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03-18-2004
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10.0
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Description:
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This has been a fantastic motherboard for me for years. However, a VERY nasty problem has been occuring to alot of people concerning the VIA chipset and the AGP speed.
This board ran windows for years for me, with a geforce2pro card in it. When I switched to Linux a while ago, everything worked out great, and I was quite happy.
Then I decided that I wanted a new video card. I went out and bought a Geforce fx 5600 Ultra. The bottom line is that the card can run at 8x AGP (though 4x AGP is the max on the mobo). BUT, I could not even get the board to run at 4x AGP! No matter what I tried, the card and mobo would lock up if I tried to enable 4x AGP in the bios. I have tried just about every trick that people could suggest to me (along with many other), and in the end, NOTHING worked!
SO, it looks like my only solution will be to try out the nf7s mobo and hope that the drivers for the nforce2 chipset are stable enough for me to take advantage of my new vid card.
Otherwise my distro had no problems with anything else! Everything was detected by kudzuu and installed smoothly. The onboard USB worked fine, as well as the rest of my hardware. Just a problem with the VIA chipset and AGP drivers...
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Keywords:
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kt7a via kt133 chipset
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/sbin/lspci output:
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00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interf
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Chipset:
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VIA KT133
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02-06-2004, 01:42 PM
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#1
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Registered: Feb 2004
Distribution: Fedora Core 3 (Test 3)
Posts: 9
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.22-10
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Mandrake 9.2
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Works great in Mandrake 9.2, very stable, no problems at all.
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02-19-2004, 11:03 AM
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#2
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Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: Mandrake, Slack, Debian and PicoBSD
Posts: 181
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.19-27
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Mandrake 8.2 +/ Slack 8+ / Debian Woody / FreeBSD 5.1
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Have had no problems with this board in nix or windows.
It's an old-ish board now though, so hunting round for a replacement.
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03-18-2004, 06:15 AM
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#3
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Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: Slackware 9.1
Posts: 4
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.4
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Distribution:
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Slackware 9.1
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Nice board, I use it as server at my company. It runs since january of 2002 all the time (7/24).
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