Abit KT7A reliability poll

[legend245]

I have this board and after 2 months now and I've heard of high RMA rates for Abit and problem with them dying after 6 months.

To anyone with this board for an extended period of time....it it still working and how long have you had it?

Also, has anyone run the board w/o the northbridge fan? Mine is dying.

 

[djmr2]

 

[djmr2]

oops my bad

i've had mine for 8months now and no problems.. Tbird 850 @ 990
my northbridge fan is fine too

 

[Zap]

Close to 6 months. No problems with it being dead, but major stability problems, even with good components that test fine in another board (Iwill KK266-R). Using Athlon 1.2GHz AXIA (tested to over 1.4), Crucial CL2 PC133, nothing overclocked - even testing it UNDERCLOCKED it was very unstable. However, a friend of mine had the same problems and he traced it down to using hard drives on the RAID controller, but NOT in a RAID setup. I did the same setup. This week I'm going to try using the hard drives using the regular motherboard controllers instead of the HighPoint RAID controller and see if it works.

 

[BujinZero]

I am running an Athlon 1200 on my KT7A since early June, 2001 with almost no stability problems under Windows 98 SE. The only lockups that occur usually happen during some sort of disk access, even though they are fairly uncommon.

However...

Over the summer, a friend and I made five machines together using this mobo (along with its RAID brother). Three of the motherboards went to him for installation in customer machines, one for his personal use, and one went to me for the system I made for my personal use. ALL FOUR boards that went to him had to be RMA'd--talk about bad luck! Two were DOA, one died a few days later, and the last one (his RAID board, I think) made it about three weeks. ABit's support was worthless. He was pissed, so were his customers .

I think if you've made it two months, you're probably in good shape. Don't know about that northbridge fan, though. With my above experience with ABit, it wouldn't surprise me if they had some crappy northbrige fans on KT7As around the world. I'm sure there's some retailer that can sell you a replacement northbridge fan.

There's a slim chance I'll buy from ABit again, even though I hear many of their new boards are quite good (TH7II, KG7, KR7). When DDR RAM prices fall again, I'll probably replace my KT7A with either a ECS/SiS solution, or the board I routinely use in customer systems: EPoX's jewel, the EP-8K7A.

Good luck.

 

[Treeburst155]

Abit KT7A, lemme tell ya some stories. Hehehe...on second thought I don't have the 30 minutes necessary to list all the problems I had with it. Suffice it to say that I bought the board in June, it died a lingering death for the entire five months I used it. I replaced it a few weeks ago when it finally went completely berzerk, with an Iwill KK266+. Now I'm in heaven. Really, I am. Stay away from the KT7A. Save yourself $40 bucks and get something that works, and no, I'm not bitter.

 

[lmbebo]

Ive had my abit kt7-raid since November of last year I think. Haven't had many issues till now. Problems with my overclocked duron has caused me to run it at the default clock speed again. And some controller issues with XP. It was a great board for a good year or so. Maybe I'll retire it to my linux box or something. But it still works though.

 

[sparky59]

just retired my KT7A to the guest room computer. Replaced it with a Shuttle AK31A. had some stability problem at first but micron ram
cleared that up. the only other problem i had and also with MS bd. was that i could not get a home phoneline network card to work in it.
Damn 686b.

 

[breweyez]

i have had KT7 and KT7A raid board. They both were great. The only real issues where the via chipsets. I think abit is one of (if not the) best companys making motherboards. I plan on getting KR7A when the price comes out of the clouds.

 

[DieHardware]

The northbridge fan on mine makes a squealing noise on startup once in a while(heh-guess I should lube it).

 

[EtOH]

I have been running 2 of these since they came out with not one issue at all on either. Rock stable day in and day out.

EtOH

 

[JC]

I've had my KT7A-RAID for like 8 months now, it's been absolutely stable, good OCer too, little over 150MHz with house-brand RAM, have run as high as 1600MHz.
The northbridge fan has been a POS since day one, however :|

JC

 

[optimistic]

I got this board when it first came out for $139!!!! back in January 24. So I had it for eleven months!!

Its a good board. No problems. Stability. I o'ced to 148. And had an SBLive running inside with no problems.

But I gave it away just 2 weeks ago for my AK31 3.1.

In Grr's voice "I miss that board.."


Oh and if your northbridge fan is dying. You can buy a replacement at Fry's or wherever for $9.



What it looks like

 

[darth maul]

You said yours has been working for 2months? Ummmm, generally non moving parts that once working, will stay working for a long time, well past the time that you should have thrown it out that is. I think its time for a mug of your favorite beverage and think about what IS, not what MIGHT BE in the future. Hay everything breaks, but come on, sitting there worrying about it does no good.

 

[forkd]

I am running 2 of them....1 with a 1.4Gathlon oc to 1.55 and one 1Gig with no reliability or stability issues for almost a year. I am very pleased.

 

[Kenwood]

I'm running a rev 1.0 board with an AXIA K 1.33 @ 1520 with a 152 FSB and an oc'd video card. Rock stable no probs at all. 2 thumbs up from this user.

 

[NEWKILLA]

i have 2 of the same systems stated above, took a lil tweaking in the begining but that was me learning it,

now i have 2 race-horses with over-clocked vid-cards with NO issues whatsoever,

the fan on the northbridge------titan(no-pushpin) blue orbs-------WORKS FANTASTIC

KILLLA

 

[Spankthru]

I've had my kt7A for about 8 months with no problems. Just updated my BIOS to
64 and vias to v4.36. I've learned alot from this board though using Pauls FAQ
and everyone else too.

 

[Cpt. Duke]

i think I've had mine for about 10 months. I've never had any problems with it. This is my 3rd Abit motherboard, I think I'm hooked.

 

[billyjak]

Abit KT7 Raid board for almost a year, just sold it to get my for my KR7A Raid board.
That board was rock stable for me., just as my KR7A Raid board is.

 

[Rafael]

Mine is a used one, got it from Tweakmeister.
It is almost 1 yr old and no problems at all!
Been over 3 months now with me.

Raf

 

[WyteWatt]

I have a Abit KT7A raid mobo for about 10 months now and it is very stable. Had no problems at all. Worked fine right out of the box the first time i turned it on. This is my first home built computer!

 

[gothictech]

11 almost 12 months and no problems with it. Everything has been great since day 1.

 

[gtd2000]

KT7A since perhaps Feb 2001?

Absolutely flawless - even with Windows ME installed

Now running Duron 1Ghz @ 1200Mhz

 

[RustyNale]

I had the Abit KT7A first in my comp ( oc'd to 134fsb with an Athlon 750 @ 938), gave it to my wife and its still running for her though now only running at 850. This board has been rock solid and steady. I think I was lucky to get a good one...