Iwill rocks

[ovoskeuiks]

Iwill rocks all that agree say aye

[SilverPriest]

Nay :p
They are too up and down to be definite, remember how trouble free the xp333 was.....

[whetu]

had too many bad experiences with iwill to like them

[MrThc]

the Iwill KK266 was a great board, but Iwill havent really released anything good since then.. I'd say ALI Magik is the main reason for problems ;)

[ovoskeuiks]

I should rephrase that then
i have a kk266 r and IT rocks
so all who agree that my motherboard rocks say aye

[Humantuckshop]

OK I will tell you what you want to hear - your mobo rocks.

Unfortunately my XP333 doesn't really. Although with mah unlocked XP 1700 - I am beginning to like it more.

[GooGlo]

Ill agree, I got an iwill KA266+. A lot of people have had huge trouble with them but I love mine :D

Awesome board...

[DexTeRiTy]

nah even tho ive ive got one. ill have to say no

[Viper_NZ]

Iwill KK266 Rocks..

Unfortunately after that the Athlon boards went to ****ty ALi chipsets. And the Pentium boards I just don't care about....

Maybe one day they'll make an AMD board with an nVidia or VIA chipset, which might be worth looking at again....

[ScREWtop]

Hi All,

I'm new to this forum.

Iwill had a great run with KK266 but after that, it was all down hill. Iwill has too much RMA's and over the last few months, 10% in some cases.

Depending on batches, both XP333 and XP333R's had good and bad batches.

The Ali chipset is killing Iwill's R&D and they have decided not to launch the KK333.

Iwill's MPX2 will be the last AMD motherboard under Iwill brand. Iwill has decided to go with Intel from now on--announced in last month's meeting.

Whether Iwill will rock or not, I wont know. But the R&D is playing safe and betting Intel on boards.

[GooGlo]

Welcome ScREWtop :)

Finally deserted your own forum eh? ;)

Iwill has good and bad. Its been getting worse with the more recent boards. They need to get their sh1t togther ;)

[ScREWtop]

Originally posted by GooGlo
Welcome ScREWtop :)

Finally deserted your own forum eh? ;)

Iwill has good and bad. Its been getting worse with the more recent boards. They need to get their sh1t togther ;)

Thanks Googlo. Gotta get out some times :)

(edit) sh1t "happened" when one of Iwill's founding director left last year. He was the one who made a name for KK266... remember that was a bad batch and Iwill announced a recall and replaced customers boards directly? Yup, that guy left to setup his own biz.

[Roman]

Iwill backed out of AMD boards altogether now, right?

they did have some major problems with the KK266 back in the days

[swiftynz]

i had a Ka266+ until JB advertised a GA7DXR+ for $150 :D.

i didn't like the Ka266+ at all. in fact, i sold it for $130 to a guy down the hall. he's happy since it was a very cheap DDR board for him and i'm happy cos the upgrade to the GA7DXR+ only cost me $20 :) (it's blue, it's got raid and numerous usb ports!)

i had numerous problems with it. ALL my ide devices except my Barracuda IV refused to run in anything but PIO mode, it had that posting problem with morgan and palomino cores (yes i know, i should have done the research b4 i bought that Duron 1200) and performance was less than satisfactory (it was really slow in windows for some reason).

i'm glad you like yours Googlo but i certainly didn't like mine. i will never buy another iwill... lol

/edit and that concludes my 10th post... time to put up me old avatar :D

[Roman]

Well, i think it may have been the CPU you chose, it if had problems with the Morgan and Palomino care, the board may just run fine with the older Thunderbird or older Duron CPU's...?

Most of the time, the problem with the system is between the Keyboard and the Chair.

[whetu]

Originally posted by Roman
Most of the time, the problem with the system is between the Keyboard and the Chair.

i think you mean PEBMAC - Problem Exists Between Monitor And Chair ;)

[_N_]

I use to think Iwill was the number one, cause all my friends had the KK266A boards and I got brainwashed by them bragging about their great this and great that.

But now, Iwill is pretty outdated. No good boards have come out in quite a while.

The XP333 was a bunch of hype, ALI is hopeless.

My laptop uses ALI chipset and getting drivers for it is soooooo hard, in my opinion, VIA is much better.

[SilverPriest]

No, he means PEBKAC
Problems exists between keyboard and chair :p

[swiftynz]

well in my case (gee thanks guys), changing to a TBird AXIA 1ghz didn't fix ANY of the problems except the posting problem (funny that).

yes i know i should have done my research but the only problem that it had with the morgan duron was that it wouldn't post until you hit reset 5 seconds after powering it on. after that it was sweet.

you will notice from my sig that i currently own a tbird, although it is on loan currently to the person that i sold my ka266+ board to (currently using my duron 1200 that i am selling to my brother to use on a soltek 75kav). the Ka266+ came out just before the palomino's/morgans so you'd think that they would get the details on the new cpu from AMD... but no.

[Roman]

Originally posted by SilverPriest
No, he means PEBKAC
Problems exists between keyboard and chair :p

Precisely what i wanted to say :D :D :D

[Roman]

Originally posted by swiftynz
well in my case (gee thanks guys), changing to a TBird AXIA 1ghz didn't fix ANY of the problems except the posting problem (funny that).

yes i know i should have done my research but the only problem that it had with the morgan duron was that it wouldn't post until you hit reset 5 seconds after powering it on. after that it was sweet.

you will notice from my sig that i currently own a tbird, although it is on loan currently to the person that i sold my ka266+ board to (currently using my duron 1200 that i am selling to my brother to use on a soltek 75kav). the Ka266+ came out just before the palomino's/morgans so you'd think that they would get the details on the new cpu from AMD... but no.

Well, is the mobo working ok with the other guys system now...? if it is, maybe you just have a system component (Like a Sound Blaster Live! ) that may have been screwing up the system stability?

[swiftynz]

no complaints about stability... in fact i was pleasantly surprised in how stable it was (althought the gigabyte with the amd760 chipset does seem to be more stable). the main problem was the PIO mode with my cdroms and ata66 HDD, and since the guy who has it now is running a 4x cdrom :eek: instant pio is to be expected. his hdd is running udma though so perhaps it was the IBM HDD?

[Agent 86]

I had a kk266, great board except for the sblive problems, used an mx300 instead. Iwill took a big gamble with the XP333. They could of ridden on the successs of the KK266 and followed the rest making kt266s boards but went for something totally different. I give them credit for thinking outside the square and having a go, just wish the XP333 wasn't such a fizzer.

[Gh0s7 L3mUr]

Supposedly the latest BIOS fixes alot of the problems with the XP333 series. I am goind to stick it on my XP333/r as soon as I can get a hold of a FDD.

[GooGlo]

Originally posted by Gh0s7 L3mUr
Supposedly the latest BIOS fixes alot of the problems with the XP333 series. I am goind to stick it on my XP333/r as soon as I can get a hold of a FDD.

LOL :D

I got rid of mine a couple of weeks back. Ive got some lying round if any of you guys need something to flash the bios with. :D

[FruitLooPs]

Originally posted by swiftynz
well in my case (gee thanks guys), changing to a TBird AXIA 1ghz didn't fix ANY of the problems except the posting problem (funny that).

yes i know i should have done my research but the only problem that it had with the morgan duron was that it wouldn't post until you hit reset 5 seconds after powering it on. after that it was sweet.

you will notice from my sig that i currently own a tbird, although it is on loan currently to the person that i sold my ka266+ board to (currently using my duron 1200 that i am selling to my brother to use on a soltek 75kav). the Ka266+ came out just before the palomino's/morgans so you'd think that they would get the details on the new cpu from AMD... but no.

My friend has found the morgan problem the hard way, hes got a morgan 1ghz and Ka266+ board and it worked fine, for a week. Then it stopped booting we found out that a capacitor had fallen off the board. so he got another board - same one, this one refused to boot completely. So he took it back and the store owner tried it and couldnt get it to boot aswell, so he got a XP333 the other day, and that doesnt boot either.

So morgan's and Iwill dont mix alright.

[KingJackal]

Originally posted by FruitLooPs
So morgan's and Iwill dont mix alright.

Swifty and me tried his Morgan in my old Abit KT7A. No go.

Morgans and d@mn near ANYTHING don't mix - especially anything pre KT266 :(.

It's not the mobo makers' fault, it's that the CPU's don't adhere to the same spec as the older socket-A chips.

[swiftynz]

Originally posted by KingJackal


Swifty and me tried his Morgan in my old Abit KT7A. No go.

Morgans and d@mn near ANYTHING don't mix - especially anything pre KT266 :(.

It's not the mobo makers' fault, it's that the CPU's don't adhere to the same spec as the older socket-A chips.
yea you're right about that KJ but remember the the Abit KT7A is WAY older than the Ka266+.

imho releasing a motherboard that doesn't support a new cpu just before it is released isn't good enough. they should have found out what the specs of the new cpus were before they released the board. the ka266+ was released in august and the palomino soon after (not sure exactly when). a board that's obsolete 2 months or less after its release? i can forgive the KT7A for not being compatible and even the KK266, but not the KA266+.

/edit
in thinking about it a bit more though, it's probably ALi who are to blame. stupid iwill for using ali chipsets.

[Gh0s7 L3mUr]

Originally posted by GooGlo


LOL :D

I got rid of mine a couple of weeks back. Ive got some lying round if any of you guys need something to flash the bios with. :D

YGM :D

[shag]

I'm still running my Kk266r and haven't had any problems to date. I did a lot of research before i got this board and at the time it was prety much as good as they got according to all the reviews and people I talked too.

Unlike others, I had no problems with getting the raid running sweet - once again it all comes down to doing the research on what drivers to use. I was expecting the board to last a little longer as far as processor upgrades go though but them there's the breaks:rolleyes: . At least the kk266 still works with the thunderbirds so I picked up this second hand 1333 to replace my durrie 800 to keep it up to speed. And I'm prety sure i'll still be running this board for close to another year yet before I need some more horse power :) .

So overall, I'm prety happy with my experience with Iwill although I doubt I'll be buying one again with the problems the've had with their other boards :(

[Stove]

Iwill Rocks?
Put it this way: I wish I'd never upgraded from my SDram Epox 8KTA3L+ : THAT rocked, My XP333 sucks BIGtime. Prformance is only fair, and stability is a pain in the butt. And I have lost over $50 on a graphics card I bought for it that I could never install, as it wouldn't work. I'm basically just hanging on to my mobo for now,, until Epox bring out a KT400 one. :mad:

[Ice Czar]

Originally posted by ovoskeuiks
Iwill rocks all that agree say aye

NAY
KA266-R up an died :mad:
Abandoned all the data on the RAID cause I didnt want to have to get a board with the same RAID chip.

[KingJackal]

<NOTARECENTIWILLBUYERSFLAME>
Perhaps it's better to say:

Iwill + VIA r0><0rz!

Iwill + ALI su><0z!

I can't stress it enough. Research -> Buy. Not the other way around. Anyone that bought a KA266 recently and got problems was asking for it. Basically every revue of them paints them in either a really bad light or a really mediocre light.

I had a KK266+. Because my research suggested that it r0><0r3d. And it did. It kicked ass - 164MHz fsb @ CAS2 stable as a rock. Nothing else came close that people I knew had ( except Cheetors' KK266-R that did 166MHz, hehehe ;) :p ).

...but note that I was keen to buy an XP333 from the day they came out.... but never did.... and wound up buying an Abit KR7A-RAID...

Wanna know why? Cos I do my research. That and the fact that I never buy anything on release date, so I always know what I'm getting ;).
</NOTARECENTIWILLBUYERSFLAME>

[Ice Czar]

Originally posted by KingJackal
[B
Iwill + ALI su><0z!

Anyone that bought a KA266 recently and got problems was asking for it. [/B]

I agree, unfortunately I got mine when they where all the rave :rolleyes: great reviews, and the first (or near) DDR + RAID mobo available. A year ago +

But Im very happy with my KR7A now :D

[City_Idiot]

on know where comes the Abit Pimpage from Sp and Kj

[Humantuckshop]

Hey, you forgot about me City, I'm running a Abit KR7A-RAID now. So far it kicks ass, overclocking later. :mad: I got the board @ a very special price, so I couldn't turn it down.

I love teh Abit.

[City_Idiot]

well i have upgraded my ka266+ which rocked! 176fsb on crap mem at normal ram settings
got a xp333-r for a VERY good price, the lestest version aswell, will elt you know how well it goes