Hello all,
I've been saddled with the unenviable task of upgrading a circa-1996
J656VXD main board. This has an Intel VX chipset and is apparently
manufactured by Jetway. Since my cousin (the hapless victim) just wants to
run Win98 office apps and stuff on her P133, I decided to up the RAM and
put in a bigger hard drive (it came with a 110MB Quantum, since the
machine was upgraded originally from a 386.. aieeehh)
For the upgrade budget (c.a. 6K) I got a 8.4GB Fujitsu UDMA66 drive (P
4200, made in RP thats why its so cheap.. Ive heard nothing good about
Fujitsu drives but its not mine and besides, a warranty is a warranty).
I also got 64MB of RAM (2x32MB PC100 DIMMs). The main board has 2 DIMM
slots and besides, the VX chipset supports SDRAM, right? the problem now
is the main board only sees 8MB on each DIMM (1/4th of its capacity). They
are single-sided DIMMs BTW. This really sucks. 16MB is a long way from
64MB and no one is gonna be running Win98 happily on 16MB, while a 64MB
P133 is, I believe, still a viable office apps box.
There are no more BIOS upgrades to be had for this ancient main board for
love or money. Ive looked. But some old web pages claim that a BIOS
upgrade will cure this issue.. anyone got some old BIOS images lying
around or something? or any other ideas? and dont tell me to scrap the
main board.. Ive already thought of that. :)
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