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Old January 4th 05, 08:05 PM
PAPutzback
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Default Looking for a good Cheap socket A MB for a fileserver.

I have 3 80 gig drives, 256 meg of 2700 ram, 2400 proc, tower case and
adaptec ide raid card. Currently I have a PC Chips MB, what a piece of
$#it. I am not sure if it is over heating or what.

If it is used to on the internet it locks up randomly. Ocassionaly it
shuts off and it has to cool down before it will restart. Pressing the
power button doesn't even cause a beep until it is off for a while.

Plugging a USB Logitech game pad in it or I think anything USB give it
issues.

So I want to dump the MB for a 400 FSB motherboard so I can throw a
3200 in there in a year or two when you can get them for a few dollars.

I just want to use it for file storage and light tasks. But I need
something a little more stable and cheap.

Currently I run 20 80 gig drives in a raid 0 but I think I'll run
everything seperate.

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Old January 4th 05, 11:55 PM
Dave C.
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"PAPutzback" wrote in message
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I have 3 80 gig drives, 256 meg of 2700 ram, 2400 proc, tower case and
adaptec ide raid card. Currently I have a PC Chips MB, what a piece of
$#it. I am not sure if it is over heating or what.

If it is used to on the internet it locks up randomly. Ocassionaly it
shuts off and it has to cool down before it will restart. Pressing the
power button doesn't even cause a beep until it is off for a while.

Plugging a USB Logitech game pad in it or I think anything USB give it
issues.


That sounds like a bad power supply to me. I don't blame you for wanting to
dump the PC Chips board, but I would be surprised if that cures the problem
you are writing about. -Dave


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Old January 5th 05, 06:41 AM
CW
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"PAPutzback" wrote in message
oups.com...
I have 3 80 gig drives, 256 meg of 2700 ram, 2400 proc, tower case and
adaptec ide raid card. Currently I have a PC Chips MB, what a piece of
$#it. I am not sure if it is over heating or what.

If it is used to on the internet it locks up randomly. Ocassionaly it
shuts off and it has to cool down before it will restart. Pressing the
power button doesn't even cause a beep until it is off for a while.

Plugging a USB Logitech game pad in it or I think anything USB give it
issues.

So I want to dump the MB for a 400 FSB motherboard so I can throw a
3200 in there in a year or two when you can get them for a few dollars.

I just want to use it for file storage and light tasks. But I need
something a little more stable and cheap.

Currently I run 20 80 gig drives in a raid 0 but I think I'll run
everything seperate.


Don't know if you would be interested, but I have an SY-K7VME that is brand
spankin' new that I would let go for $35 plus shipping. It has never been
used, has the cd, floppy cbl, 80-conductor EIDE cbl, etc. I don't think it
supports 400 FSB though. Here's some info:
http://www.soyogroup.com/products/proddesc.php?id=281

CW


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Old January 18th 05, 05:17 PM
PAPutzback
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Thanks for the offer. But i think I am going to find a full size board
with more pci slots. I want to build a Media Center PC. So I know I
will need one slot for a dual NTSC tuner, 1 for the HDTV tuner and 1
for a decent audio card. Depending on the boards avaialable IDE
conenctions I might need another pci slot for my raid card.

 




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