Is there a program that will tell me what the stepping is on my PIII 1000 MHz chip? I was dumb and forgot to note it when I installed the chip. I have an ABIT VP-6 and would like to go ahead and put in second processor. I thought WCPUID would display that information for me, but it only tells...

I have a KD7 Mobo with the built in AC97 sound system. It has been working fine with the standard stereo out to a single pair of speakers. I recently picked up a small 5.1 speaker system that uses the digital optical port. Stereo works fine through the fiber optics, but no other speakers...

I'm going to be recieveing a max 3 for xmas, I'm wondering how well the on board audio codec is ? I currently Have a Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Platium, I'm wondering if its worth installing in this new system, can the average joe tell the diffenence ? I guess the big thing would be EAX support for...

I ran hardware doctor that comes with the cd and it says that VSB voltage is out of limits. I checked it on BIOS as well and its 1.30 V and it should be something like 5.0 V I believe. Do you guys know what does this mean? Could a more powerful PSU fix it? I heard that a few people fixed many...

Last night i was surfing the internet and my comp rebooted by itself.It can back on andworked fine for about another 45 mins.Well it rebooted again and now it wont come back up,The power is on all fans r on.I tried putting in another harddrive but that didnt work.BTW the monitor dont come on and...

Hi Does this motherboard, KD7-RAID, like older Abit models have some "quirks" about the kind of dimms it can use? I used to have an older model and only a certain kind of dimms could be used to fill the 4 banks, 2 banks only non-ecc and 4 banks ecc , etc.... I have 256Mb PC2100 and I want to...

Hello, I recently purchased a VI7 Motherboard and I have been having a plethora of problems. First, when I initially put the system together, I got this non-stop pc-speaker noise that would be a high pitch and a low pitch, off and on every second. There was no apparent problem, so I just...

You could actually go to a 2400+ if you manually set the bios. "Andrew Winship" wrote in message ... I am in the process of decision making for upgrading, and have gotten conflicting information about the...

After upgrading hard drives and reinstalling XP Pro on my KT7A-RAID system, I can't seem to get rid of the stuttering sound problem. I had this same difficulty on the original install of XP Pro about 18 months ago. Downloading all of the vendor software (getting rid of Microsoft drivers) and...

Can we directly record what we heard with Abit NF7-S or there is a protection ? I've tryed to use "Mix" to encode what a speaker say in my program but it's not a good song so I think there is perhaps a protection.

Need to turn off Hyperthreading to have Premiere run stable. Hangs often with HT enabled runs fine with HT off! Anyone else experience this? Is it the IS7 bios or Premiere? or is this a chicken and egg situation? Symptoms: with HT capturing DV video hangs in about a minute

I don't understand, I've two problem : 1- at the boot, Windows wait I disconnect my USB Modem. 2. when I shutdown, the pc restart after a small beep! I've connect my motherboard with the ATX power, perhaps I would try with P4 connector.

Are there any drivers for the onboard nic card for Linux this is the only component that won't work when I install the os.

I had to clear my CMOS and now my primary IDE channel 45 gig 7200 rpm IBM hard drive is running in PIO mode. I know for a fact that it was at some point running in UDMA mode. When I go into the bios, the settings for the channel are to auto detect and are not forcing PIO mode. I'm running win2k...

Hello, Are the KT7A-Raid motherboards notorious for their memory slots dying? I am having memory issues with mine and I cannot seem to find a fix... I'm running 3 128 sticks of memory in it for a total of 384 MB SDRAM and the test program reports lots of errors but on other motherboards the...

After I install the brand new Corsair 256mb PC3200 400mhz (Value Select vs256mb400c3) on the NF7-M motherboard, the pc won't post and has one long beep that indicates the memory problem. But I used to use the Corsair 512mb PC 2700 333mhz(Value Select VS512MB333) and it ran fine with no problem....

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...

Can someone help dummy here? I've finallly gotten around to needing my SATA controller. When I built the computer the driver was not available and was not included on my CD. When I download the driver from the abit website it's a zip file. When I unzip it there is nothing that I can execute. ...

Hello, Are the KT7A-Raid motherboards notorious for their memory slots dying? I am having memory issues with mine and I cannot seem to find a fix... I'm running 3 128 sticks of memory in it for a total of 384 MB SDRAM and the test program reports lots of errors but on other motherboards the...

Wondering if you resolved this. I am having the same problem with my ABIT BE6 board. XP worked fine for months and suddenly started hanging and now it wont either install or be stable (depending on which CPU i use). Win 98 is stable tho. Tried replacing every component including RA, video card,...