Motherboard compatibility test
Abit VP6

Motherboard specifications CPU Dual Socket 370: Pentium III 500 MHz - 1 GHz Chipset VIA Apollo Pro 133A Expansion slots 5 PCI 1 AGP Storage I/O Onboard DMA-100 HighPoint Front Side Bus 133 MHz

Windows 2000 test results

Tested configuration CPU  Dual 1-GHz Pentium III BIOS Award version VP6UR  date: 11/16/00 Memory 256-MB SDRAM Storage  Used the onboard RAID Software Matrox Video Tools 3.0 with Adobe Premiere 6.0 Installed expansion cards  PCI 5  —  PCI 4  RT2500 codec card  PCI 3  —  PCI 2  Sound Blaster 128 Version: 5.00.2174.1 Date: 11/18/99 PCI 1  3Com network card Model: 3C595-TX Version: 5.22 Date: 04/21/98 Tested AGP display cards Card   Driver 16* 32* Matrox Millennium G550   Version: 5.12.01.1210 Date: 8/17/01 Yes Yes Matrox Millennium G450   Version: 5.12.01.1250 Date: 02/28/01 Yes Yes Matrox Millennium G400   Version: 5.12.01.1250 Date: 02/28/01 Yes Yes 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 AGP 64MB   Version: 1.04 Date: 09/09/00 Yes Yes Asus AGP-V7100   Version: 6.5 Date: 12/04/00 Yes Yes ATI Radeon 64MB Vivo   Version: 5.13.01.3102 Date: 03/07/01 Yes Yes ATI Radeon 32MB SDR   Version: 5.13.01.3102 Date: 04/07/01 Yes Yes ATI Radeon VE   Version: 5.13.01.3102 Date: 04/07/01 Yes Yes Creative Annihilator 2   Version: 6.5 Date: 12/04/00 Yes Yes Elsa Gladiac Ultra   Version: 6.5 Date: 12/04/00 Yes Yes Additional required software We installed patches and drivers in the following order: 1 Microsoft Service Pack 1 for Windows 2000. 2 Microsoft Hot Fix Patch, Q260233w2ksp2x86en.exe. 3 VIA 4-in-1 driver, version 4.29v. 4 Onboard HighPoint drivers were installed from the Abit floppy disk that comes with the motherboard, version 1.03B. Comments • To use a Matrox G550 display card with this motherboard, you must download and install version 5.71.014 of the Matrox display driver for Windows 2000, available from the Matrox Graphics web site. Make sure you install this driver before installing your Matrox RT2500 card. You must also use Matrox Video Tools 3.1 (Preview Release 1 or later). *16 and 32 refer to color depth in bits

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The information in this document is subject to change. For the latest updates to this information, please check this site often. Matrox does not guarantee that the hardware listed as recommended will perform adequately to meet any particular customer's needs. This document shows our results at the time of testing. Changes to these systems may have occurred since completion of our tests. Contact the motherboard and computer system vendor for particular BIOS versions. Other untested computer systems may provide adequate performance; however, you may experience configuration difficulties. This document was last updated April 10th, 2001 List of validated motherboards