An
Athlon motherboard manufactured by
Abit.
Some vital statistics:
Otherwise seems fairly typical for Abit boards: Some supposedly wonderful
overclocking features which I haven't looked into, and some
weirdness with certain peripherals and certain BIOS revisions (not to say there is any more weirdness than from any other manufacturer - I don't have enough experience to judge).
Specifically there is a strange
ps2-mouse 'jumping' issue which went away for some reason after I wiped and reinstalled with
Debian, but which I've later found is fixed in a
BIOS revision.
Also - and this bug is apparently
not restricted to the ka7 but applies to all
kx133 boards - It doesn't work with the
es1371 sound chip from
Ensonique, found in the
Creative Labs PCI128 soundcard. You can work around this by enabling the '15->16 MB Memory Hole' in bios (and then doing something weird but feasible to the kernel sources if you run
linux). I took my pci128 back and got worryingly
dear '
Soundblaster Live!' instead.
An unofficial
faq/help page is available at the time of writing at
http://go.to/ka7faq