don't know if this is new here or not,have been off the net, gone fishing for the 5 days
News From the Front Lines - 7/7/2000
Disclaimer: this statement is based strictly on Falcon Northwest testing data.
For the past few weeks we have been offering Thunderbird systems only with 3dfx based graphics cards due to pre-production stability problems with KT133 chipset/ nVidia card combinations. Many of our customers have been waiting on the retail release to have these issues solved. We have now confirmed that nVidia products are currently incompatible with both the MSI and FIC brand KT133 Thunderbird motherboards that are now shipping to retail. The problems appear to be an incompatibility between the KT133 chipset and any AGP nVidia based product, TNT2 through GeForce 2. They manifest themselves in random instability, everything from rebooting in BIOS screens to lockups after hours of benchmarking. Although we encountered these problems several weeks ago, we had hopes they would be solved before these products hit the retail shelves next week. At this time none of the manufacturers involved have offered us a fix, or even an identification of the problem, so there will be no way that we can offer Thunderbird/nVidia combination systems at this time. I need to make it very clear that this problem in no way indicates bugs with the Thunderbird chip, the KT133 chipset, or any nVidia component. At this time it appears to be simply an incompatibility. Our 1 GHz KT133 based Thunderbird systems with 3dfx Voodoo 5 cards are not experiencing any difficulties whatsoever, and are wickedly fast. The respective manufacturers have confirmed and are aware of the situation and we expect a solution soon. In the meantime, thank you for your patience.
Kelt Reeves
Falcon Northwest
http://www.falcon-nw.com/index2.html
News From the Front Lines - 7/7/2000
Disclaimer: this statement is based strictly on Falcon Northwest testing data.
For the past few weeks we have been offering Thunderbird systems only with 3dfx based graphics cards due to pre-production stability problems with KT133 chipset/ nVidia card combinations. Many of our customers have been waiting on the retail release to have these issues solved. We have now confirmed that nVidia products are currently incompatible with both the MSI and FIC brand KT133 Thunderbird motherboards that are now shipping to retail. The problems appear to be an incompatibility between the KT133 chipset and any AGP nVidia based product, TNT2 through GeForce 2. They manifest themselves in random instability, everything from rebooting in BIOS screens to lockups after hours of benchmarking. Although we encountered these problems several weeks ago, we had hopes they would be solved before these products hit the retail shelves next week. At this time none of the manufacturers involved have offered us a fix, or even an identification of the problem, so there will be no way that we can offer Thunderbird/nVidia combination systems at this time. I need to make it very clear that this problem in no way indicates bugs with the Thunderbird chip, the KT133 chipset, or any nVidia component. At this time it appears to be simply an incompatibility. Our 1 GHz KT133 based Thunderbird systems with 3dfx Voodoo 5 cards are not experiencing any difficulties whatsoever, and are wickedly fast. The respective manufacturers have confirmed and are aware of the situation and we expect a solution soon. In the meantime, thank you for your patience.
Kelt Reeves
Falcon Northwest
http://www.falcon-nw.com/index2.html