Steve, I have had the same experiences with the 1.2G Birds on the Epox boards and the only fix I have found is to CUT the required bridges to get a POST at a reasonable multiplier. A Dremel tool with the smallest carbide (or diamond) burr is the best way I have found to cut them. Takes a...
MSI is no longer manufacturing the Pro2 board. Actually the Pro2A is a revision of the Pro2 (and it a revision of the original Pro) since all the boards share a common model # (6330). Even if MSI did revert back to the Pro2 boards they would be the Pro2A Configuration less the 686B SB and...
What a bargain huh. The Drivers will come on a floppy that is usually marked as Asound audio drivers but actually has the Diamond drivers on there. For trouble free use go to Radio shack and pick up some RJ11 Low Pass filters for ALL your phones that share the line you will use for the PNA...
OK ... Before I get accused of MSI Bashing .. This is just my opinion based one integrating several hundred VIA KT133 boards (Abit, Epox and MSI) but SOME of the problems are specific to the 686B South Bridge and SOME of the problems are VIA 4 in 1 driver related BUT Some of the problems are...
I've done this for several small offices using the 1Mbs Diamond cards and Win98SE ICS. The transfer rate even for the 1Mbs PNA is perfectly fine for sharing a DSL (1.5 Mbs) connection. Even with as many as 4 systems using the PNA they still get downloads in the 80-100KBs range using napster...
Divine: Look at any SCSI or PCI ATA66/100 Card (Promise cards ect.) OR any card based RAID Controller to see Hard Drives that plug into the PCI. IDE Rates are tied to the PCI Bus so it's entirely possible that the HD is part of his problem !!!
I Agree that most newer chipsets including the...
For a Gaming/MP3 system with a dual boot OS (98SE/2K) and a 40/45 Gig HD I use this:
3.23G C: Win98SE
6.42G D: Win 2K Pro
8.42G E: Games/Misc. (I name this partition Storage)
20.1G F: MP3's
If 98SE (or ME) is your only OS and you run Office/Works (or any "Program FIles" based...
Most of the Super Orb's I have used have had the "Bubblegum" style thermal pad. It works OK but for optimum transfer scrape it off (hard to do BTW) and use Arctic Silver. The bubblegum pad is about as good as Ceramic based coumpounds like Radio Shack but nowhere near the quality of...
What does the BIOS Read for those voltages? MM is not as compatible with VIA chipset as it should be at times. To be SURE ... Install VIA Hardware Monitor and compare readings. Believe BIOS First and VIA Second, Motherboard Monitor 3rd and Sandra last. (Sandra's readings are almost always...
I've never bought a 7237 from MWave (I buy all my Enlight direct thru Ingram) but I can't imagine them not using the Enlight PS (the 250W which is AMD Approved up to 800). 2 Years ago Enlight had a batch of bad Power Supplies and I bet MWave was substituting at that time to avoid RMA's. I...
I've had all the problems with the Pro2A boards and I've found that on SOME of them with the green line, you can work around by disabling 4X AGP in BIOS and re-installing the 4 in 1 AGP driver in Standard mode rather than Turbo. (Nvidia cards) I've found workarounds for most of the other...
H8Tank: Whasup Bro?? Hows the AArdvark? YES the fan on the Alpha is Pulling air THRU the heatsink and blowing/exhausting out the top and into the case exhaust fan. Alphas are designed to work this way. Thats part of the purpose for that nifty little shroud the Alphas have. All other...
Ark (you slimy womp rat you) ... Gotta luv us hillbillys. Do a search in the FS/FT forum for bonkers325. He sells gauranteed PIII 700's. I've bought ALOT from him. I think Steve (Compuwiz1) is still selling PIII's as well but he's mainly into AMD at the moment I believe. IMHO the BX is...
Mike, Stable is kind of a time relative concept. The Orb hit 44C about 2 minutes into a UT Demo with Prime95 running. Yes it was stable at that point but I don't think it would have been for very much longer. It hit 40C just at POST so I knew it was marginal at that level. I have a Duron...
ratkil: I live in Fenton. GF lives in U-City. We hang at the Grind, Oz, or Mississippi Nights. Also alot of the little bars in Soulard. I just did an office network upgrade for my GF's Employer. You may know the company. PT's in Sauget??
Finding a good paying IT job in St Louis is like...
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