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Motherboard died need replacement help.
My Abit KX7-333R motherboard (1.4Ghz processor 3 sticks of PC2100 RAM) just
died and I want a replacement of similar spec. that I can just swap components from the old to new, anyone any recommendations? Thanks, ChrisR. |
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On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:40:28 GMT, "ChrisR"
wrote: My Abit KX7-333R motherboard (1.4Ghz processor 3 sticks of PC2100 RAM) just died and I want a replacement of similar spec. that I can just swap components from the old to new, anyone any recommendations? Thanks, ChrisR. Sometimes boards are more picky about memory when there's 3 modules, but it's kinda hard to guess/speculate about what particular boards will accept this memory you already have. Generally speaking, you don't need another Via KT333 chipset based board. I presume the "R" means RAID though, so if you need a PATA RAID controller onboard that will greatly limit your choices, especially since it appears to be a Highpoint controller which is less common than the Promise based controllers. A Promise controller would give you same functionality for a RAID 0 or 1 and single-drive spans but could not pick up, detect existing arrays and use them. If all else fails you might buy a separate PCI card with the same Highpoint chip on it. Otherwise you could just grab any nForce2 motherboard and use it, as they certainly support 1.4GHz CPU and PC2100, because the bus speed will decrease for that speed of CPU. Or, it appears to be here for $33, http://www.cmishop.com/store/ShowDet...egorySubID=125 |
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On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:40:28 GMT, "ChrisR"
wrote: My Abit KX7-333R motherboard (1.4Ghz processor 3 sticks of PC2100 RAM) just died and I want a replacement of similar spec. that I can just swap components from the old to new, anyone any recommendations? Thanks, ChrisR. Ive got that board. Im pretty sure it has a 3 yr warranty. Maybe yours is still covered by Abit. I would get a nforce2 board if you have to replace it - might as well but youll have a little more issues when you try to boot up as youll have to try to boot up in safemode and then uninstall the old drivers and reinstall the new nforce drivers. Its better to do another clean install but usually it works though sometimes Ive had big problems when I try to move a preinstalled WIN XP on a HD to another different MB system. |
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Thanks for the replies.
The RAID side is not a real problem I don't use it as a RAID array I just use the ports to give me 4 IDE ports, the main thing that was worrying me was RAM compatibility, I also want to steer away from boards with built in graphics sound etc., as in the past I've found them a pain to disable when putting in an upgrade card. I will defiantly checkout the 3yr warranty though. Thanks again, ChrisR. " wrote in message ... On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:40:28 GMT, "ChrisR" wrote: My Abit KX7-333R motherboard (1.4Ghz processor 3 sticks of PC2100 RAM) just died and I want a replacement of similar spec. that I can just swap components from the old to new, anyone any recommendations? Thanks, ChrisR. Ive got that board. Im pretty sure it has a 3 yr warranty. Maybe yours is still covered by Abit. I would get a nforce2 board if you have to replace it - might as well but youll have a little more issues when you try to boot up as youll have to try to boot up in safemode and then uninstall the old drivers and reinstall the new nforce drivers. Its better to do another clean install but usually it works though sometimes Ive had big problems when I try to move a preinstalled WIN XP on a HD to another different MB system. |
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:21:59 GMT, "ChrisR"
wrote: Thanks for the replies. The RAID side is not a real problem I don't use it as a RAID array I just use the ports to give me 4 IDE ports, the main thing that was worrying me was RAM compatibility, I also want to steer away from boards with built in graphics sound etc., as in the past I've found them a pain to disable when putting in an upgrade card. I will defiantly checkout the 3yr warranty though. Thanks again, ChrisR. Im using it for a second PC my old Abit board. Abit is one of the easiest firms or they used to be when I dealt with them --- for RMAs. Even if its out of warranty of missing the serial number they will fix it for a fee that wasnt that bad last time I checked though that may have changed. Heres what happened with mine and I dont remember checking it for bad caps at the time. It completely melted down. Went wacko from 100% stable. I blamed it on lots of other things at first and bought lots of extra parts testing it. Then I exchanged it under RMA and it worked fine or so I thought. There was a intermittent freezing problem with the RAID controller. Tried everything and then gave up after months of trying different drivers etc. Thought it was fixed by moving to the regular controller (non high point) but recently when I was using waiting for my AMD 64 system parts , it started freezing intermittently on the regular controller ---- sometimes within minutes, 1 hour , several hours. Sometimes after messing with it it would do it after 24 hours making me thing I fixed it. Nforce2 problems --- those were from the early days. I havent had any problems with the nforce boards Ive had in the last year or so. The main problems with the built-in video was that they were advertised as regular nforce 2 boards capable of hitting FSB 200/400. The problem was that most were unstable at the top setting if you used inboard video , you have to use a separate card if you do. Also all the boards Ive used with it --- I only get nforce2 with 400mx nvidia graphics built in. They worked great except for the bad caps problem with Leadtek etc. The one I had problems with video was the cheaper unichrome S3 graphics cheapo board that came with an emachines. The drivers would conflict with an add on TV tuner card and it would go nuts. |
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