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Installation
The motherboard
installation was pretty straightforward and didn't require to set
any jumper. K7T266 Pro2 fits into a smaller case, but we recommend
to use it in a medium or large one. I also recommend you to insert
the USB connectors into the appropriate headers when there are no
PCI cards in place. These USB headers are not in a very accessible
location and you will find a later installation quite tricky. Memory
modules also have to be inserted before the AGP card.
Once the system
POSTS you have to enter the BIOS and adjust the CPU properties.
We used an Athlon XP 1600+ CPU to test the motherboard stability
and performance.
| Motherboard |
MSI
K7T266 Pro2-RU version 2.0 BIOS 3.1 date 2001-10-04 |
| CPUs |
Athlon
XP 1600+ 1.4Ghz / 266Mhz |
| Cooler |
Swiftech
MC462 |
| Memory |
Crucial
256Mb PC2100 DDR unbuffered ECC
Kingston
256Mb PC2100 DDR unbuffered memory
Crucial 256Mb PC2100 DDR unbuffered memory
Crucial 256Mb PC2100 DDR registered memory
TwinMoss 128Mb PC2100 DDR unbuffered memory
|
| Video card |
MSI
GeForce3 64Mb DDR |
| Hard disk |
Seagate
Barracuda 20Gb 7200rpm |
| Case |
generic
mid size tower |
| Network
card |
SMC
EZ Card 10/100 SMC1244TX |
| Operating Systems |
Windows 2000 SP2
Linux Mandrake 8.1 |
| Drivers |
VIA
4n1 4.35
nVidia Detonator 21.83 version
Operating system drivers |
| Benchmarks |
SiSoft Sandra 2001se Professional
Ziff Davis Content Creation Winstone 2001 ver 1.01
Ziff Davis Business WinStone 2001 ver 1.01
BapCO SYSMark 2001 patch3
Quake III Arena 1.17 |
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On MSI supplied
CD you can find the necessary drivers. Anyway you need only 4n1
drivers, but it's better to download the new version from VIA's
site. In order to use the USB2.0 standard you have to download
the latest Windows update because I heard there are problems with
the standard driver in Windows 2000. Download SP2 because at least
from our point of view there are no problems with it.
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