I notice Abit KT7A is green lined at Mandrake website, meaning tested. My KT7E uses same VIA KT133E /VIA 686B chipset. So maybe I shouldn't be fearing some VIA bug after all (savvy guy Brinkman was suggesting Abits could be problematic, yet none of the Soyo MBs listed at Mandrake are green lined :-D). AMD brags about Apollo chipset here: http://www.amd.com/news/prodpr/20114.html (June last year) recommends KT7 Socket A MBs here: http://www1.amd.com/athlon/mbl/index/1,1503,,00.html If there was some disconnect between AMD and Abit over VIA/Apollo chipset, I don't find any mention at the website. So I guess I'll try to install 8.0 after all, now that I've fixed the silly floppy disk problem. Fingers crossed. No wait, still need a good MDK install disk. I'm going .iso right now, try before buy. Kirby
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwww.mandrakestore.com
