kony wrote:
>
> On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:09:45 -0700, Robert Heiling
> <robheil@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> >> Here's one for $40, there may be others if you look around
> >> the 'net.
> >> http://www.targetpcinc.com/Details.a...mID=2485&Res=2
> >>
> >> I"m not claiming it's a great board, but rather I have no
> >> experience with it and generally avoid Chaintech. Even so,
> >> $40 less with option to return it if it doesn't work right
> >> seems a worthwhile risk.
> >
> >and yet another question! As mentioned in another post,
> >I ordered the Chaintech board above that you found at
> >TargetPC, it has arrived, and I've got everything apart and
> >am ready to drop the cpu & memory into the new board
> >and install it. However, before I do .....
> >
> >The new board is the CT-7AIA and has a KT133 (note: not a
> >KT133A) chipset and Socket A. Its included manual says:
> >"Supports AMD Socket A processors up to 950MHz". My cpu
> >is 1000Mhz (1GHz and I read on another review site of a
> >different board that: "As with any other Socket A based board,
> >the issue of CPU multiplier selection is locked
> >after by the CPU itself with an internally locked multiplier.").
> >I've been so used to seeing the websites give Socket A claims
> > of up to 1.2GHz & 1.5GHz that I didn't realize that the
> >TargetPC site didn't mention cpu speed at all. In fact, my
> > old board, which is also KT133 claims support for 500MHz
> >to 1GHz. Is it possibly the case that 950MHz was the fastest
> > Athlon out at the time they wrote that manual and that
> >it will actually support 1GHz? or am I in trouble?
>
> Yes that is possible.
> Install the CPU, video and memory for the time being.
> When it posts, note what the board reports for CPU.
The mb with CPU & memory were installed and then the AGP video. Floppy
and CD-ROM drives connected.
Booting shows (abbreviated):
Award Modular Bios v6.00PG 06/21/2002
Main Processor: AMD Athlon 1333MHz (s/b 1000Mhz)
Memory Testing: 524288K (no problems)
Floppy Disks(s) Fail (40) (note: connections all ok)
Press F1 to continue, DEL to enter Setup
06/21/2002-8363-686-IA6LMC5CC-00
<pause> F1 <cr>
Verifying DMI Pool Data
Then it boots into my Knoppix v3.4 CD and shows the splash screen.
Attempted continuation fails in the Linux loading process (blanked
screen and no CD activity), but Memtest on that same CD gives:
Memtest-86 v3.0
AMD Athlon 1335MHz
L1 cache 128K 8193MB/s
L2 cache 256K 2510MB/s
Memory 512M 324 MB/s
Chipset vt8363
etc
> If necessary (and possible) adjust bios settings or onboard
> jumpers to accomodate your CPU- keeping in mind that KT133
> (non-"A") does not support 133FSB (I dont recall the
> particularly of your system at this time and I'd deleted the
> original post).
Not sure what to do there. What was kept from the old system was Athlon
1GHz CPU and 512MB PC-133 memory and ATI-Radeon AGP card + case & power
supply from the old PC Chips M805LR mATX system.
> Install floppy drive and run memtest86 to confirm memory
> stability. Memtest86 will display the CPU frequency too
> even if the BIOS POST screen misidentifies the CPU. Trust
> memtest86's report over the BIOS report, BUT also you can
> later run a windows CPU ID tool to confirm operational
> frequency. For example, "WCPUID" would tell you, as would
> "CPU-Z", http://www.cpuid.org/download/cpu-z-129.zip
It's all quite flaky. Instead of going into Memtest it sometimes gives
"unexpected interrupt - halting". In one case, Memtest was going well
and then started to fail. In most every other case. it has been failing
on every memory address. I'm holding off on trying another 128MB stick,
which is probably good, at the moment as the fault may not be with
memory
itself?
Bob