BigBlue66
09-23-2001, 01:39 PM
Hey Gang,
This post is not so much a question as it is just an update of my troubles with the Micronics C200 motherboard that I had installed in the wife's newly built machine. (See Urgent-Big Blue's in Trouble or Big Blue's Troubles-Part 2 in this section)
Oivay! Glad the motherboard was a freeby to begin with, or I would have been totally disgusted.
Anyway, here's what happened: I tried to install an AGP video card, thinking that the system could benefit from all the wonderful things inherent in AGP devices. Don't rightly know what happened, except that most likely the board couldn't handle the particular AGP device. All of a sudden, the CPU fan header crapped out and my modem would successfully dial up to my ISP, but I couldn't view webpages. I am not quite sure if these two problems are related to the unsuccessful attempt with the AGP vid card, or if they are just a coincidence.
OK, so considering that I was having other problems with the board anyway, such as two bad DIMM slots and the fact that I couldn't get it to run at it's rated FSB speed of 100Mhz, I decided to chuck it on the shelf and found a new motherboard at CSO for $69.
I chose to try to find a Socket 7 board simply because I have two AMD K6-2 processors, a 450Mhz and a 500Mhz. Why waste them if I can help it?
The board I got has been rock solid stable from day one and has been running at it's true rated FSB of 100Mhz. The board unfortunately has integrated video and sound, of which I have disabled the video but am currently using the onboard sound. It seems to be adequate for what the wife does on her machine, such as desktop publishing mostly and some games, but nothing heavy duty. Here's the specs:
MiTAC 5114VU with the VIA VT8501 MVP4 at 100Mhz
512Kb L2 Pipeline Burst Write-back cache
Award 6.00PG BIOS dated 9/03/2000
AMD K6-2 3D (Chomper) 500Mhz
320mb SDRAM (256mb PC-133 + 64mb PC-100)
Video-88 PCI-32Plus, Nvidia RIVA TNT2-64
View Sonic 17" E771-4 (I traded her Zeus Components monitor with one I had at work)
ESS Allegro PCI Audio Onboard
Trident Blade 3D/MVP4 AGP 8mb (Disabled)
The video seemed to be adequate also, but I had the video card lying around so thought I would use it for better graphics with her desktop publishing software and what few games she has. I will probably save the SoundBlaster 16 PCI that I recently purchased for the next system. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
Wish there was a way to have more than one emoticon on the header, because I am sad but happy at the same time.
I will use this board until such time as either it dies or my K6-2 processors die or until the wife wants to get into some heavy gaming, then it will be time for a new late-model AMD based motherboard.
Cheers,
Big Blue 66
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"Right turn Clyde!"
This post is not so much a question as it is just an update of my troubles with the Micronics C200 motherboard that I had installed in the wife's newly built machine. (See Urgent-Big Blue's in Trouble or Big Blue's Troubles-Part 2 in this section)
Oivay! Glad the motherboard was a freeby to begin with, or I would have been totally disgusted.
Anyway, here's what happened: I tried to install an AGP video card, thinking that the system could benefit from all the wonderful things inherent in AGP devices. Don't rightly know what happened, except that most likely the board couldn't handle the particular AGP device. All of a sudden, the CPU fan header crapped out and my modem would successfully dial up to my ISP, but I couldn't view webpages. I am not quite sure if these two problems are related to the unsuccessful attempt with the AGP vid card, or if they are just a coincidence.
OK, so considering that I was having other problems with the board anyway, such as two bad DIMM slots and the fact that I couldn't get it to run at it's rated FSB speed of 100Mhz, I decided to chuck it on the shelf and found a new motherboard at CSO for $69.
I chose to try to find a Socket 7 board simply because I have two AMD K6-2 processors, a 450Mhz and a 500Mhz. Why waste them if I can help it?
The board I got has been rock solid stable from day one and has been running at it's true rated FSB of 100Mhz. The board unfortunately has integrated video and sound, of which I have disabled the video but am currently using the onboard sound. It seems to be adequate for what the wife does on her machine, such as desktop publishing mostly and some games, but nothing heavy duty. Here's the specs:
MiTAC 5114VU with the VIA VT8501 MVP4 at 100Mhz
512Kb L2 Pipeline Burst Write-back cache
Award 6.00PG BIOS dated 9/03/2000
AMD K6-2 3D (Chomper) 500Mhz
320mb SDRAM (256mb PC-133 + 64mb PC-100)
Video-88 PCI-32Plus, Nvidia RIVA TNT2-64
View Sonic 17" E771-4 (I traded her Zeus Components monitor with one I had at work)
ESS Allegro PCI Audio Onboard
Trident Blade 3D/MVP4 AGP 8mb (Disabled)
The video seemed to be adequate also, but I had the video card lying around so thought I would use it for better graphics with her desktop publishing software and what few games she has. I will probably save the SoundBlaster 16 PCI that I recently purchased for the next system. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
Wish there was a way to have more than one emoticon on the header, because I am sad but happy at the same time.
I will use this board until such time as either it dies or my K6-2 processors die or until the wife wants to get into some heavy gaming, then it will be time for a new late-model AMD based motherboard.
Cheers,
Big Blue 66
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"Right turn Clyde!"