KT333(A) Details

Just got a new system, Athlon XP 1600+, Soltek SL-75DRV2 266A Motherboard (VIA chipset)(as recommended by Tom's Hardware and others), 512 Megs of DDR RAM, etc.


Anyways everything is working great, except I found out a major problem that affects many VIA chipsets: Data corruption when transferring large amounts of data between the two IDE channels.

Like, I was busy transferring data from my old HD on the secondary channel onto the new 30 gig one on the primary channel, and half way through I get an error. Reboot, and whaddya know, Windows is FUCKED. Re-installed, tried again, same shit.


Does anyone have any solutions to this? Apparently the 4-in-1s are a possible solution but other times they don't make a diff. I also read that if it ain't broke, don't fix it (referring to the 4in1s and their Bus Mastering support which apparently slows everything down quite a bit).

To install or not to install, that is the question.

VIA CRASHES LIKE A BITCH

trust VIA to make their mobos obselete in less than 6 months

I hear all this talk of VIA board = TEH SUCK. I have one and haven't had any problems with it, even when I had my SB Live on it. Running win2k and no issues whatsoever. Haven't updated the 4 in 1's in quite a while either.

Even though this newsbit is only about a chipset, I'm still hoping mainboard manufacturers are soon going to drop serial and ps2 and add more usb2 and firewire. Not to mention the whole serial ATA tech, and dropping isa (and amr please). I don't think present hard drives will be compatible with serial ata, anyone know?

And can we please have 1024 packets per burst? Please? My soundcard and hard drives will thank you! And no, 32 isn't enough.

http://www.tech-report.com/news_archive_overview.x/2002/1/3

Damnit, I just bought a KT266A board 3 weeks ago...

And yes, it's rock solid so far...

Now your computer can crash up to 10% more faster!

Hey! I was genuinely excited on the first post..!! why did ya remove it?
I don't care what people say about VIA I have a couple MOBO's from them as well and have never had any real issues with it. (now lets talk about OS's for a moment...)

These guys are _RETARDS_ if they think ANYONE is gonna buy the non A version.

Oh joy!!! Can't wait!!