Hi, I picked up your input to the motherboards thread and wondered how you got everything to work using your K7S5A board. I haven't got the plug and lead for the onboard video and bought an nvidia Geforce2 mx 200 card. this works but above 800x600 the display is bigger than the screen area. which is not what I wanted. tThe NIC is seen but I cannot get it configured and bought a PCI card. I am activelly trying to get this to work properly at present with a thread on this newsgroup and an email to Mandrake support. Any suggestions would be appreciated. tia norm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 10 Feb 2002, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > > The recent discussions of motherboards has raised a question with me. > > There is always lots of chat about the mid to upper end mobos, but what > > about the lower end? > > > > If I were to put together a budget box, that could still run Linux, and > > be useable, what mobos would you experts recommend? > > This is really just a curiosity question. Not everyone can afford to > > build a box based on the Soyo Dragon+, they may want something resulting > > in a box half that price. > > > > So drag out your calculators, and lets see what can be built on budget > > hardware (must be current stuff. No 486 boxes). > > > I just put together a machine around the ECS K7S5A motherboard and > Athlon XP1400 (~ 1050 MhZ). Other specs include: Matrox Millenium 4MB, > 512M SDRAM (it supports DDR too), Initio SCSI card, 30G 7200 RPM Maxtor > IDE, two extra fans, decent (not the best) case. Everything set me back > ~ 380 $US. 17" monitor (used) was $80 at a local computer fair. It's > very fast. If you're more graphics oriented a generic NVidia card will > set you back another $50 or so. The Millenium works great for regular X > though and the framebuffer console accelerates well. > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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