Everyone seems to have probs

[Scout255]

on this board, you cannot disable udma/66
you can disable the ata/33 ports tho

[Holerith]

KvHagedorn:

Basically yoou are right. People choose the processor first and then look for a motherboard.

However, and here I can only speak for myself, if I wanted an Athlon and the only companies making MB's for them were what I considered "second string" boards (not bad quality just not those I considered top makers) then I might think twice before I went that route.

A blazingly fast processor is no good if it isn't on a first rate MB and teh current crop of Athlon boards aren't close to first rate.

For myself, I want to see Athlon boards from Asus and Tyan especially.

Ah well, I want SMP in my next machine anyway and that lets AMD's CPU's out of the running anyway, at elast at the moment.


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Dean
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PDP-11, Dec-writer & ZD-11 Terminal Unit, RSTS-OS

[KvHagedorn]

Yep, I agree. The Athlon and its bus are particularly well suited to SMP work. I myself got a Tyan Thunderbolt board and might go to a second processor when Win2k comes out. Too bad the bus structure isn't as nice as the Athlon's. Everything else about the board is absolutely first-rate though.

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Kind Regards,

KvH

[Pertti]

Maybe people who are new to computers are choosing the prosessor first, but anyone with some knowledge understands that the motherboard is the backbone (ie. THE most important component).

When you have a good motherboard and a good graphics adapter, you have what it takes to build a stable and compatible one.

Pertti

[MM]

Bingo Pertti! That's why we see all these crappy cheap systems with P3s inside. I'd rather have the most expensive mobo with P2-450 than the most generic mobo with P3-550.

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P2c-300a/450, 192MB PC125 SDRAM, Quantum Fireball Plus KA 18.2GB 7200rpm, Panasonic 7502B x4/x8 Ultra SCSI CD-R, Tekram DC-390U2W Ultra2Wide SCSI controller, Diamond MX300 (Vortex2), Creative Labs AWE64 Gold Sound Blaster, A-Trend Voodoo II 12MB, Matrox Millennium G400Max, 19" Hitachi SuperScan 752 and some other fancy stuff

[Perception]

woohooo 2 pages.
Btw how do you overclock the hard drive.
Is there a difference between 112x4=448 and 100x4.5 besides the 2mhz? ok thanks.

[KvHagedorn]

Pertti, I totally agree. I did pick my motherboard first, but most people don't. (shhh.. I'm trying to get those wusses to reconsider and MAKE an Athlon board!)(As if they'd listen when they probably get threatening phone calls from Intel on a regular basis)

By the way, Intel.. Restraint of Trade is a Federal Offense

Wow, if only my board had that bus!

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Kind Regards,

KvH

[Alfie]

scout
you have irq 10 so jammed up no wonder you have a conflict.It seems a little ridiculous,you would damn the g400,without checking out your own configuration.As you have a ps2 mouse and I assume you are not using your serial port you have irq 3&4 open,also there is no mention of irq 9,check it out!Try,as previously mentioned,to get your g400 on irq 10 by itself,along with pci steering.Try to move your other card to irq 9.(That is once you find it)Juggle stuff around,until it's right.
Try to isolate your usb,so it too has its own irq,that is if you ever plan to use it if not disable in profile and you have yet another irq to play with.In windows, there is hardware profiles. You can actually create different hardware setups,see help for more information.Get these things accomplished,then get back to us!

[Scout255]

uh
its on its own irq 10 now...
absoltely nothing else is their....
and i still get the same thing....
now their are no devices shareing an irq....
and usb is disabled in bios, yet windows still gives it an irq....
and i still am at where i was befor
random bsod's
random freezeing
random d3d failiers
slow d3d performace
expendables crashing
no opengl
busmastering unable to get used
oh... the list goes on... and on... and on...

[This message has been edited by Scout255 (edited 09-07-1999).]

[Perception]

well thanks for answering my questions =/ anyhow u know the chart where it shows my irqs, well it only flashes by its too fast how can i pause it

[Kruzin]

With the "Pause" key on your keyboard

Timing is everything though....I usually have to boot a couple times before I can get the screen paused in just the right spot

[Jorden]

My problems are over for the moment
Back to the G200, for the moment I install the G400 (even without PD) Windows crashes and locks up, or refuses to load totally...

AM RMA-ing it this afternoon... I think something is fried

Jorden.