eric w wrote:
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:42:11 UTC, "William L. Hartzell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:My requirements was support of IR, and six PCI slots and no on-board stuff that did not have OS/2 drivers, and supported the pr2000 Athlon xp chip. This chip uses 266 DDR memory. Wants and like to have included ECC, and USB 2.0. Alas, my budget did not support any main board with ECC that also met my requirements, they all were server boards and over $300US. I found six boards that fit. Two were out of production and were pure unobtainium. Two were older boards and two were recent boards. One of these only supported AGP 4X-8X, which meant purchase of a new video card. Of the remaining three, one did not support AGP 4X and the other two supported both. I chose the Abit KX7-333 board. I figured that since it supported the faster memory, it would be stable at the slower clock rate. The two boards are only twenty $ different in price with the Abit being higher. Hope that I did not screw up. Alas, I find that the power supply that it needs is out of stock at Fry's. Well, we will keep on trucking... BTW, the main board that is currently installed has just lost floppy controller. Got to get that new one installed ASAP.
Sir:eric w wrote:Yes, you make perfect sense. In fact my own experience was a choking off of the data stream, when my integrity limit was surpassed, yielding very low throughput until I manually set the NIC away from autodetect. Bill's CRC problem is a VERY intriguing one.I suspect it is buffer pollution due to bad keyboard controller chip/circuit/south bridge. Ordering new main board later today.
eric...
I see. Given the almost insignificant price differential between highest quality & garbage mbos (when factored out over my 4 year average machine life), I have always been very careful to pick good circuitry that supports
ECC ram. In 1998 i chose an ASUS P2L97S & have been overclocking it since day one.
As I am overdue for a new main machine, I wonder what are considered the really good mbo brands these days.
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Bill
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