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I'm getting a new Motherboard, an ABIT KT-7A RAID, it says that it can handle AMD Athlons and Durons. I saw an AMD Thunderbird. Is a Thunderbird the same as an Athlon or Duron?
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Nae bather.
Ok, thanks for your help Bonus.
I'll let you know how things go.
:-)
I'll let you know how things go.
:-)
Right, your power supply must be either one from AMD's recommended list on their website, or a generic 300W PSU. Anything less and you may struggle the more you put into the machine. As far as graphics cards go, I have a Creative Annihilator Pro DDR (geforce 256) and sometimes my computer wont turn on unless it has been switched off at the wall.
As for the memory, the memory must be what has become known as "high grade". I used to work in a computer shop and when the Athlons first came out, it threw up memory problems left right and centre using generic crappy cheap RAM, but the same RAM would work fine with Intel set-ups. Eventually we found out that the RAM has to be of a fairly high quality, and fairly new, so if you have had it a while and get things like registry errors when you run Windows for the first time etc. Or have major blue screen problems, trouble installing programs etc. then it is more than likely the Athlon needs a better quality of RAM than you have.
As for the memory, the memory must be what has become known as "high grade". I used to work in a computer shop and when the Athlons first came out, it threw up memory problems left right and centre using generic crappy cheap RAM, but the same RAM would work fine with Intel set-ups. Eventually we found out that the RAM has to be of a fairly high quality, and fairly new, so if you have had it a while and get things like registry errors when you run Windows for the first time etc. Or have major blue screen problems, trouble installing programs etc. then it is more than likely the Athlon needs a better quality of RAM than you have.
www.highpoint-tech.com
This is the web address for the company who make the RAID controller on the ABIT motherboards, it is the Highpoint HP370 controller. All the info you need is here, with the latest compatibility lists for the latest bioses, the only problem with my board is Abit only released a bios up to HP's 1.0622 bios, but newer versions should work fine with most drives, but there is a compaibility list on here.
This is the web address for the company who make the RAID controller on the ABIT motherboards, it is the Highpoint HP370 controller. All the info you need is here, with the latest compatibility lists for the latest bioses, the only problem with my board is Abit only released a bios up to HP's 1.0622 bios, but newer versions should work fine with most drives, but there is a compaibility list on here.
Ok. At the moment i just have a UDMA/66, i think. It's currently working with my AMD K6-2 400 on a Microstar Board.
I'm not sure if i need a new power supply as well or not. I know my RAM and graphics card will still work.
I'm not sure if i need a new power supply as well or not. I know my RAM and graphics card will still work.
You don't have to have a RAID HDD, because RAID is a way of either mirroring or striping data between two different hard drives, but if you want UDMA 100, or you just want the fastest possible connection for you HDD with that board then you must plug it into the Highpoint RAID controller.
Reaper, why doesn't yours work? Do you know?
Sorry, canīt answer the question, but I just got a kt7a with an athlon thunderbird too...sweet, if only the damn thing worked!
Crap! I hadn't thought of that! Do i have to have a RAID HDD?
No bother, just watch what hard drives you try to connect to the Highpoint RAID controller, I bought an IBM 30GB 75GXP drive, and it just wouldn't read/write to the drive in anything other than PIO mode 4. After a little annoying the shop I bought it from, they swapped it for a Maxtor DiamondMax 30Gb drive, and boy is it fast on UDMA 100 (UDMA5).
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