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Decent motherboard? edit: motherboard or processor problems? I dunno!

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elvis:

--- Quote from: Peale on March 30, 2005, 10:25:19 am ---How's this for a replacement board?  I should have ordered yesterday.  They had my exact motherboad in the refurb section for $39.  It's gone today.

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In my experience, a VIA board is a VIA board is a VIA board.  Any old KT400 will perform much the same, and most likely not even require an OS rebuild if you use your old hard disk and software install.

Certainly, ASUS are a little higher on the scale of reliability, but so are ABit, LeadTek, and even Jetway these days.

Regarding your current CPU problem: it could well be memory too.  Your FSB dictates your clockspeed, and your FSB is just as easily limited by the system memory in VIA boards as it is the CPU.  I'd be running both Memtest86 and Memtest86+ overnight on the system to make sure the RAM is fine, or try some different RAM if you've got some lying around.

SirPeale:
Running MemTest certainly is a good idea.  I'm going to be doing a lot more testing as I go on.

I hope there's a CD bootable version of MemTest, I don't trust my floppy drive now.

SirPeale:
Well, I just tried my original motherboard with a Duron 750 I had kicking around.  Came right up.  Hooked up the hard drives, booted just fine.

I dunno how the processor could have boogled, but it seems I've found my culprit.

The good news is that assuming I can get everything running, I've got a new board for my cab.  I can safely replace the 450MHz K6/2 I've got now.

JoyMonkey:
Those boards would work nicely in a cab, since you can hide all the boot screens with a bitmap.

spiffyshoes:
You might look and see if a pin is bent on the processor.  That happened to me once.

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