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Posted by Thomas
McGuire on December 07, 2001
Manufacturer: Abit Product:
KG7-RAID Socket A Motherboard
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KG7-RAID
prices OR motherboard
prices index.
 Abit
is a highly regarded Motherboard manufacturer, with most of
their Products garnishing awards. The KG7 RAID is one of
their latest RAID capable Motherboards as well as support
Athlon XP CPUs, DDR RAM & AGP 4. So let’s see how it
stacks up…
As
you may notice the Motherboard features no ISA slot – this
shouldn’t be of much concern for most users though &
hey, it’s the obligatory Motherboard screenshot.
In
typical Abit fashion the Manual is well laid out, detailed
& should cover everything you’ll need to know to setup
your Motherboard – Everything from installing the CPU
& heatsink to configuring your BIOS settings. As it
happens updated Manuals can also be downloaded in PDF format
from the Abit website as well.
Installing
the motherboard itself was a resoundingly dull task. The
only comment worthy item was that I felt it was a bit hard
to get the restraining clamp for the heatsink attached
correctly, though if it were to have been too loose I’d be
complaining as well about it ;)
Other
than that I inserted/connected all IDE devices, PCI, AGP
cards, 256MB DDR RAM module & PSU without any problems.
The first time I powered on the system I entered the BIOS
& set about disabling all unrequired devices,
e.g. Floppy drive & COM ports, & set the DVD drive
to be the bootable device. After rebooting I then installed
Windows XP Professional onto my newly reformatted Hard
drive. Devices were detected as expected with 2 exceptions
(Although I had expected these exceptions ;)) – Creative
SoundBlaster Audigy & Sigma Designs Hollywood Plus. The
Audigy, obviously was recently so recently as to not have XP
Drivers available on the CD & according to Sigma Designs
the WDM (Windows Driver Model)
doesn’t correctly support Analog overlay, which the
Hollywood Plus uses, thus no Drivers on the XP CD. Going to
the respective websites I downloaded their XP Drivers &
both devices functioned normally.
For
using the KG7 – RAID it was installed with the following
devices;
-
IBM
Deskstar 75GXP Hard Drive – 30BG
-
Windows
XP Professional
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256MB
PC2100 DDR RAM
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SoundBlaster
Audigy Player
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Videologic
Vivid! XS Kyro 2 & Creative 3D Blaster Geforce
Titanium 200
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SupraMAX
56i Modem
-
Sigma
Designs
Hollywood
Plus DVD decoder
-
Intellimouse
Explorer
-
Pioneer
6X
DVD Drive
-
300
Watt Power Supply Unit
All
latest Drivers available were installed as appropriate. The
latest BIOS for the KG7 RAID was installed using Abit
Flashmenu (Leaked version seemingly).
In
the next page you will find KG7's Technical Specifications,
if you want to skip those, go over
here directly.
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