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Hi,
I am using a A7V333 for about 2 years. Best computer I have owned (and put
together) I have had Gatways 3 Gateways and they all seemed to have small
flaws like with lock ups. All total I have had 9 computers and the A7V266
and A7V333 have been the best motherboards. My wife now uses the A7V266 and
it is nice not having to constantly trouble shooting it for her. I would
stick with Asus. I would suggest getting good memory.
I can boot Win 98se, 2k and XP on the A7V333. Windows XP works the best. I
would suggest a clean install of XP. Visit the web sites for driver upgrads
for the hardware and you will have a rock steady computer. Takes longer but
worth it.
I would suggest always partition the drive for a data drive for files. Let
the operating systems access the data drive and keep the systems backed up
with an image file. Then when the system is restored no email etc. is lost.
It is good that Win 98, 2k and XP can use the same data files on another
drive. Just remember to use FAT32 on the data drive. Image files saved me a
lot of times when I had a program that messed up the computer and would not
let me remove it completly. I must have restored systems on my computers 75
times and have never had a bad restore.
That is my 2 cents.
Joltjocky
I am an Electrician in case no one has figured it out.