhz all night on win98SE with 3DMark2001 running over and over and over, and the CPU temp has not gone over 26 degrees...(which the monitoring software is telling me is too cold, what a crackup :-) meaning 2 things,, 1. The Duron 900 is absolutly stable at 1000mhz, with alittle extra cooling...(actually, I didn't try any higher, as its plenty fast. (although I have heard reports that it will run at over 1100, I don't plan on trying.) 2. No voltage changes are necessary for the above overclock, although I did have to use a 2H pencil to join the L1 bridges on the top of the chip to unlock the multiplier. (took exactly 50 seconds...) If you want a cheap fast package, This is fantastic, tests report that this is actually faster then one of the original Athlon 1000's, and very close (even better in a couple of areas) to a PIII 1000. My longterm test for the overclocks stability, is to set it up as my mail/http/cgi server, handles about 700 emails a day and hosts 7 different domain names.. web sites, and several huge perl scripts... When it gets 3 months of uptime, I will consider it completely stable.. (assuming there are no problems in that time.) My current server, a Celeron 300A, has been running at 452 MHZ for about a year now, and currently has a 2 month uptime... its been very impressive... I am hoping this will be too.. Its impressed the hell out of me.... anyway, here is the text from the bios page... ilename: KT73C.EXE Date: 06/11/2001 ID: 3C NOTE: HPT370 RAID BIOS version 1.11.0402 Attention !!! Since bios 3C includes HPT bios 1.11, you may need upgrade your HPT370 driver before flashing the bios. When you upgrade your bios from ZT to 3C, we highly recommend you backup your system to an independent storage device first. This is because the new HPT 1.11 bios can not keep the old configuration. This means you may need to rebuild your RAID system. Therefore, you may lose RAID-0 data when you update the bios from old version to new one. For RAID-1 user, please press "CTRL+H" to enter hpt370 setup screen and do "Duplicate Mirror Disk " to recover RAID system. Filename: KT7ZT.EXE Date: 05/11/2001 ID: ZT NOTE: Adds three new options to enhance the system compatibility - Delay Transaction -PCI master read -PCI master time-out Sets above options to Disabled/0 and may help SB Live 5.1 sound issue. If the system experiences low performance after these settings, enable the"PCI master read caching". Fixes the Athlon 1.3G(100) wrongfully being recognized as 104x12.5. Adds an option "State after power failure". Sets all four IDE devices to " AUTO". Sets the default year to 2001. Filename: KT7YH.EXE Date: 02/14/2001 ID: YH NOTE: Augment to FlashMenu Function. Adds RAID BIOS version v1.03b. Filename: KT7WZ.EXE Date: 01/29/2001 ID: WZ NOTE: Adds an option to enable/disable the CPU protection (fan1 error checking) function and changes the default setting to disabled. Fixes erroneous register settings of Bank x/y Dram Timing for certain configurations. Changes the CPU FSB from 133MHz for specific Athlon processors. Fixes system-hang issues when running SiSoft Sandra 2000 Professional. Supports FlashMenu. HPT 370 RAID BIOS version 1.0.3b1 Filename: KT7WW.EXE Date: 12/12/2000 ID: WW NOTE: Adds CPU protection: WARING! if the CPU fan reading of fan header #1 lower than 200RPM or the fan is connected to header #2, #3, #4, or directly to power supply unit, leaving header #1 empty, this BIOS will automatically SHUTDOWN THE POWER IN 10 SECONDS. Adds RAID BIOS version v1.03b1(KT7A-RAID only) -----Original Message----- From: Mark Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 20 June 2001 11:37 PM To: Franki; Rules Address for MDK Subject: RE: [newbie] I got me a new Motherboard,,, woohoo Congrats on the new mobo. >I think it has the bad southbridge,,, so my first stop was the Abit site and >I now have the very latest Bios, dated 6th of this month... Do you know if the new bios is supposed to fix the i/o corruption problem? I ask because I've been thinking about building a new box and the Abit is one I've been looking at. ::mark
