What's important is which clock chip your new motherboard uses. Does it say in the manual?
I'm curious. BTW: the A7A266 has exactly the same problem (actually worst!) under Winblows. Winblows just doesn't know how to deal with it. -JMS |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Hoyt Duff |Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 10:57 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] A7V266, A7A266 and A7M266 + Winbond | | |On Friday 30 November 2001 10:12, you wrote: |> Hi Tom, Thank you very much. |> |> I'm quite familiar to some notes that you emphasised. |I also well |> know how bad are Asus becoming. Soyo-K7V (Dragon+ I think) is my |> first option but here it is not easy to find (and I'm not question |> about price!). Another option is MSI KT266A mobo. However |Via KT266A |> (also present in SY-K7V) seems not to be supported by MDK |8.0 (only 8.1). | |Just to update . . . | |I recieved the Abit KG7 Lite mobo by FedEx yesterday. The |chipset is the |AMD761 northbridge and VIA VT82C686B southbridge. | |Mandrake 8.1 gets along fine with it; I'm using a 1.4G AMD |Thunderbird and |.75GB RAM. Price: US$ 120. | |The clockchip-impaired ASUS A7A266 is now relegated to |Windows98 service |since Windows likes it just fine. | |Hoyt | |
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