Important Note to all A7V266 (-E / -EX / etc.) series and A7V333
owners:
There is an error in the manual regarding the CMOS memory reset
jumper (CLR_RTC):
It should read To clear, place a jumper on it, in normal operation
DON'T place a jumper on it.
The manual tells it the other way round (To clear take off jumper,
normal is with jumper)
I repeat: DO NOT power the mainboard while a jumper is placed over
CLR_RTC, this might damage your mainboard! In the forum
there were quite a few posts about boards loosing date and settings
after having been run with that jumper in place.
|
5.7.2004 |
Kudos to the Greek. They are European Champion - and they deserve it. Hellas! |
2.3.2004 |
Wow, 3.000.000 visitors up to now. Thanks to Marco for reminding me :-) And of course thanks to all visitors for showing so much interest in this site.
I never intended this site to be so popular. And even since I finally and copletely abandonned it some months ago (because following the original KT133 A7V I never owned a A7V series mainboard any more) the visitors are streaming to the forum and site. Really, I gotta do something - the forum is already taking up almost three quarters of the maximum number of allowed files on my server. Looks like it's time to switch the forum to a database-based one, soon...
Perhaps ASUS might be interested in taking over this site? Or someone else? As long as the current features and contents would be preserved I don't think I'd object. Let's see if someone contatcs me.
Update: my host upgraded the hosting package for free, so now I have no issues continuing to host the site. I guess this site will stay here "forever" :)
|
6.12.2003 |
Only interesting for german users (if at all): A7VTroubleshooting is morally supported by the following Online-Shop: |
9.10.2003 |
Braziliantech seems to be down forever. I am sad
that this happened. Daniel: The A7V Community will sure miss you!
As many people are searching for this, here's one of his modified
BIOSes: A7V133 1010beta1.
Only use this file if you know what you're doing. I assume no responsibility
whatsoever for what you do with this. If you don't know what it does
leave it be (or at least red the readme.txt inside). Greetings to
Marco, who was busy mailing this file around - seemingly it's not
been online up to now. |
6.8.2003 |
As you might already have noticed I am not updating this site any
more. Job and friends are much too time consuming, plus I don't
own a A7V any more since late 2001. This site and it's forum will
be up for your reference as long as I own the webspace, though.
And this will be quite long, given the fact that my private webpages
are on the same webspace. So this page will likely be up long after
the last A7V has been scrapped...
It was a nice time with you, have fun & see you on the next
mainboard related website - if time ever permits :-)
|
6.4.2003 |
Added Barton Support to the CPU
related information |
1.4.2003 |
The following is, of course, not true. Have a look at the date
;-)
The folks over at OCWORKBENCH have finally found a solution to
the A7V + FSB266 Problem. A post
in their forum tells about the undocumented Jumper "XP_FSB"
which enables the A7V to run 266FSB Processors like the AthlonXP.
Palominos have already been verified to run OK in almost all speed
grades, Thoroughbreds are still being tested with only 2000+ TBred
"B" verified up to now. Look into the thread there for
news on what limitations this solution has.
- Update: The thread seems to be down due to the lots of traffic.
Try again later, I'll try to post a copy of the link as soon as
I get the chance to download the page -
|
16.2.2003 |
Finally I updated the links
page ... thanks to Marco Fulvio for reminding me of the lots of dead
and old links. |
23.1.2003 |
... and the winner is: Daniel Luong from Australia! He was the
2.000.000th visitor. There is no price (this site is not commercial,
so where should I have taken it from?), but the fame of being mentioned
here should be enough ;-)
By the way: Thanks also to "GBujold", who sent me screenshots
of 1.999.999 and 2.000.001 - missed the mark, but not by much...
|
22.1.2003 |
Wow, we're approaching the 2.000.000th vistor.
If you are the lucky guy (or gal?) then please send
me a screenshot of the two millionth visit... |
14.1.2003 |
Updated the RD1 article with
new prices for BIOS Chip programming
of www.rd-computer.de
A7V333 1016 Beta 1
See the BIOS section
|
1.1.2003 |
Happy new Year!
The BIOS section has been heavily updated, all the popular boards
up to A7V333 are fully covered now. A7V8X will follow soon (including
A7V8X OEM BIOSes).
|
31.12.02 |
I wish everyone a nice party tonight!
... und 'nen guten Rutsch!
|
14.10.2002 |
Sorry for the few updates in the last month. This is what happened:
A7V8X (Retail version only!) 1007 Final and 1008 Beta 1
A7V333 1014 Final
A7V266 and all Variants (-E, -EX etc.)1013 Beta 1
Get
them directly from ASUS Germany Support
|
13.9.2002 |
New BIOSes:
BIOS 1006 Final for A7V8X
BIOS 1013 Beta 3 for A7V333
BIOS 1010 Beta 01A for A7V133
BIOS 1012 Beta 01A for A7V
Get
them directly from ASUS Germany Support
|
10.9.2002 |
Updated the CPU Info page. So many people were
asking about the best CPU that can be used on the A7V classic (KT133)
- this is now answered clearly. |
9.9.2002 |
New BIOSes:
BIOS 1006 Beta 3 for A7V8X
BIOS 1013 Beta 2 for A7V333
Get
them directly from ASUS Germany Support
|
2.9.2002 |
New BIOS:
BIOS 1006 Beta 1 for A7V8X
Get
it directly from ASUS Germany Support
|
30.8.2002 |
New BIOS:
BIOS 1005 Final for A7V8X
Get
it directly from ASUS Germany Support
|
28.8.2002 |
New BIOS:
BIOS 1005 Beta 2 for A7V8X
Get
it directly from ASUS Germany Support
|
27.8.2002 |
New BIOSes:
BIOS 1005 Beta 1 for A7V8X
BIOS 1004 Final for A7V8X
BIOS 1012 Final for A7V333
BIOS 1011 Final for the whole A7V266 Series including -E
and -EX
Get
them directly from ASUS Germany Support
|
23.8.20002 |
New BIOSes:
BIOS 1012 Beta 4 for A7V333
BIOS 1011 Beta 02 for the whole A7V266 Series including -E and -EX
Get
them directly from ASUS Germany Support
|
19.8.2002 |
New BIOS:
BIOS 1012 Beta 1 for A7V333
Get
it directly from ASUS Germany Support
|
15.8.2002 |
New BIOSes again:
BIOS 1011 Beta 01 for A7V266 and A7V266-E
Get
them directly from ASUS Germany Support (link fixed - thanks
to Evert Meulie from Norway!)
|
11.8.2002 |
I added a little info about the ROMSIP Jumper
in the Troubleshooting section. |
9.8.2002 |
There have been no updates for a while, simply because I had better
things to do (greetings to Karina ;-) ), plus I don't have broadband
internet any more. So no more mirroring of all ASUS BIOSes.
What happened in the meantime?
There have been loads of new BIOSes, the newest being
BIOS 1011 Final A7V333
Get
it directly from ASUS Germany Support
By the way, there even has been a new
BIOS for the ancient P2B Series that fixes an annoying bug with
higher multipliers.
Last but not least, Braziliantech,
the No.1 Source for modified ASUS BIOSes, seems down for the moment.
I wish Daniel all luck with the redisign he is appereantly doing.
Lumberjacker
is another very good source for modified BIOSs (RAID). It's in German,
but navigation should be straightforward.
|
9.7.2002 |
New Article online:
The RD1 BIOS Savior - upgrading
to DualBIOS
|
27.6.2002 |
I will be moving to another town tonight, so for a few days
I will not be able to update this site or reply to mail / forum
posts. See you all!
New BIOSes:
BIOS 1010 Beta 2 for A7V266-E
BIOS 1010 Beta 2 for A7V266
See the BIOS section
The same BIOS for the rest of the A7V266 series (eg. A7V266-EX
etc.) can be found at the ASUS
Germany Support Site.
|
14.6.2002 |
New BIOSes:
BIOS 1009 Final A7V266-E
BIOS 1009 Final A7V266
See BIOS section
The same BIOS for the rest of the A7V266 series (eg. A7V266-EX
etc.) can be found at the ASUS
Germany Support Site.
|
6.6.2002 |
New BIOSes:
BIOS 1009 Beta 1 A7V266-E
BIOS 1009 Beta 1 A7V266
See BIOS section
The same BIOS for the rest of the A7V266 series (eg. A7V266-EX
etc.) can be found at the ASUS
Germany Support Site.
|
24.5.2002 |
Wow, even newer BIOSes :-)
BIOS 1007 FINAL A7V333
See BIOS section
|
23.5.2002 |
Again, new BIOSes:
BIOS 1007 BETA 9 for A7V333
BIOS 1007 BETA 10for A7V333
See BIOS section
|
15.5.2002 |
Those ASUS people are going crazy. Three BIOSes in three days ...
with two versions missing.
Anyway, here's the newest BIOS:
BIOS 1007 BETA 7 for A7V333
See BIOS section
|
14.5.2002 |
New BIOS:
BIOS 1007 BETA 5 for A7V333
Plus: Many old BIOSes and some official ASUS descriptiones added
See BIOS section
|
13.5.2002 |
New BIOS:
BIOS 1007 BETA 3 for A7V333
See BIOS section
|
4.5.2002 |
I updated the "Supported
CPU" List to include the Thoroughbred CPUs.
New BIOSes:
BIOS 1008 BETA 4 for A7V266, A7V266-E
See BIOS section
BIOS 1008 BETA 4 for A7V266-EX, A7V266-M A7V266-C
can be found at the ASUS
Germany Support Site.
|
30.4.2002 |
New BIOSes:
BIOS 1009 FINAL for A7V133
BIOS 1011 FINAL for A7V
See BIOS section
|
23.4.2002 |
New BIOSes:
BIOS 1008 BETAs 1 to 3 for A7V266 and A7V266-E
BIOS 1006 FINAL for A7V333
See BIOS section
|
25.3.2002 |
The fan on your Northbridge Heatsink is broken? If you live in
Germany, you can get it replaced by a passive heatsink from ASUS.
See this article.
Several new BIOSes:
BIOS 1005 Final for A7V333
BIOS 1007 Final for A7V266 and A7V266-E
BIOS 1008A Final for A7V133
BIOS 1010A Final for A7V
see BIOS section
Or go to ASUS
Germany Support
|
5.3.2002 |
New BIOSes again:
BIOS 1007 BETA 3 for A7V266 and A7V266-E, see BIOS
section
Or head over to ASUS
Germany Support, there is the same BIOS also for A7V266-M and
A7V266-EX
|
1.3.2002 |
There are modified
BIOSes for the A7V133 available. These have the Promise BIOS removed,
but include SDMS Support (SCSI BIOS for BIOSless ASUS SCSI Controllers).
So if you don't boot from the promise (your harddisks on the promise
will work as normal, just booting is affected) and need SDMS, you
may want to try them. |
27.2.2002 |
New BIOS 1010 Final for A7V, see BIOS
section
New BIOS 1008 Final for A7V133, see BIOS
section
There are some more BIOSes over at ASUS
Germany Tech Support, for example for A7V133-C, A7A SEries and
A7M Series...
|
21.2.2002 |
New BIOS 1007 BETA 2 for A7V266 and A7V266-E, see BIOS
section
|
8.2.2002 |
Wow these ASUS guys come up with new BIOSes every week ...
New BIOS 1007 BETA 1 for A7V266 and A7V266-E, see BIOS
section
Or head over to ASUS Germany Support, there is the same BIOS also
for A7V266-M and A7V266-EX
|
5.2.2002 |
New BIOS 1006 FINAL for A7V266, see BIOS
section
Also I found a great resource for A7V266-E Info: Paradigm
Computer from UK
This site includes info on the undocumented multiplier settings,
as well as troubleshooting via changing IO Voltages.
|
21.1.2002 |
New BIOS 1006 FINAL for A7V266-E, see BIOS
section |
30.1.2002 |
New BIOSes 1008 Beta 1D for A7V133, see BIOS
section
New BIOSes 1010 Beta 1B for A7V, see BIOS
section
|
26.1.2002 |
New BIOSes 1006 Beta 5 for A7V266 and A7V266-E, see BIOS
section
I also added 1006 Beta 3 for A7V266 and A7V266-E.
|
21.1.2002 |
New BIOSes 1006 Beta 4 for A7V266 and A7V266-E,
see BIOS section |
16.1.2002 |
New BIOSes 1006 Beta 2 for A7V266 and A7V266-E,
see BIOS section |
11.1.2002 |
New BIOSes 1006 Beta 1 for A7V266 and A7V266-E,
see BIOS section |
7.1.2002 |
As I write this, we have had the 999.100th visit
to the www.a7vtroubleshooting.com
page.
If you are the 1.000.000th visitor, please take a screenshot (press
PRINTSCREEN to copy the screen to the clipboard, then open paint
and paste the clipboard there, save it) and send
it to me.
By the way: The counter is counting visits, not page loads. For
each IP adress, it counts only once every half an hour.
|
7.1.2002 |
New BIOS for A7V266-E : 1005
Final |
1.1.2002 |
Happy new Year, everyone! |
18.12.2001 |
There are two new FULL RAID BIOSes for the A7V266-E:
1005
Beta 15 full RAID by Braziliantech
1005 Beta 15 full
RAID by howi (thanks for the mail!)
Both are NOT OFFICIAL, but modified BIOSes created by enthusiasts.
Use at your own risk.
Both should theoretically be the same, the one by howi was tested
by him and found OK. You will need the hacked drivers from either
Braziliantech
or Crazy
Ape
|
14.12.2001 |
New BIOSes over at Tech
Support ASUS Germany :
A7V266
1005 Beta 15
A7V266E
1005 Beta 15
Copys of these new versions are in the BIOS
section, too.
|
13.12.2001 |
New
VIA 4-in-1 Drivers: Version 4.36 |
7.12.2001 |
Ther seems to be a solution for people looking for A7V266-E FULL
RAID BIOSes. See this
thread in the forum of the infamous www.Braziliantech.com
site. Someone sems to have finally done
a tool to manipulate the new BIOSes, and someone else (second
page of posts) did FULL RAID BIOSes.
Update: There is a tested
A7V266-E FULL RAID BIOS by Braziliantech out!
Why use FULL Raid? This allows you to use other stripe sizes than
the default ones, thus enabling MUCH higher RAID Performance. Also
disable CPU Idling in BIOS the get better HDD Performance. See the
Braziliantech
Forum for even more tips on this topics.
|
3.12.2001 |
New BIOS: A7V
1010 - 001-A Beta (direct file
link) |
30.11.2001 |
Attention A7V266 or A7V266-E users : The
Interrupt Table given in the A7V266 /-E Manual is WRONG. See the section
"IRQ Conflicts" on this
page for a updated version, plus information on what cards should
be placed in which slot. Also see the Athlon
XP Compatibility List for info on how to jumper the A7V266 /-E
for AthlonXP CPUs. |
29.11.2001 |
New: Added the Athlon
XP Compatibility List for all A7V Series Mainboards.
See here for Jumper Settings for AthlonXP, too! |
29.11.2001 |
New BIOS: A7V133 1008 - 001-B Beta
(direct
file link)
New: A CPU table translated from
ASUS
Germany. This tells you which A7V supports what CPUs.
|
25.11.2001 |
The forum is
up again. It has a few bug fixes as well as new features:
In your profile you can now select a country. This displays the
country's flag in your posts.
Some Posts might look a little strange at the moment, there still
is a small problem with the display routines which might cause some
words to be shown in bold, or < br> to appear in the text.
|
25.11.2001 |
The forum
is down for a software upgrade. It will be up later today, hopefully
with less bugs and more features. |
21.11.2001 |
A new edited BIOS is available: A7V
1009e
This version replaces the newer Build 42 Promise ROM with an older
Build 35. Some people complained about various problems with Build
42.
As always: Use at your own risk.See
the Modified BIOSes Section on details
The BIOS section has been updated
with all A7V133, A7V266 and A7V266-E BIOSes known to me.
|
31.10.2001 |
Wild speculation and misinformation have been
around the net since another video has turned up dealing with how
Palomino CPUs deal with running them without heatsink and fan. Here
is an article by me which hopefully dispells some "myths"
and lies surrounding the whole affair. |
28.10.2001 |
A lot of people in the Forum
have been having trouble after flashing the new BIOS versions. Although
the flashing was OK, after restarting the PC would not boot.
To avoid this, be sure to stick to the recommended BIOS flash procedure
as described in the BIOS section.
If you upgraded and your A7V does not boot, try
- Clearing CMOS
- Going to Jumper Mode
A new edited BIOS is available: A7V133
1007e
This version replaces the new Build 42 Promise ROM with an older
Build 35. Some people complained about various problems with Build
42, like not being able to boot from promise ATA100 or taking longer
to detect drives. See this
thread in the forum for details.
|
14.10.2001 |
Lots of new BIOSes over at Tech
Support ASUS Germany :
A7V266
1002.B Final ( 05.09.2001 )
A7V133 1007 Final ( =1007 - 002-A Beta )
A7V133-C
1007 Final ( =1007 - 002-A Beta )
A7V
1009 Final ( =1009 - 001-B Beta )
The new versions are now in the BIOS
section, too.
|
13.10.2001 |
The forums are up again - for good. You can access it via forum.a7vtroubleshooting.com.
The forum is now at my own webspace - which makes it faster as
well as more reliable (and, alas, more expensive for me...)
Searching does not work yet, plus all the links to the forum
on a7vtroubleshooting.com have yet to be changed.
|
7.10.2001 |
The forums are down, for quite a while now, actually. I
am sorry for this.
The Forums were hosted free of charge by www.qualityhosts.com up
to now. They went out of business, thus the forum is not reachable
any more. Thanks to Kevin and the other people at Qualityhosts for
the free hosting up to now.
What is happening now, and when will the forums be accessible
again?
I upgraded the webspace A7VTroubleshooting is on to support free
CGI scripts, so the forum will be moved here. You will be able to
access it via forum.a7vtroubleshooting.com.
Right now I am waiting to get the latest forum files back, so that
the forum can continue where it went down. If this works out, no
messages or user accounts will be lost.
This week I'll be away for work, but I hope the next weekend
will see the revival of the forum.
Other news is that I am not a part of the A7V community any
more. I dropped my A7V in favour of a Fujitsu
Siemens Computers D-1289 KT266 DDR Mainboard and a AthlonXP.
But: Neither the site nor the forums will be going down. As long
as I still own the webspace (where my private homepage is hosted,
too) both will be accessible, presumably for a time long after the
end of life of all A7V Mainboards that are in use right now :-)
Interesting news, A7V Related or just simply of interest to A7V
owners, will continue to be posted here.
|
11.9.2001 |
I offer my condolences to all People affected
by terroristic acts, especially the gruesome ones commited today
in the United States of America. All the flags in Germany are flying
at half-mast, even the company flags in front of my office window
are. All people I know here in Germany are deeply shocked and grieve
with you over this terrible loss of so many lives.
|
|
The Forum are down right now. This is due to problems
at Qualityhosts.com, who will go out of service, soon. In a few days
the forum should be accessible again and the will be transferred to
other webspace, soon. Most probably you will soon find the forum at
"www.a7vtroubleshooting.com/forum" or "forum.a7vtroubleshooting.com" |
3.9.2001 |
New A7V133
1007-001G, A7V133-C
1007-Gand A7V266
1002.B Beta BIOSes |
22.8.2001 |
New Article. Why was HLT disabled
in BIOSes newer than 1003 ?
This means: Why do1004 and above keep the CPU hotter than 1003 did?
Is it wise to reenable this ?
|
6.8.2001 |
New Article online : Ever wondered what CPU cooler to buy ?
See the review of 23 CPU coolers
for AMD Athlon.
Well, have a look at the other new article, too: What
heat transfer material is best ?
|
30.7.2001 |
Good News ! Chances are good that the next generation
Athlon "Palomino" will run without any problems in your
A7V or A7V133. I have a new
Article about A7V & Palomino online |
21.7.2001 |
I was told there IS a cooling program that works
with ATHLON on VIA chipsets. It is called VCool
- check it out ! |
16.7.2001 |
In the BIOS section, info on
what has been changed in recent A7V133 Beta BIOSes (1005A to 1006
Beta 01i ) has been included !
A7V133 : New BIOS
1006_01i at ASUS Germany FTP Server
On the ASUS Germany FTP Server a
new Promise Driver Version 2.0 Build 11 can be downloaded.
This one fixes data corruption issues with A7V 133 under Windows
2000 (ACPI mode) while copying large amounts of data from one hdd
connected to one promise channel to another hdd connected to the
other promise channel.
Although there are Windows 9x Drivers included, Do not use these
! Only the Windows 2000 drivers are meant to be used ! It has
not been tested with the A7V yet! This is an unofficial, undocumented
release !
More info can be found here
|
12.7.2001 |
A7V133 : New BIOS
1006_01g at ASUS Germany FTP Server |
18.6.2001 |
If you can't connect to www.braziliantech.com
try http://brtech.hypermart.net/en-us/ |
12.6.2001 |
Did you ever wonder what the changes in the A7V
1008 BIOSes are? Have a look in the BIOS
Section ! |
11.6.2001 |
Braziliantech has opened its Forums ! Have a look
at them here |
1.6.2001 |
New BIOSes again :
A7V133
1005 Final
A7V133-C
1005 - 001-A Beta
A7V
1008 - 001-E Beta
A7pro
1008 - 001-E Beta
|
29.5.2001 |
Bios Time !
As always: First at German
ASUS Support
A7V133
1004 - 003-C Beta
A7V
1008 - 001-D Beta
|
24.5.2001 |
The forums are online again |
29.4.2001 |
BRAZILIANTECH
has a fix for the data corruption probem with PROMISE ATA100. I updated
the appropriate troubleshooting
section.
For details see
this thread in our forum |
20.4.2001 |
New BIOSes :
A7V
1008Beta 01B
A7V133Beta
02D
|
16.4.2001 |
Viahardware has a bugfix for the data corruption problem when using
the onboard VIA IDE controllers of the A7V133 (not the PROMISE ATA100
ones! This problem remains unfixed)
See at the bottom of http://www.viahardware.com/download/viatweak.shtm
for details
More info on the bug is at www.au-ja.de
(in german AND english)
|
16.4.2001 |
I used the easter holidays to create a new
forum. The old
one is closed, but will remain online for reference purposes. |
5.4.2001 |
Today saw the 400.000th visit. |
1.4.2001 |
BIOS 1008 is out ! get it at
ASUS Germany Just a joke :-) |
31.3.2001 |
It is done. Now this site is moved to www.a7vtroubleshooting.com
- I thought it deserved so before we get our 400.000th visit ;-) |
29.3.2001 |
1007/FXD2 is available from www.braziliantech.com.
I don't really know what it does better than FXD, yet, but I'll
try. Any comments ? In the forum,
please.
|
27.3.2001 |
I'm back from CeBit. Read
here about what I talked about with ASUS Support and AMD |
16.3.2001 |
1007/FXD is quite in demand. www.braziliantech.com
is online again - at least the download area. Good news! Thanx Dniel
& Marcel !
1003e4 is available.
It includes the ATA100 BIOS 1.02 B35 from 1007.
New temperature measurements for the temperature
issue, regarding 1007/FXD
|
7.3.2001 |
New BIOS A7V133 1004Final
is available. As always, first at the ASUS
Germany Support Page. |
5.3.2001 |
Finally, the
section on overclocking is completed. Comments? In the forum,
please !
BIOS
1007 is out... no dramatic changes as it seems. 1003.A
Final for the A7V133 is out, too.
|
28.2.2001 |
Rumors have it that AMD tests totally locked CPUs.
Time to say goodbye to overclocking? I hope not! |
7.2.2001 |
Planet3DNow has an interesting article up regarding
stability of the A7V. Unfortunately it's in German - but if you can
read it, do so. Basically it deals with "DRAM Read Latch Delay" and
"Memory Early/Delay Write". Setting these to 2.11 ns and +1.0 ns is
reported to have made an unstable A7V stable. If you suffer from unstableness,
try playing around with these values. This
is the article |
1.2.2001 |
You might already have noticed it : I totally
redid the design. This should make reading this site a lot easier.
The previous design existed only due to a lack of time (and talent).
Damn it Jim, I'm a technician and no webdesigner! Also, I never
had planned this site to be popular ;-)
As always : no frames, no javascript, no flash, no banners, no ads
- just pure content ... |
17.1.2001 |
A lot more Bootlogos have been added to my other
website - unfortunately all the text is in German |