Post #42,823
6/18/02 7:40:42 PM
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Sigh
My windows computer just ate itself.
I flashing the BIOS and it froze 1 step short of finishing the write. I let it sit for half an hour and then crossed my fingers and reset the power.
No luck. It won't even try to boot now.
Oh well, the DFI AK74-EC I had before was nothing but trouble. It never did work quite right no matter what BIOS revision I loaded or which VIA drivers I loaded.
Anybody recommend a good motherboard for a 1.1 Ghz Athlon?
Jay
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Post #42,831
6/18/02 8:13:44 PM
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I'm very happy with the Soyo Dragon+
Built-in ethernet and sound. Works fine with a 1.6GHz AthlonXP.
$129 at [link|http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?submit=manufactory&catalog=22&manufactory=1454&DEPA=1|newegg.com].
If you don't have DDR, I have had good luck with an ABIT KT7A (non-RAID). It's $67 at newegg.
Good luck.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #42,844
6/18/02 10:35:44 PM
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Re: I'm very happy with the Soyo Dragon+
I have 256 MB of 100 Mhz SDRAM, but I might go ahead and replace that while I'm at it. I think I can stick that memory in my old P3, so it shouldn't go to waste.
I'm thinking about grabbing one of the new boards based on the VIA KT333 chipset. Buy a top notch board with 512 MB or 1 GB of Ram and recycle the rest of my componets. I've got top notch sound and video cards and the rest of the components are good enough. Go ahead and use the 1.1 Ghz Athlon until I need a speed upgrade and then jump on whatever is resonable then.
Right now I'm leaning towards the Gigabyte GA-7VRXP, I've had good experience with Gigabyte, the GA-7VRXP looks to be very stable and the Soyo SY-KT333 is a good $50 dollars more expensive because of all the extras Soya threw in the package. Have to see what the real price difference is at the selling point.
Jay
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Post #42,834
6/18/02 8:35:15 PM
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Asus A7V266 (vanilla flavor) works for me.
That's with a socket not slot.
Alex
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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Post #42,835
6/18/02 8:44:13 PM
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Asus A7V*
I currently have an A7V, and an A7V-133, both running Athlon 1.4GH... AWESOME...
I hear the A7V-266 need to be Flashed to 1009 before it is stable though...
Ain't that right Static??
GL!
greg, curley95@attbi.com -- REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!
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Post #42,849
6/19/02 1:42:57 AM
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That was only part of the problem.
Flashing the BIOS *helped*, but getting *all* the jumpers right was the clincher.
That said, a new A7V266 should know about that old an processor. Until I flashed mine, it didn't recognize my Athlon 1800XP.
Wade.
"Ah. One of the difficult questions."
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Post #42,883
6/19/02 10:33:07 AM
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A good thing about Asus is their support for
their mobos and BIOS upgrades even for boards no longer marketed.
Thanks for mentioning your need to upgrade BIOS to use the Athlon XP. That may be "in the cards" for me.
Alex
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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Post #42,981
6/20/02 7:34:04 AM
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How I noticed:
The BIOS listed an extra two voltage options for the CPU after I flashed it.
At least it wasn't as bad as my P2B-L: it came with 1002 which came out before the Celeron did. Wouldn't boot because it didn't know the processor. I had to go back to where I bought it from to get them to flash it up (with a PII :-). And then when I added a PIII 500, I had to flash it again so it would (again) recognise the processor.
Wade.
"Ah. One of the difficult questions."
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Post #43,161
6/21/02 8:49:35 PM
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The old rule - "If it's not broke, don't fix it!" apparently
does not apply to motherboards when you are upgrading CPUs..:)
Alex
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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Post #43,164
6/21/02 9:26:01 PM
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But RTFM or (more correctly) RTBW does. :-)
"Ah. One of the difficult questions."
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Post #43,381
6/25/02 2:27:49 AM
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But it does, it does...
...remember that it was, indeed, BROKE!
InThane - Now running Ashton rev 2.0
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