Hi, Just got back from vacation and went to boot up an old machine with a BE6-II mother board. First it made an alarm sound. I checked to make sure the voltage wasn't set to 200 and it wasn't. I tried removing the RAM and that had no affect. I finally ended up fiddling with the ribbon cable to the...

Let me say first---you guys in this group have given me a great education and have helped me plenty in the past. Now, what I'm thinking about, is upgrading ( well actually---replacing) my current PC--- case and all. Maybe sell or give as a gift my current computer. This is not a good idea for...

I have just flashed the bios on my KT7A board ( shoulda left things alone) and now cannot restart the pc or even after I shut it off, I cannot just press the "ON" button to boot. I have to flip the switch in back of the tower to "OFF" then "ON". Then I can boot just fine. What happens is---I get...

Hi all, Maybe I should stick with what I have but I'm curious as to replacing mt KT7A-133 motherboard to one that is compatable with what I have already installed in it, for example I have SDS Ram, not DDR. The years have introduced so many new technologies that I guess I'm lagging behind. ...

Hi, I have had this MB for some years now and have had no problems with it---so I've not thought of replacing it. Maybe I could get a suggestion on a newer board that is similar ( now that prices have come down considerably). But I've been thinking about upgrading from the intigrated USB 1.0 to...

I am going through a nightmare to try and get my USB1.1 Creative Nomad II MG to work on my Abit IC7. I can download files off of it, and change settings, but I am unable to upload files. I have spoken to Creative support, but they just have a list of questions as usual and couldn't help. I have...

I have plugged the card into PCI slot, bootup, but no "new hardware wizard" from XP, nor I can install manually. I have tried another slot, no luck. I have contact Linksys system support, they suggest to reinstall the OS. I have reinstall XP in clean, no luck. The card works well in another PC...

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Hello: Everything seems to be OK, but the second port is not working well. I connected a DVD burner and the system did not detect it. Before that I connected an IDE HD, the system detect it but could not boot. That IDE HD is set as slave. The second IDE cable is from an older MB but had not been...

hi can some one help me seem to be having a few problems with my abit nf7-s v2,0 the problem is i have 2 x maxtor 120 gig sata drives on a raid 0 and a 2500xp barton my bios is 18 and i have 2 x 256 ddr2700 the dives seem to be very slow and there is lots off hard drive activity going on

Hi! I'm using a Abit KT7-R board and just added a 200gb Seagate harddrive (now the only harddrive). The VIA 4in1 drivers are installed and the newest bios is on the board but the performance of the harddrive is much too low (the reading speed drops every few seconds to around 1MB/s). HDTune says...

I wanted to upgrade the video card in my nieces computer. As it is the first generation Abit BH 6 I was a little leery of running a newer AGP video card so I bought a PCI model specifically the ATI 9250. So it won't boot with it installed. Tried in another comp and it booted just fine. AGP I know...

I have a WD 120GB SATA HD on SATA 1, a CDRW drive on IDE 1 and a CDR-RW/DVD combo drive on IDE 2. All 3 are set to master. With this combination I have tried setting On-chip serial ATA mode to "enhanced" and "auto". the computer begins to boot, but the screen always goes blank before reaching the...

Hi, My Asus motherboard (P4P800 Deluxe) is dead & I would like to buy an ABIT motherboard with the 478 ( I have a cpu P4 2.4 & 4X256 DDR400 PC3200) & 875 chipset or 865 but all these boards have AGP 8X & the Matrox g550 is the AGP is 2X/4X, is my card could work with this chipset? Thank you. Jean

Hello, I have bought a Digidice Barebone. But the Remote Control is not working. Can anybody help me? de andre -- www.qsl.net/dl4ycj

Hi, i just bought two 512 MB DDR PC-400 Infineon Ram and am running them synchron (333 FSB, running asynchron on 400 gives not better results) to my 2600+ Athlon. I am not noticing any real improvements in performance, here are my benchmarks results (befor I had 1 512 MB Ram PC-333) Before Dual...

Does anybody having resolved the problem, that an external USB-hdd disappears after a while? I have the problem, that the partitions are available in the explorer, but after a while, they are not available any more. When I go to the administration tool in the system settings, it is not possible to...

Hello, do i need a bios update for the brandnew AX8 to run the AMD64 "Venice"? Because i wanna buy the AMD64 "Venice" but i can't run a bios update if the venice doesn't work.... regards

I just installed the AS8 on my system and the USB sockets all are running at 1.0. Anytime I insert a 2.0 thumb drive or external hard drive, a balloon pops up saying, "This device can perform faster... The USB Device can perform faster if you connect it to a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port". So I insert the...

I have an Abit KT7/KT-RAID motherboard which I purchased three years ago. Last July, my system shut down for no reason at all. When I tried booting up the system, it would turn on but the Operating System would load. I'm still having this problem, but what I need to do is turn off my system, unplug...