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by dandp38

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back in dec last year i purchased an abit-kt7a,and an amd-1ghz-200,740mb-pc133 mem,geforce2gts-32mb-ddr,soundblaster1024-live.i have updated to the latest bios,and all drivers,all was fine untill i purchased an amd-1.4ghz-266,i cleared the cmos and installed the pro but when i switched on and entered cmos softmenu it tells me its a 1050-100/33,if i try and put it at 1400-133/33 as soon as i try running nbench or 3dmark2001se it crashes out.at the moment it is running happy at 1300-100/33,thats the best i can get please can anyone help.

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by thechas

Beyond the BIOS revision;

1. Make sure that the RAM clock is set to CPU clock when using 133MHz as the CPU FSB. If the RAM clock is set to CPU + PCI, you are over-clocking your RAM.

2. What OS are you running? The change to the 1.4GHz CPU may have pushed your configuration over the edge for W98/Me.
If you are running 98/Me, reduce your RAM to below 511MB, and try again.

There are also a few "BETA" BIOS's out there for the KT7 series. Check out www.biosmods.com

A 3rd party support site for the KT7 boards is at www.viahardware.com/faq/kt7/kt7faq

The postings there helped me with a couple of problems I had with a KT7A MB.

Chas

by jeremyrem

It could be your Power Supply
Soemthings it is hard to detect but if it keeps locking up it might be the problem.

by guruofdos

Are you using a new Athlon XP with Quantispeed??....These 1.4 chips are 'PR rated' at 1.4 Gig....i.e. they perform equivalent to a Pentium at 1.4GHz, but run at lower frequencies....www.amd.com

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