> >I sent it back, haven't had those kinds of problems with any other MB. The >chipset was VIA... ;-( Thanks for info. Got mine recently and performance is satisfactory w/ Redmond OS, but wuz unaware of VIA north/south bridge probs. Have since patched w/ most recent 4-in-1 drivers (4.32) including 'Vendor Support' thingy. As is often the case, I learn more about Billy's cash cow too, when hanging w/ the Linux gurus. Seems most decent thing would be for VIA to address Linux probs directly by providing drivers the way it does for the dozers. K133E (Apollo) is still considered solid mid-range and Abit boards wind up in lotsa Linux boxes too. Using native drivers, I can run all 4 IDE devices (2 hddr, dvd/cdr, cdrw) in DMA, plus get turbo AGP w/ 1.2 gig Thunderbird AMD. All very affordable. There's better MBs (DDR etc.) out there, but this is a solid platform with the right patches. I'd love to see Mandrake Linux fully enabled hereon -- would move more hardware if it did. I'll wait and watch. Kirby Abit KT7E MB w/ K133E VIA chipset Cc: VIA sales Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 03:40:23 -0400 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "civileme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You face yet another problem. There is --no ifs > ands or buts-- a _hardware problem_ with the 686B > southbridge, and another with the KT133A Northbridge. > When our 8.0 kernel sees the chipset it will dive > into crippled mode with DMA turned off. hdparm will > report it turned on but you will be unable to burn > CDRWs and CD-Rs and the behavior will be rather more > sluggish than not.
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