Hello Boys (ladies),
I just joined here and may not post again... but I found this thread as I was searching for some Soyo K7VME help myself.
When I first got my Soyo bundle from Tiger, I had a few problems, too. To make a very long story short, most of them were solved when I found out that the K7VME motherboard manual had a very serious misprint. On page 12 (at least in my copy, October 2003) the illustration of the JP3 jumper is incorrect. In order to see the correct placement of the jumper pins, you must rotate the page 90 degrees counter clockwise. On the board the upper right pin is #2... not #1 as shown. So, if you need to set your jumper to 166 MHz, as I did, you will need to jump pin #'s 3&4, but their actual position is horizontal across the bottom, not verticle on the left, as shown in the diagram. Hope this helps some of you...! I learned this from the 7th tech guy I talked to at Soyo.
I built this machine to handle an LCD monitor, and with it's 32 megs of onboard graphics I thought it would do.... I surf, not game.... But then I found out about the DVI connector and better display, so I bought a Samsung 910T with VGA and DVI inputs. So then, I needed an adapter with a DVI out. So, I bought a Diamond Stealth Radeon 7000, S60. I put all this together and got poor results, mostly a fine display, but the colors were washed out. The Majic Tune or Natural Color did not help. I went to Radeon and got their card driver... ditto. The Soyo guy says the card is too old in it's technology, the Samsung guy says I should get a new video card driver from Soyo, but they just have an updated Via 4 in 1 (which you must get, by the way or the MOBO will not see your Sempron CPU). They do not have a separate video card driver. Right now I have my 910T plumbed straight into the VGA port on the K7VME and it's pretty good, but not great. If any of you wireheads have an idea as to how to straighten me out, please post.
I am 56 and am a gearhead, but I found out that computer parts aren't greasy, heavy and dirty... and I don't have to roll around on the cement to fix them.
Lastly, the whole point of this exercise was to severely reduce the amount of EMF's I was getting by staring at my CRT. About 3 milligausse is safe, two feet from your CRT you will get 30 to 100. EMF's cause your body to begin the blood clotting process, causing headaches... not screen glare, that would be eyestrain. Jet lag is a good example, sitting in a airliner you will be exposed to about 50 milligausse, that's why you feel crappy after a long flight. The longer the flight, the crappier you feel... ever wonder about that? I know, I am a veritable font of information.....! This has been a long read, but it's just me and the dog.....