Alex
If I am not mistaken both of your motherboards use VIA chips. You should
check at the MOBO websites and at VIA for any patches for that specfic chip.
I have a FIC SD-11 MOBO with a 1999 AMI BIOS and a AMD-751 chip.It
shipped with patches for the VIA 686A chip on an included CD.
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Boag-Munroe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 8:33 AM
Subject: [Cooker] AMD Athlons and their motherboards. Oh, Aureal Vortexes as
well.
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering, has anyone experienced this problem?
>
> I have a 1Ghz Athlon with a choice of two motherboards.
>
> One is an AOpen KX133 board. This all works fine, except when I install
the
> Aureal Vortex 2 driver onto my system, any attempt at playing a sound
locks
> the system solid. (I know this is not a Linux issue as it does this in
> Windows also).
>
> The other is a Microstar K7M, with the AMD 750 chipset. After a fresh
> install of MDK 7.1, it hangs when "Starting hard drive optimisations for
> HDC). It starts the optimisations for hda just fine.
>
> ARGH!
>
> I do hope anyone can help me.
>
> Ta
>
> Alex
>
>
>
