On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Paul Gear wrote:
> David wrote:
> >Does it work okay if you unplug the DVD drive? Have you tried replacing
> >or re-positioning the ATA cable?
> I'll try some of these after i've finished my assignment for college... ;-)
Good idea. :)
> Have you shared a bus between a DVD & a hard drive?
Not on this system.
> I think in the long term i'll have to buy a separate IDE controller for
> the DVD.
Yeah, it would be worth it.
> >I had some major stability problems at first with my A7V333, until I
> >worked around the BIOS bugs. No problems since. :)
> What BIOS does the A7V333 use? What were the symptoms of your stability
> problems?
Automatic configuration of the RAM timings ("By SPD") doesn't work on this
motherboard. With various DIMMS, I would get random lockups, memtest86
failures, etc. Works perfectly if I manually set the timings.
David.
