Hmm.. at work we had some dealings with a company that we got to build us some PCs using older hardware (Anyone remember my thread about ISA slots?).. And they cocked up and sent us some PCs with stuff that's a little too new. They sent us some replacement mobos and we swapped them out ourselves, but the company has since gone bust while still owing us 2 monitors & 2 copies of Win98, so we'll just hang on to these mobos & the 2x 256Mb Twinmos RAM that came with them... works out about even.
So anyway, I have this thing installed in a PC with a few other bits of hardware I had lying around, and it's not <i>that</i> stable. It seems ok running Sandra burn-in, but if I try 3dmark it gets most of the way through then just dumps back to the desktop. No error messages that I can see, just back to desktop... Have had a couple of other lockups elsewhere.
I would normally check voltages, temperatures, etc, but the BIOS on this thing doesn't seem to have them listed anywhere, and both Sandra and MBM5 just give me complete junk (the same junk - the two agree). e.g:
No CPU temp.
Board temp 9* (ambient is ~19* in the office perhaps)
CPU core voltage 2.83V (but as that would blow it up I find it hard to believe)
'Auxiliary Voltage' 1.47V < I suspect this is the actual core voltage
+3.3 = 2.26V
+5 = 1.96V
+12 = 7.84V
So as you can see, these can't possibly be right, or there's no way it'd be sat here running windows.
I assume a new BIOS might help.. but I don't know who makes this thing. There's no Manu name anywhere I can find.. Any ideas people? Here's what I know for sure:
KT266 (non-A)
3 DDR Slots.
5 PCI slots.
Has a blue ACR slot between AGP and PCI slots.
Has onboard sound, 3 audio jacks + Gameport on the back
Also on the back, 2 PS2, 2x USB, 2xSerial, 1xParallel (the usual suspects)
Currently has a 32Mb Geforce DDR in the AGP slot, 3Com LAN card and a SB Audigy in 2 PCI slots. and a 1.4Ghz 133Mhz FSB Duron.
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So anyway, I have this thing installed in a PC with a few other bits of hardware I had lying around, and it's not <i>that</i> stable. It seems ok running Sandra burn-in, but if I try 3dmark it gets most of the way through then just dumps back to the desktop. No error messages that I can see, just back to desktop... Have had a couple of other lockups elsewhere.
I would normally check voltages, temperatures, etc, but the BIOS on this thing doesn't seem to have them listed anywhere, and both Sandra and MBM5 just give me complete junk (the same junk - the two agree). e.g:
No CPU temp.
Board temp 9* (ambient is ~19* in the office perhaps)
CPU core voltage 2.83V (but as that would blow it up I find it hard to believe)
'Auxiliary Voltage' 1.47V < I suspect this is the actual core voltage
+3.3 = 2.26V
+5 = 1.96V
+12 = 7.84V
So as you can see, these can't possibly be right, or there's no way it'd be sat here running windows.
I assume a new BIOS might help.. but I don't know who makes this thing. There's no Manu name anywhere I can find.. Any ideas people? Here's what I know for sure:
KT266 (non-A)
3 DDR Slots.
5 PCI slots.
Has a blue ACR slot between AGP and PCI slots.
Has onboard sound, 3 audio jacks + Gameport on the back
Also on the back, 2 PS2, 2x USB, 2xSerial, 1xParallel (the usual suspects)
Currently has a 32Mb Geforce DDR in the AGP slot, 3Com LAN card and a SB Audigy in 2 PCI slots. and a 1.4Ghz 133Mhz FSB Duron.
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