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robbage · 12-11-2003, 09:18 PM

"You get what you pay for". I hope you didn't buy one and expect it to work as well.
This board was nothing but problems no matter what OS. Major problems not POSTing, major problems not powering up, minor problems with everything else. Linux isn't the issue here :)

pafr · 12-27-2003, 05:08 PM

No problem installing Slackware 9.1 on the K7VM2.

There are some issues (hence the average-to-good grade):

- The graphics adapter is a ProSavageDDR with max. 32MB shared memory. This chip is not fully supported by XFree 4.3: only 2D acceleration works ('savage' driver), DRI is not supported. More information is available at http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html (the VIA patch is for XFree 4.2 and is not trivial to merge). DVD playing is acceptable with xine (better with DDR RAM than with SD-RAM);

- Sound works perfectly with OSS but the ALSA driver gives many artifacts on my machine (?).

Otherwise a very acceptable board for office work (definitely not recommended for anything 3D related).

eflester · 06-19-2004, 10:50 PM

I have been running Red Hat 9 on this board for about a year. I use an Nvidia 64MB video card, otherwise using the onboard NIC and sound. I'm running a 1.1GHz Athlon CPU. BIOS out of the box. 1GB of DDR 266 RAM.

This board gave absolutely no problems with installation. I didn't need to do much of anything but run the Red Hat install routine.

I don't do any gaming, I do play with audio a little bit.

The PC has 2 hard drives, (nothing special, 7200RPM IDE) a CD-ROM and a CD-RW. The second hdd has Windows XP Pro, and I dual boot using GRUB.

All in all a very satisfactory system for the money.

roger.wernersso · 06-21-2005, 07:43 AM

I have a few problems with this motherboard, in order of priority.

1) When-ever the CPU is working 100%, any sound or music played at the same time comes out full of sparks and crackels. Very, very irritating.

2) Linux does't shut down correctly. I have to power-off manually. Very irritating.

3) The on-board network interface doesn't work at all, not in Linux, not in Windows. Irritating.

The board is compatible-ish, but crap. I would never buy it again, and never recommend it to anyone.

Note that I bought it from geekstop-shop in London, U.K. I didn't know much, and trusted them. If there was a way of rating shops, I'd give them a 1-poor as well.