Hi I am sorry it took so long for me to get back to you! Among sound card trouble and getting the new mother board running I had an upgrade project on another computer. This mother board was a compromise. Short and sweet. It has 1 floppy conecter, 4 33/66/100/133 ide channels (2 raid) and (2 non raid), 2 ps2 ports, 6 usb ports, 2 serial ports, 1 parallel port, 6 pci slots and 1agp slot. I got the best ide controller I could find on a mother board. I would have liked an isa slot or 2 and usb 2.0 to be there. This is one of the few mother boards whith the ata udma 133 support on board. It was a deciding factor since I wanted it to support the new drives I got. BTW, on the 10 gig and the 60 gig western digital hard drives the jumpers are labeled as follows from right to left (when the power conecter is on the right and the 40 pin connecter is on the left) CS is the first set of 2 pins to the left of the power connecter, SL is the next set of 2 pins to the left, then MA is next stil moving left. There are 2 more sets of pins to the left after the MA set. the next set of two pins to the left of MA are not labeled. the last set of pins to the left of the unlabeled set of pins are labeled whith a number letter combination. I only mentioned this because I recall some one was having trouble setting master setting on there hard drive. Well, back to the new board. I don't know a lot about the settings in bios etc yet Here is a spec sheet. Pete The model number is KR7A-133R AMD Socket A ATX Based Mainboard PC1600/PC2100 DDR DRAM ATA 133 RAID 0,1,1/0 SoftMenuTMIII Technology Specifications: CPU Support AMD Athlon XP 1500+ to 2000+ or future Socket A Processors based on 200/266 MHz (100MHz/133MHz Double Data Rate) Support AMD Athlon 700MHz to 1.4GHz or future Socket A Processors based on 200/266 MHz (100MHz/133MHz Double Data Rate) Support AMD Duron 600MHz to 1.2 GHz or future Socket A Processors based on 200 MHZ (100MHz Double Data Rate) Chipset VIA KT266A / VIA VT8233A Supports Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133 IDE protocol Supports Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface (ACPI) Accelerated Graphics Port connector supports AGP 2X(3.3V)and 4X(1.5V) mode (Sideband) device Supports200/266 MHz (100MHz/133MHz Double Data Rate) Memory Bus Settings Ultra DMA 133/ RAID High Point HPT372 IDE Controller Ultra DMA 133MB/sec data transfer rate RAID 0 (striping mode for boosting performance) RAID 1 (mirroring mode for data security) RAID 0 + 1(striping and mirroring) Memory Four 184-pin DIMM sockets support PC1600/PC2100 DDR SDRAM module Supports 6 banks up to 3GB DRAMs for unbuffered DDR/SDR modules Supports 8 banks up to 4GB DRAMs for registered DDR/SDR modules System BIOS SoftMenuTM III Technology to set CPU parameters Supports Plug-and-Play (PNP) Supports Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI) Supports Desktop Management Interface (DMI) Write-Protect Anti-Virus function by AWARD BIOS Multi I/O Functions Floppy Port supports up to 2.88MB Two Channels of Bus Master IDE Ports supporting up to four Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133 Two Channels of Bus Master IDE Ports supporting up to four Ultra DMA 33/66//100/133 (RAID 0/1/10) One built-in Standard /EPP/ECP parallel port connector Two built-in 16550 fast UART compatible serial port connectors Built-in PS/2 Keyboard and PS/2 mouse port connectors On board USB header for two extra USB channels Miscellaneous ATX form factor 1 AGP slot, 6 PCI slots Hardware monitoring - Including Fan speed, Voltages, System environment temperature Built-in Wake on LAN header Built-in Wake on Ring header Built-in IrDA TX/RX header USB 2.0 is not supported in the KG or KR series of motherboards. ABIT Computer Corp ----- Original Message ----- From: "Georgina" <gena@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:17 AM Subject: Re: new motherboard/CPU/memory > Hi > > I'd be very interested on how you get on with your new board, as my last > upgrade caused me a number of problems. So if you decide not to post your > comments on the list could you please send them to me privately? I'd like to > knowexactly which Abit board you've purchased. Could you give an overview > of its features? > > While the I-Will KK266 Plus R is a good board, perhaps I should check Linux > compatability for my next board. > > Gena > > > > > > > Hi every one > > I ordered a new mother board, CPU and memory Tuesday and recieved it > >yesterday. It's an Abit mother board and the CPU is an AMD Duron 1.2 ghz > >and I got 128 mb DDR sdram for it for $290 plus some change. I spent less > >than I thought I would. I have been saving up for almost a year to do this > >and finally! I'll probably have it up and running later on today. Whish me > >luck! > > Pete > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
