ORAC/mindstorm,
Sorry to hear you're both having trouble with the Socket A / UDMA100 boards. I slapped together a Duron 700 on a KT7-RAID a month of so ago, and fortunately had no problems with it.
Unfortunately though, I think I fell into the
"I have a 933MHz or faster CPU and my disks occasionally get corrupted. Why?" trap mentioned in the linked FAQ, as things went awry and I had to reinstall. (Running @950mhZ with an IBM DTLA-307015 hard disk, part of the 75GXP series). It's nice to know that it's a known issue which MS won't fix
At risk of asking the obvious, have you tried installing the video card or sound card separately? What was the outcome? If memory serves from the KT7 manual, the 6th PCI slot shares IRQ with the ISA slot, and the 5th PCI shares with the highpoint chipset. Since I don't use ISA, I've put my SB Live in the 6th PCI slot, and it works for me.
For SB drivers, I have downloaded "Liveware 3.00" instead of the drivers on the CD that came with it. I mention this because when I tried reinstalling the SB drivers from the CD, I'd get so far but the system would get stuck and choke on me. Liveware 3.0 seemed to do the trick.
Same might apply for the Matrox, but I don't know the chipset or anything else about those cards. (I have a new cheap and cheerful Leadtek Geforce2 MX.)
If it's any use, here's the setup in it's entirety :
AMD Duron 700@950
CPU core voltage 1.65v (default, so doubt your prob is there)
Abit KT7-RAID with "UL" BIOS
128MB PC-150 & 128MB PC-100 (I know, waiting for payday
)
IBM DTLA307015 UDMA100 15GB (on IDE3 RAID)
Seagate ST320210(?) 6.2GB UDMA33/66 on IDE 1
Pioneer DVD S115 & Zip 250 on IDE2
WinME (clean install)
As far as I know, all drivers are current. On that note, the VIA 4-in-1 only updates what it needs to, which was the AGP controller in my case, rest seem current.
If all else fails, is the shop you bought the board from likely to entertain an exchange, or use it themselves to try and replicate the problem?
Good luck and sorry if not able to be of much use. Feel free to email if you want nitty-gritty.
Cheers
Sq
Edit : If you haven't already, go through this specific FAQ page, as there's plenty to think about/try here.
http://www.apushardware.com/faqs/kt7...stability.html
[This message has been edited by Squiddley (edited 06 November 2000).]