* new motherboard/CPU/memory
@ Pete
` Georgina
` Alex Snow
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Pete @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hi every one
I ordered a new mother board, CPU and memory Tuesday and recieved it
yesterday. It's an Abit mother board and the CPU is an AMD Duron 1.2 ghz
and I got 128 mb DDR sdram for it for $290 plus some change. I spent less
than I thought I would. I have been saving up for almost a year to do this
and finally! I'll probably have it up and running later on today. Whish me
luck!
Pete
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* Re: new motherboard/CPU/memory
new motherboard/CPU/memory Pete
@ ` Georgina
` Pete
` Alex Snow
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Georgina @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hi
I'd be very interested on how you get on with your new board, as my last
upgrade caused me a number of problems. So if you decide not to post your
comments on the list could you please send them to me privately? I'd like to
knowexactly which Abit board you've purchased. Could you give an overview
of its features?
While the I-Will KK266 Plus R is a good board, perhaps I should check Linux
compatability for my next board.
Gena
>
> Hi every one
> I ordered a new mother board, CPU and memory Tuesday and recieved it
>yesterday. It's an Abit mother board and the CPU is an AMD Duron 1.2 ghz
>and I got 128 mb DDR sdram for it for $290 plus some change. I spent less
>than I thought I would. I have been saving up for almost a year to do this
>and finally! I'll probably have it up and running later on today. Whish me
>luck!
> Pete
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Speakup mailing list
>Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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* Re: new motherboard/CPU/memory
new motherboard/CPU/memory Pete
` Georgina
@ ` Alex Snow
` Victor Tsaran
` Pete
1 sibling, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Alex Snow @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Yeah, tell me how it goes since I'm going to build a duron machine for a
friend and don't know what board to buy.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete" <persuric@ameritech.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 6:33 AM
Subject: new motherboard/CPU/memory
>
> Hi every one
> I ordered a new mother board, CPU and memory Tuesday and recieved it
> yesterday. It's an Abit mother board and the CPU is an AMD Duron 1.2 ghz
> and I got 128 mb DDR sdram for it for $290 plus some change. I spent less
> than I thought I would. I have been saving up for almost a year to do
this
> and finally! I'll probably have it up and running later on today. Whish me
> luck!
> Pete
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
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* Re: new motherboard/CPU/memory
` Alex Snow
@ ` Victor Tsaran
` Pete
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Victor Tsaran @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
I bought Microstar MS6380 and it worksgreat with AMD Athlon XP CPU and VIA
chip.
Vic
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@gmx.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: new motherboard/CPU/memory
> Yeah, tell me how it goes since I'm going to build a duron machine for a
> friend and don't know what board to buy.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pete" <persuric@ameritech.net>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 6:33 AM
> Subject: new motherboard/CPU/memory
>
>
> >
> > Hi every one
> > I ordered a new mother board, CPU and memory Tuesday and recieved it
> > yesterday. It's an Abit mother board and the CPU is an AMD Duron 1.2
ghz
> > and I got 128 mb DDR sdram for it for $290 plus some change. I spent
less
> > than I thought I would. I have been saving up for almost a year to do
> this
> > and finally! I'll probably have it up and running later on today. Whish
me
> > luck!
> > Pete
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
>
>
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* Re: new motherboard/CPU/memory
` Georgina
@ ` Pete
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Pete @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hi
I am sorry it took so long for me to get back to you! Among sound card
trouble and getting the new mother board running I had an upgrade project on
another computer. This mother board was a compromise. Short and sweet. It
has 1 floppy conecter, 4 33/66/100/133 ide channels (2 raid) and (2 non
raid), 2 ps2 ports, 6 usb ports, 2 serial ports, 1 parallel port, 6 pci
slots and 1agp slot. I got the best ide controller I could find on a mother
board. I would have liked an isa slot or 2 and usb 2.0 to be there. This
is one of the few mother boards whith the ata udma 133 support on board. It
was a deciding factor since I wanted it to support the new drives I got.
BTW, on the 10 gig and the 60 gig western digital hard drives the jumpers
are labeled as follows from right to left (when the power conecter is on the
right and the 40 pin connecter is on the left) CS is the first set of 2 pins
to the left of the power connecter, SL is the next set of 2 pins to the
left, then MA is next stil moving left. There are 2 more sets of pins to
the left after the MA set. the next set of two pins to the left of MA are
not labeled. the last set of pins to the left of the unlabeled set of pins
are labeled whith a number letter combination. I only mentioned this
because I recall some one was having trouble setting master setting on there
hard drive. Well, back to the new board. I don't know a lot about the
settings in bios etc yet Here is a spec sheet.
Pete
The model number is KR7A-133R
AMD Socket A ATX Based Mainboard
PC1600/PC2100 DDR DRAM
ATA 133 RAID 0,1,1/0
SoftMenuTMIII Technology
Specifications:
CPU
Support AMD Athlon XP 1500+ to 2000+ or future Socket A Processors based
on 200/266 MHz
(100MHz/133MHz Double Data Rate)
Support AMD Athlon 700MHz to 1.4GHz or future Socket A Processors based on
200/266 MHz
(100MHz/133MHz Double Data Rate)
Support AMD Duron 600MHz to 1.2 GHz or future Socket A Processors based on
200 MHZ
(100MHz Double Data Rate)
Chipset
VIA KT266A / VIA VT8233A
Supports Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133 IDE protocol
Supports Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface (ACPI)
Accelerated Graphics Port connector supports AGP 2X(3.3V)and 4X(1.5V) mode
(Sideband) device
Supports200/266 MHz (100MHz/133MHz Double Data Rate)
Memory Bus Settings
Ultra DMA 133/ RAID High Point HPT372 IDE Controller
Ultra DMA 133MB/sec data transfer rate
RAID 0 (striping mode for boosting performance)
RAID 1 (mirroring mode for data security)
RAID 0 + 1(striping and mirroring)
Memory
Four 184-pin DIMM sockets support PC1600/PC2100 DDR SDRAM module
Supports 6 banks up to 3GB DRAMs for unbuffered DDR/SDR modules
Supports 8 banks up to 4GB DRAMs for registered DDR/SDR modules
System BIOS
SoftMenuTM III Technology to set CPU parameters
Supports Plug-and-Play (PNP)
Supports Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI)
Supports Desktop Management Interface (DMI)
Write-Protect Anti-Virus function by AWARD BIOS
Multi I/O Functions
Floppy Port supports up to 2.88MB
Two Channels of Bus Master IDE Ports supporting up to four Ultra DMA
33/66/100/133
Two Channels of Bus Master IDE Ports supporting up to four Ultra DMA
33/66//100/133
(RAID 0/1/10)
One built-in Standard /EPP/ECP parallel port connector
Two built-in 16550 fast UART compatible serial port connectors
Built-in PS/2 Keyboard and PS/2 mouse port connectors
On board USB header for two extra USB channels
Miscellaneous
ATX form factor
1 AGP slot, 6 PCI slots
Hardware monitoring - Including Fan speed, Voltages, System environment
temperature
Built-in Wake on LAN header
Built-in Wake on Ring header
Built-in IrDA TX/RX header
USB 2.0 is not supported in the KG or KR series of motherboards.
ABIT Computer Corp
----- Original Message -----
From: "Georgina" <gena@gena-j.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: new motherboard/CPU/memory
> Hi
>
> I'd be very interested on how you get on with your new board, as my last
> upgrade caused me a number of problems. So if you decide not to post your
> comments on the list could you please send them to me privately? I'd like
to
> knowexactly which Abit board you've purchased. Could you give an overview
> of its features?
>
> While the I-Will KK266 Plus R is a good board, perhaps I should check
Linux
> compatability for my next board.
>
> Gena
>
>
>
> >
> > Hi every one
> > I ordered a new mother board, CPU and memory Tuesday and recieved it
> >yesterday. It's an Abit mother board and the CPU is an AMD Duron 1.2 ghz
> >and I got 128 mb DDR sdram for it for $290 plus some change. I spent
less
> >than I thought I would. I have been saving up for almost a year to do
this
> >and finally! I'll probably have it up and running later on today. Whish
me
> >luck!
> > Pete
> >
> >
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >Speakup mailing list
> >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
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* Re: new motherboard/CPU/memory
` Alex Snow
` Victor Tsaran
@ ` Pete
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Pete @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hi
Well, Setting up in bios was tricky. There are a lot of options, but the
two you first want to try are load failsafe settings or load optimised
settings. These two will get the CPU settings rite then you can go back and
ajust settings for other devices. I had a lot of trouble whith the sound
blaster live card installation. Finally ended up just installing drivers
only. The live ware software package would install and the computer would
reboot and boom!! Some thing bad happens and press a key to continue. The
screen goes black and it restarts in safe mode. YUCK! The more I use it
the more I'll know about it. So far so good. I posted another post about
what board it is and some comments.
Pete
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@gmx.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: new motherboard/CPU/memory
> Yeah, tell me how it goes since I'm going to build a duron machine for a
> friend and don't know what board to buy.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pete" <persuric@ameritech.net>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 6:33 AM
> Subject: new motherboard/CPU/memory
>
>
> >
> > Hi every one
> > I ordered a new mother board, CPU and memory Tuesday and recieved it
> > yesterday. It's an Abit mother board and the CPU is an AMD Duron 1.2
ghz
> > and I got 128 mb DDR sdram for it for $290 plus some change. I spent
less
> > than I thought I would. I have been saving up for almost a year to do
> this
> > and finally! I'll probably have it up and running later on today. Whish
me
> > luck!
> > Pete
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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