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I know I am a newbie on this forum and I don't want to be rude, but I need help fast.

I have just received the price for my pc made especially for audio:
- 19" Highlight ATX Rack Mount Chassis 350W
- Moederboard Asus A7M266
- Processor AMD Athlon XP 1900+,266Mhz FSB
- CPU Cooler CoolerMaster CPU Cooler AMD Cooler AMD SocketA 1.4Ghz/1800+
- 2 Harddisk IBM DeskStar 60GXP, 60Gb, IDE, 7200rpm U-ATA100
- Sony 3,5" Diskdrive 1.44Mb
- Matrox Millennium G550 32Mb DualHead + DualDVI oem
- Monitor Iiyama TXA3823MT 15" TFT, 1024x768, USB+SPKR
- Logitech Cordless Desktop Optical
- Dane-Elec Dimm 512Mb DDR SDram PC2100
- Creamware Luna II+2496 I/O Box
- Win2K

The problem is the ASUSA7M266. They have replaced it with the ASUSA7V266 because they said that it could only be used for AMD Thunderbird up to 1.2 GHz, but not for the XP. I don't understand this. I was recommended this mobo on different forums and I was told not to buy the ASUSA7V266. I have looked at the specs at http://www.infinitevortex.com and it is clearly stated ASUSA7M266. Please help me, because I have to decide fast. I appreciate all the help I can get.

Bladerunner


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Bladerunner on 2001-12-22 02:20 ]</font>

Don't buy A7V, it sucks with Creamware cards, as already stated hundreds of times on this forum and others.
If you can't get A7M, then stay away from AMD. (p4 on Asus P4T-E, or maybe the new P4B266)

Kim.

I know that the ASUS A7V266 does not work with Creamware cards. I saw it on this and other forums. But why do they (the store) say that the A7M266 does not work on the Athlon XP when I see it everywhere and it was also recommended to me by a lot of people? I don't understand it. Does it have to be tweaked or something?

(Thanks for your fast reply by the way. I went for AMD because it is cheaper and better than the pentium)

so they say..

so what?

it works great

(;

all it takes is a BIOS update,
that 1 should b flashed BEFORE you attempt to boot with the XP cpu.
No update - no boot (!)
so:
download bios update file
boot with athlon
update
replace athlon with athlon xp