Introduction

we are taking you folks the KT7A Bios Tweak Guide. Something that will expectantly help all of you get every last bit of performance out of your system running the Abit KT7A and KT7 Motherboard. Although anyone using the KT133 or KT133A based mobo's should be able to advantage from the settings I will be highlighting in this article

Let us go forward and jump right in without wasting too much time explaining. First off, system specs:

CPU: AMD 1.2GHz T-Bird @ 1333 MHz

Memory: Tonicom PC166

Motherboard: Abit KT7A RAID

Video Card: Visiontek Geforce2 GTS 64meg

Hard Drive: Maxtor 40G 7,200rpm

Sound Card: Guillemot Maxi Sound Muse

CD-Rom: A open 16x40x 1640Pro

Various other items that should not make a various performance wise.

Benchmarking Utilities used in this Article:

• Sisoft Sandra
• MadOnion's 3dMark2001
• Quake III

SoftMenu III: Let us touch just a bit on this before we continue. Firstly, if you have an Abit mobo, and you have been in the bios, you know you will require tapping the "Delete" key some times on boot-up in order to access the BIOS screen. Here is a screenshot of what you will come to when that occurs:

If you are known with Abit SoftMenu III, you will be in accurate place. If your not, well, I recommend going through the various menu's and get familiar. Do not worry; it will become second nature to you in no time. Especially if you would like to get your system up and running at best performance.

Before receiving into any tweaks or settings, the first thing you can do is initiate the "Load Optimized Defaults". This function loads factory value settings for optimal performance system operation. And c'mon. Anything that says "Optimized" has got to be a good thing! Just tab over to the Load Optimized Defaults option as seen below and press enter, you will be prompted for a y or n. press y for yes, then enter and viola! Your bios have been optimized. Remember, you will still have to go through and adjust settings based on your specific needs, but as a general rule of thumb, this can be one of the first things you do in the BIOS when firing up a new system.