Well, I got my Athlon XP 1800+. 
I cleaned the thermal pad off the heatsink real good with rubbing alcohol and all, and applied an even coating of Arctic Silver 3 to both the CPU die and the heatsink, making sure not to actually touch it with my finger (I used the back of the Athlon XP sticker to apply it, which seemed smooth enough)
I shut down the computer, took the old heatsink off (which was blazing hot) of the KT7a, and pulled out the T-bird 1.2 @ 1.33.
Then I put the XP in the socket, followed by installing the heatsink with the aid of a flat head screwdriver.
I crossed my fingers, and turned it on, then realized I forgot to plug in the fan. I ALWAYS do that!
It shut itself off pretty quickly, so that's pretty cool, and then I plugged the fan in, and powered it up.
Went into the bios to reset the config, as it was reading as an Athlon 1150. I set the CPU definition to XP 1800+, and the voltage to the minimum (which, due to a screwed up voltage regulator, gets bumped up by about .65 volts, turning out a result of the default 1.75 when set at 1.1), and everything else was left on the tweaked position.
I started up Windblows, and when it got to the desktop and was about to start Genome up, it rebooted itself. So I went into the bios and upped the voltage to 1.15 (1.8) and tried again. Same thing, only at a different point in the boot. So I went into the bios and upped to 1.2 (1.85). Same thing. I upped the I/O voltage to 3.5 before it would even get into windows without crashing. I'm assuming that my board being defective has to do with that.
Then when I got it all situated to where I was starting to install the 3dmarks, I encountered another problem. 3dmark2000 installed fine, but when 3dmark2001 installation initiated the texture conversion, the system locked up.
I went into the BIOS and turned off some insignificant AGP tweaks (fast writes, 1WS read/write), and set the AGP Aperture to 64 from 256
That allowed me to install 3dmark2001.
Then when I went to run 3dmark2000, the computer rebooted itself again. So I tried turning off AGP 4x, and it allowed it to start. When I ran the default benchmark, a few seconds into the first demo, it locked up.
I tried setting the AGP Drive control manually to "EA", which is the most successful drive control setting that I've experienced in the past, and it still locked up.
So I tried decreasing the memory timing to Fast (from Turbo)
I'm starting to run out of ideas
Anyone else have any experiences like this with a KT7a 1.1 updated to bios 7n?
I cleaned the thermal pad off the heatsink real good with rubbing alcohol and all, and applied an even coating of Arctic Silver 3 to both the CPU die and the heatsink, making sure not to actually touch it with my finger (I used the back of the Athlon XP sticker to apply it, which seemed smooth enough)
I shut down the computer, took the old heatsink off (which was blazing hot) of the KT7a, and pulled out the T-bird 1.2 @ 1.33.
Then I put the XP in the socket, followed by installing the heatsink with the aid of a flat head screwdriver.
I crossed my fingers, and turned it on, then realized I forgot to plug in the fan. I ALWAYS do that!
It shut itself off pretty quickly, so that's pretty cool, and then I plugged the fan in, and powered it up.Went into the bios to reset the config, as it was reading as an Athlon 1150. I set the CPU definition to XP 1800+, and the voltage to the minimum (which, due to a screwed up voltage regulator, gets bumped up by about .65 volts, turning out a result of the default 1.75 when set at 1.1), and everything else was left on the tweaked position.
I started up Windblows, and when it got to the desktop and was about to start Genome up, it rebooted itself. So I went into the bios and upped the voltage to 1.15 (1.8) and tried again. Same thing, only at a different point in the boot. So I went into the bios and upped to 1.2 (1.85). Same thing. I upped the I/O voltage to 3.5 before it would even get into windows without crashing. I'm assuming that my board being defective has to do with that.
Then when I got it all situated to where I was starting to install the 3dmarks, I encountered another problem. 3dmark2000 installed fine, but when 3dmark2001 installation initiated the texture conversion, the system locked up.
I went into the BIOS and turned off some insignificant AGP tweaks (fast writes, 1WS read/write), and set the AGP Aperture to 64 from 256
That allowed me to install 3dmark2001.
Then when I went to run 3dmark2000, the computer rebooted itself again. So I tried turning off AGP 4x, and it allowed it to start. When I ran the default benchmark, a few seconds into the first demo, it locked up.
I tried setting the AGP Drive control manually to "EA", which is the most successful drive control setting that I've experienced in the past, and it still locked up.
So I tried decreasing the memory timing to Fast (from Turbo)
I'm starting to run out of ideas
Anyone else have any experiences like this with a KT7a 1.1 updated to bios 7n?
sorry i spend a lot of time repairing 9x systems and wasnt thinking
