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jpmkm said:Which motherboard are you talking about? The latest BIOS on the ECS site for the nforce3-a is 1.0f.
The Other said:everyone that had problems did you clean out all the old drivers and registrys.
I didn't even have to reformat or anything except reactivate my XP pro...
swapping out the mobos was a breeze for me, actually too easy, I had more trouble changing out a Chaintech 7njs to 7njs ultra, than this...
Talonz said:I installed the latest (5.11) from nvidia's site and everything works fine for me. Make sure not to install the IDE driver or the special 10/100 drivers that include the nvidia firewall.
I wonder if I should downgrade my drivers though, whenever I overclock past 2.4 all my BSODs are on nv4_mini.dll or a similar nvidia dll
Fenris_Ulf said:I'm running a Raid 0 setup on mine as the primary HDD. I loaded the two NVIDIA drivers at OS setup (downloaded to floppy first) and everything was OK except I couldn't load the 5.11 LAN drivers. Had to use 5.10, but works just fine.
hahahha YESSS being patient payed off this time.brycejones said:Its back.........3100+ & NF3 MB at Outpost
TheMagicalJew said:What temp monitor program did you guys get working with this?
silentnswift said:hahahha YESSS being patient payed off this time.
mesostinky said:Can someone tell me about RAID on this board? The documentation just sucks. I'm building this weekend hopefully.
Is it just SATA or can you do PATA RAID as well?
Is is real hardware RAID? Ie you can build an array on empty disks(RAID 1 or 0) and then when you install, XP will see the drives as a single disk and then install as normal?
I currently have 2 PATA drives and would love to do RAID 0 for the entire OS.
silentnswift said:Since this is my first time buying an OEM Processor I'm not quite sure what to get. I'm buying this HSF http://shop4.outpost.com/product/4446386 off of the same website. Do HSF's normally include thermal paste to attach it to my Processor? If not, should I buy some of this ceramic Arctic Silver Ceramic Thermal Paste or this silver material Arctic Silver Silver Thermal Paste ? Thanks
QuimZ said:THANK YOU OUTPOST!!! 1 per household, hopefully that wards off some resellers!
Fenris_Ulf said:I've only tried SATA RAID on this board (Thanks ClubIT for the great SATA deals!). Don't know if PATA RAID is available. Worked really easliy, the SATA BIOS was fairly straightforward. Like most onboard RAID, this is software. You couldn't touch hardware RAID at this price. I had to download the NVidia SATA and RAID drivers and put them on a floppy (just copy the whole IDE drivers directory to a floppy) so that I could point Windows intallation to them. Load both after pressing F6 during install, and BAM!, done.
It is fast - using a pair of 160GB WD hard drives, Sandra reports over 100MB/s, faster than a two disk 36 GB Raptor RAID array.
ScreamingBroccoli said:Nice deal, I bit, time to replace the athlon xp 2000+ back up system. Whats the deal with the messed up Nvidia drivers? Should I not use them?
Thanks
-Matt
mesostinky said:Can someone tell me about RAID on this board? The documentation just sucks. I'm building this weekend hopefully.
Is it just SATA or can you do PATA RAID as well?
Is is real hardware RAID? Ie you can build an array on empty disks(RAID 1 or 0) and then when you install, XP will see the drives as a single disk and then install as normal?
I currently have 2 PATA drives and would love to do RAID 0 for the entire OS.
The Other said:different stroke different folks... I had not one problem with them from the nvidia 5.11... maybe because I didn't install the lan or the sound drivers since I have a pci for both.
dondude said:Would this be a better setup then my old athlon 1000? It's gettin tired and been havin problems lately. Would it be worth buying a amd64? Only web surfing most of time no gaming? Any comments would be appreciated.
Fenris_Ulf said:Personally I'd go for a better heatsink, but that one should work just fine. Sometimes the stock AMD heatpipe heatsinks for X2 and Opterons show up on eBay, and are usually a good deal. Most heatsinks come with some generic white paste. Either of those two should be slightly better.
RGMBill said:First off, I'm telling you this is what the board and the BIOS >SAY< they can do... I'll explain in a moment.
The board supports both PATA RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 ....Snip
Fenris_Ulf said:Chenbro Gamer case is well built and only $20 at SVC
http://www.svc.com/cs-pc61166s.html
And I got an Ultra 500w PSU at epowerhousepc for $50. Great combos to go with this mobo/cpu
mesostinky said:Wow, thanks RGMBill. Appreciate the thorough answer. I've actually done RAID before myself, but only on real servers with SCSI drives and real proper RAID controllers. I asked because you just never know with cheap consumer hardware what kind of weird things you might run into. Glad to hear it should be possible.
Now, the only problem is my ghetto case. It's embarassing putting that beautiful AMD heat-pipe HSF into such a craptastic environment. Even the $29 case I saw at compusa it worlds better.