Firmware update: Abit KT7A
Devster writes: “One day after the VIA 686B bugfix BIOS, Abit releases a ZT beta BIOS for the KT7A series. Also in this release, the 686B bug is addressed, in addition to a change in the default settings for the IDE controller. accompanying text file a comment is made about a possible solution to the problem with soundblaster Live! sound”:
Beta bios for KT7A/KT7A RAID!!! For Evaluation Only !!!
- Change the default setting of primary/secondary master/slave IDE to “auto-detecting”.
- Adds the following three options which was recommended by certain hardware review webpage.
- Delay Transaction (Advanced Chipset Features)
- PCI master Read Caching (Advanced Chipset Features)
- PCI master timeout (Advanced Chipset Features)
- Some customers said setting the above three options to “Disabled/ Disabled/0” individually may help DMA and sound issue.
- Date: 4/19/2001
Any success/failure case report to the following email please.
[email protected]
Version number | ZT Beta |
Operating systems | Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Linux |
Website | Abit FTP |
Download | ftp://ftp2.abit.com.tw/pub/beta/kt7/bios/kt7ztb01.zip |