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morriswindgate · 07-22-2001, 04:18 AM

I have been using an 8K7A with a 1.2 GigHZ CPU and 512 of Crucial PC2100 for a couple of months with no problems, after I found the link below. The one thing that Epox and a lot of other MOBO Manufactures seem to skip on is the BIOS setup in their manuals. This is a real pain when setting up a board with something as new as DDR. The link below gives a detailed setting for the 8K7A and 8K7A+ boards.
It's a great board when it is setup this way, and it has a lot of features on the board, including keyboard start-up and the LED Readout for error codes.
The one thing that can cause some set-up problems is that the AMD761 Northbridge Mini-Port Driver need a Windows Program called "sucatreg.exe" to install and this is only available on a Windows98 SE, Windows98 SE Upgrade, or Windows ME disk. (Although you can easily copy this file from someones disk if you are using Windows98 FE as it is not in a zipped file on the disk)

http://www.lostcircuits.com/motherbo..._8k7a+/6.shtml

07-22-2001, 04:18 AM	#3
morriswindgate Banned Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Bakersfield,CA Posts: 7,761	I have been using an 8K7A with a 1.2 GigHZ CPU and 512 of Crucial PC2100 for a couple of months with no problems, after I found the link below. The one thing that Epox and a lot of other MOBO Manufactures seem to skip on is the BIOS setup in their manuals. This is a real pain when setting up a board with something as new as DDR. The link below gives a detailed setting for the 8K7A and 8K7A+ boards. It's a great board when it is setup this way, and it has a lot of features on the board, including keyboard start-up and the LED Readout for error codes. The one thing that can cause some set-up problems is that the AMD761 Northbridge Mini-Port Driver need a Windows Program called "sucatreg.exe" to install and this is only available on a Windows98 SE, Windows98 SE Upgrade, or Windows ME disk. (Although you can easily copy this file from someones disk if you are using Windows98 FE as it is not in a zipped file on the disk) http://www.lostcircuits.com/motherbo..._8k7a+/6.shtml