Abit Kt7a motherboard and Athlon XP ?

[Bigcris76]

My questions is: could I put an Athlon XP in my Abit KT7-A motherboard? This motherboard supports the 133Mhz FSB and AMD Athlon up to 1.4 Ghz. My motherboard is Version 1.2, and Abit says only the 1.3 Version works with Athlon XP processors. Does anyone know if it would work for me to put in an Athlon XP 1600+ (which runs at 1.4Ghz) ? I mean why would version 1.3 work and 1.2 not work? It's the same chipset after all.... Has anyone tried this? Thank you !

[spiderman2]

It does work, but is missing some hardware for a clean boot , sometimes it may hang but the reset button will fix it. I have a XP 1500 running in a ABIt KT7 without out the a, a bit harder to work but it does, I unlocked the xp 1500 and run XP at 12.5x100-115. I just didn't want to buy a old althon reg chip , just to buy a xp later-. And the cheaper xp are less than a 1400, figure that out.)-|

[SPEEDO]

Give $1500-P4 gamer a PM I think he has messed around with this setup....:D

SPEEDO

[$1500-P4 gamer]

Yes, it will. Mine is the MSI K7T Turbo2 LE (limited edition) http://www.msi-computer.de/ which has special O'clock features and stuff over the reg. Turbo2. Anyhow mine is the revision of yours (1.3).So mine works Officially. I checked yours though for you. I learned way back if you got the VIA blues go to these dudes.

Here: http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kt7/kt7faq.htm



KT7A/KT7A-RAID versions 1.0 to 1.2: All Athlon (Thunderbird) processors with both 100MHz and 133MHz FSB. AthlonXP processors are not officially supported due to a minor timing problem that can require you to hit reset during a cold boot. Unofficially, however, few people seem to experience this problem and these processors work fine.


You should be just fine 10/1 odds in your favour! The 1 being that if it fails to boot simply press the reset button one time (leave power on) and it will post. So either way it will still turn on its just not official cause that one in 10 machines you have to bump reset sometimes/ sometimes not. Liek I said though it will post either way so its gonna work. Its just a small bug in some particular ones not even most of them. No biggy though. Pretty safe bet you'll be O.K. Hope that helps you.;)