Just got this mobo yesterday and have had many weird problems with it. When I start it up I get an error message CPU is unworkable or has been changed Please recheck- CPU Soft menu when I hit F1 the computer goes thru the process and I am able to use the machine. by the way I am running linux...

I'm considering swapping my Asus MB for a Abit IC7-Max3 and would like to hear opinions of this board from those of you who are using it. I will be using an Intel 3.0 p4 with a gig of ram and running WinXP Pro. I plan to disable on-board sound, video and LAN and use my NVIDIA card, Turtle...

Hello, I have just built a new system using the IC7 motherboard. Windows XP Pro has been installed without any problems. However, I am having a bit of difficulty in getting RJ-45 LAN connector to work. There seems to be no reference of it in 'device manager' nor is there a switch in the bios...

I'm about to buy a new 160 GB HDD for my old (but suitable) Abit BX6 with Celeron 300A overcloked to 466. Will it work? I've got the "newest" BIOS, in which descripion there is written: "Supports 40GB harddisks and above, However we aren't quite sure what the precise capacity is, since the...

Hi there! I wonder if any one has any ideas on a problem that is kicking my butt! I have a Abit KX7-333 mobo with a Athlon/xp 2400 retail chip on it.... It also has a single stick of 512mb ddr333/pc2700... This board operated for over a year in one of my machines..... Since cannibalized for...

I'm using an Abit KD7-E motherboard with an Athlon XP 2200 processor. Do I need to connect the ATX2 power supply in addition to the main connector? The manual isn't very helpful as it's written in poor English!

I built a PC using an ABIT VT7 MB with a VIA PT880 chipset., P4-3GHZ, 512MB, a DVD/CDRW, a DVDR, WinXP Pro, Power DVD 5.0 I connected a sound cable from both optical drives. The sound works while playing audio CD's on either drive. There's no sound when using commercial DVD's, though. Any...

Here's the thing: I recently sprung $260 for an ATI-built AIW 9600XT. It won't work in my motherboard. Went thru 3 RMA'a and finally got ATI to admit "there were probably some incompatibilities out there. But we can't test everything." Uh-huh. So I've resigned myself to upgrading the rest of the...

I have an Abit NF7 with an Athlon XP 2200+, 256 PC2100 Ram and a 350 Antec PS. It runs great with a ATI Radeon 7500 4x AGP video card. When I drop in a Nvidia Gforce4 MX440 128MB 8x AGP video card and turn on the power, the lights and fans come on, but no POST, no beeps, no video. I have tried...

I have a P4 2.8 800mhz, and want to match a Abit board that will be good for overclocking, gig-lan, sata, on board sound. Can anyone reccomend a model or 2 and give your reasons why?

The auto detect feature does not seem to function. it gives me the oportunity to put in the mfgs name for memory and power supply. It wont save that, or fill in the rest of the blanks on my system. Any ideas are welcome other than swapping mobo's. Thanks

I have the current setup: WinXP-pro/DX9.0b AMD XP2800+Barton R9800XT 256mbDDR SmartVGA / OMEGA-Cat-4.2 Abit NF7-S NForce 2 MoBo(r2)(bios 18 ) 2x256MB PC2700DDR SB Live Value 60g Seagate / 20g Fireball Liteon - DVDx16/CDRWx48 LG 17' Flat Sc F700B

how good is my 10/100 onboard LAN? or should I use a PCI 10/100 NIC? I will be connecting to a switch on Saturday using cat5/rj-45 utp -- Don't be so open-minded your brains fall out. Take out the CUSSIN to reply to me

Hi all, I have an Abit SA7 Motherboard with a P4 2.4 Ghz processor and 512Mb of 2700 333Mhz DDR ram (I'm running at 533Mhz) It would appear that the correct DRAM ratio to set would be 4:5, i.e. (133/4)*5= 166.25 *2 = 332.5 Mhz forums seem to agree that that's the speed 2700 ram should be...

I find I am unable to set the multiplier to 23 as this chip needs. It is greyed out at 12 and inaccessible so the processor runs at less than half its normal speed. Is this a M/B problem or a processor problem? I have flashed the latest BIOS. Ian