ASUS A7V + Duron 700 = Good idea ?!?

[Marwyn]

Is good idea buy ASUS A7V and duron700 ( I have g400 DH, SB Live 1024, IBM 25Gb )
I have no information about problem with AMD procesors and VIA chipsets. Is anybody who can help me?
thanx

[Grego]

Well I have the Asus A7V and a tbird 800, it works perfectly no problems at all and I have a system rather similar to yours and have no problems, so all I can say is go for it!! Its cheap, fast and reliable

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System:
Asus A7V rev. 1.01b
AMD Thunderbird 800@800
SBLive retail with liveware 3.0
Matrox g400 MAX
LG Flatron 795FT 17# monitor
IBM 13.5 GB 7200 hdd
Pioneer 103-s dvdrom
Win98 2nd edition
directx 7.0a

[DentyCracker]

A7V is good Socket A mobo. It offers good FSB overclocking (up to 110 or so) and decent multiplier settings.
You may be lucky to get unlockable Duron (pencil trick) like I did. I hear that they are phasing those out.
Abit KT7 is a good board too but apparently csn't FSB overclock well. I haven't verified this with mine but then I'm still trying to get adequate cooling. Ambient temp. is in the 30s (Celcius) and CPU seems to bug out at above 48 degrees C. I suspect that I may not have good enough contact bet. HS and CPU core. Anyway Asus/Duron is a good combo enjoy.

[Alfie]

Duron600@945mhz.
Asus A7V mobo.
G400(sh)
Everything works flawlessly.
A winning combination!

[Marwyn]

Thanx again !!!
It is good news for me 8-)

[DentyCracker]

Silly me. I forgot that I had to pencil my week 32 Duron in order to get the TL bios to see it. When I upgraded to the UL bios I forgot to rub off the pencil mark. So I was running my poor wittle Duwon at 1.85 volts. No wonder it overheated. Anyway I rubbed off the pencil mark (not the ones on the L1 Bridges hehehehe), and now running cool (39-44). By the way, I swapped out my G400 SH for a Vanilla and would like to get my mobo to support AGP 4X according to PCILIST.
PCILIST says my Vanilla is at AGP 4x but sidebanding is disabled.
This is what it says
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AGP transfers
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The AGP aperture is currently set to 256MB.

The system board does NOT support AGP transfers. The graphics card supports up to 4X AGP transfers.

AGP transfers are NOT configured correctly - master and target differs.


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Sideband addressing
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The system board does NOT support sideband addressing. The graphics card supports sideband addressing.

Sideband addressing is NOT configured correctly - master and target differs.


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Fast writes
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The graphics card does NOT support fast writes.


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AGP revision
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The graphics card is an AGP 2.0-compliant device, and may not work correctly under Windows 95 or with first-generation AGP system boards. Ensure you have the very latest GART manager (AGP driver) installed.


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Related issues
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PCIList only queries the system configuration registers. In the event of problems, other things to check to ensure AGP support is enabled and working properly include the following:

- make sure the correct and latest GART manager (AGP driver) for your system board is installed, as well as the latest drivers for your graphics card and DirectX version

- in your system BIOS Setup program, the AGP aperture should be enabled and set to at least 64MB; an IRQ should be assigned to the VGA card; any option referring to spread spectrum should be disabled; and video BIOS and RAM shadowing should be disabled

- if the system has been overclocked to reach 698 MHz, the AGP clock may now be too high; system memory which otherwise works without errors may be unable to cope with the heavier demands of AGP traffic when running 3D applications

- some AGP features may actually be available in hardware, but be disabled in specific BIOS and/or driver releases, or even by user-configurable software switches (e.g., in the Windows registry)


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Device enumeration
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VIA CPU bridge (03051106h)
VIA PCI bridge (83051106h)
VIA ISA bridge (06861106h)
VIA IDE controller (05711106h)
VIA USB (30381106h) - IRQ11
VIA CPU bridge (30571106h) - disabled
Realtek Ethernet controller (802910ECh) - IRQ11
Brooktree video device (036E109Eh) - IRQ5
Brooktree multimedia device (0878109Eh) - IRQ5
Creative Labs audio device (00021102h) - IRQ5
Creative Labs input controller (70021102h)
Matrox VGA controller (0525102Bh) - IRQ10

Help, and I think it may be something to do with VIA AGP keys in the registry

[Alfie]

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DirectX
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DirectX has not been initialized by any application. Some display drivers only enable AGP capabilities on demand, i.e., when extra texture memory is required by a Direct3D application. You may get different results after executing a 3D application.


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AGP transfers
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The system board does NOT support AGP transfers. The graphics card supports up to 4X AGP transfers.

AGP 2X transfers are currently enabled.


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Sideband addressing
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The system board does NOT support sideband addressing. The graphics card supports sideband addressing.

Sideband addressing is currently enabled.


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Fast writes
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This is not an AGP 4X graphics card and the AGP fast write protocol is therefore not supported.


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AGP revision
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The graphics card is an AGP 2.0-compliant device, and may not work correctly under Windows 95 or with first-generation AGP system boards.


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Related issues
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PCIList only queries the system configuration registers. Other things to check to ensure AGP support is enabled and working properly include the following:

- make sure the correct and latest GART manager for your system board is installed, as well as the latest drivers for your graphics card and DirectX version

- in your system BIOS Setup program, the AGP aperture should be enabled and set to at least 64MB; an IRQ should be assigned to the VGA card; any option referring to spread spectrum should be disabled; and video BIOS and RAM shadowing should be disabled

- if the system has been overclocked to reach 905 MHz, the AGP clock may now be too high; system memory which otherwise works without errors may be unable to cope with the heavier demands of AGP traffic when running 3D applications


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Device enumeration
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Vendor 1106h - Device 0305h
Vendor 1106h - Device 8305h
Vendor 1106h - Device 0686h
Vendor 1106h - Device 0571h - IRQ14
Vendor 1106h - Device 3057h
Vendor 4005h - Device 4000h - IRQ3
Vendor 11C1h - Device 0440h - IRQ4
Vendor 105Ah - Device 0D30h - IRQ10
Vendor 102Bh - Device 0525h - IRQ11

This is what it's saying on mine,perhaps you should reinstall the Matrox drivers and the Via drivers.

Tbird 700@900mhz
Asus A7V mobo.

[DentyCracker]

Check this from powerstrip under win2k on the same Abit KT7/Duron 700 (no overclock)Diagnostic report
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CPU speed - 701 MHz
System board - VIA
Primary graphics card - Matrox 0525h
Silicon revision - 05h
Graphics memory clock - 180 MHz
Graphics engine clock - 135 MHz
Graphics card BIOS version - (V1.5) b22
Graphics card IRQ - IRQ11, shared
Graphics card AGP revision - 2.00
System board AGP aperture - 256 MB
System board AGP transfer support - 1x, 2x, 4x
Graphics card AGP transfer support - 1x, 2x, 4x
AGP traffic currently enabled - 2x
System board SBA - supported
Graphics card SBA - supported
AGP sideband currently enabled - yes
Pipelined transactions - supported, queue depth of 32
Fast write protocol - n/a
Graphics card memory - 32 MB
DirectX memory - 44 MB
AGP mode - DIME
Windows version - 5.0.2195
DirectX version - 5.00.2180.1
AGP driver - n/a
GART manager - n/a
Display driver name - n/a
Display driver version - n/a
OpenGL driver - g400icd.dll
OpenGL version - NT 4.50.015b, 2K 5.10.012a, 9x 6.00.010a

Device enumeration
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VIA CPU bridge (03051106h)
VIA PCI bridge (83051106h)
VIA ISA bridge (06861106h)
VIA IDE controller (05711106h)
VIA USB (30381106h) - using IRQ11
VIA PM controller (30571106h)
Realtek Ethernet controller (802910ECh) - using IRQ11
Brooktree video device (036E109Eh) - using IRQ11
Brooktree multimedia device (0878109Eh) - using IRQ5
Creative Labs audio device (00021102h) - using IRQ11
Creative Labs input controller (70021102h)
Matrox VGA controller (0525102Bh) - using IRQ11