What leads do you get with the NF7-S ?

[Lexeus]

Hi,
still trying to decide what do to about my new system . I rang up scan tech support, and as i expected all they said was you can said the board back to be tested and if its ok it will cost you £20, or you can send it back for a full refund as i its within the 7 days until thursday.
So im concidering trading in the MSI board for an Abit NF7-S, as i cant really be sure that by getting some different RAM, this board will work ok, and im not risking another £20 pointlessly. I could even get a refund and buy the same board for less than the £20 in P&P.
What exactly do you get with the NF7-S ? I never had this question answered fully . I know you get one plain ATA133 ribbon lead, 1 FDD lead, what else, how many SATA leads, do you get a power adaptor for SATA, any IDE-SATA adaptors. Please list anything and everything, anyone ! as long as its the NF7-S
Im still trying to comapre it to the MSI bundle , that gives you 2 SATA leads, a power adapator, an extra IDE port on board, so no need to use an adaptor or use up a SATA port, that means you can have up to 7 drives ! 2 on each IDE channel, then one IDE + 2 SATa on the Promise SATA controller.
Also are their headers on the board for connecting exernal case earphone sockets ? i really want those, and how many 3 pin fan headers are there ?
Anyway please list the stuff, instead of just telling me to get the NF7-S as usual

thanks

[Byatt]

quoting from my nf7-s manual.

additional to the HD/floppy lead:

one usb2 cable with bracket (goes from usb headers on mobo to pci slots)

one firewire cable with bracket (goes from firewire headers to pci slots)

one s-ata cable, one serillel converter.

[Stoo]

Fairly similar to the rest of the nf2 boards, apart from the sata/pata adaptor..

[luke313]

Originally posted by Lexeus
...Anyway please list the stuff, instead of just telling me to get the NF7-S as usual ...

Sorry, but its the best advice out there

[Lexeus]

hmm, is there serillel adaptor for use to turn the serial cable into an IDE connection, or can it be used to connect an IDE ribbon cable to a SATA hard drive ?
Also, from that im guessing you dont get a 4 pin to SATA power converter?
Do you think scan would miss it ? anyone ever tried not sending everything back ? it work ? Because i have already registered my free virus subcription anyway

[Lexeus]

oh, something i forgot to ask. Were then anymore RAM problems with the original revision of the NF7-S ? Did the later revisions, along with the v2.0, fix RAM some RAM problems ? Or is just the MSI being a freak annoyance ?

Because after my 2 sticks of Corsair VS, i also tried a stick of 256 PC-2100 and that was still affected but hardly ever brought the beep errors. and after that i tried another stick, 'm-tec', which was the first stick which appeared to work without any errors.

[Tom]

there were problems with the early NF7-s but they have been fixed in later bios revisions, which does not seem to have happened with the MSI boards

[Austin]

The SATA-PATA converter allows you to plug a PATA HD in to the SATA connector on the mobo. The only real benefit to this is to alleviate the 2 PATA controllers and comes in useful for those with 3+ drives.

You get a SATA lead in the box but no SATA power lead. The Maxtor SATA HD's come with a regular 3pin IDE power connector as well as SATA power connector so you don't need the £3ish convertor anyway.

One thing you don't get in the box which suprised me in a high end mobo is a 2nd IDE lead, pretty awful if you ask me.

So basicly inside the box withthe mobo you get:

* ATA133 IDE lead
* 3.5" floppy lead
* CD with drivers and sw
* floppy disk for SATA usage
* manual
* USB2.0 bracket
* I/O shield (for the onboard connectors)
* IEEE1394a bracket
* SATA data lead
* PATA-SATA converter with instructions
* sticker for inside your case with the mobo layout, clear CMOS and speaker/LED pin layout.

[steve threlfall]

Originally posted by luke313
Sorry, but its the best advice out there

lol could there be a reason why som many of us are nf7 fanboys. You would think more peeps would notice

[Austin]

NF7-S v2.0 are great but the layout does leave a lot to be desired and it really pee's me off that an o/c'ed CPU only shows the ghz and not the XP rating even when you match a CPU's spec precisely. In many ways I found the Gigabyte 7VAX KT400 superior...