Intel 440ZX Chipset

[Lars_Coleman]

Anyone know any good or bad things about this chipset? For some reason I can't load Windows2000 or Linux and I am thinking this could be the reason. I can't find anything about the chipset from the mobo mfg. and I haven't seen it on many other boards.

Motherboard ::: Biostar M6TZA
Chipset ::: Intel 440ZX

Please let me know if you have any ideas. I checked the motherboard mfg. for a Bios upgrade but the details of the one and only flash that they have says nothing about anything I care about.

Thanks! *:O)

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[jrybon]

I am also having troubles. It accepted 2K, but not recognize the onboard video or audio hardware. I also found the Biostar website to be lacking. As a matter of fact, they claim it's a PII device, but mine is a Slot 1 PIII. Go figure. -John

 

[ChipDeath]

Intel Has some details about the chipset. A link to some IDE drivers but not a lot else though.

If you could list exactly what the problem you encounter is then someone might be of some more help

 

[jrybon]

Win 2k does not recognize the on-board sound or video devices. Video defaults to a large, coarse standard that is incompatible with hardware installation software.

 

[ChipDeath]

Since the Chipset does not (as far as my quick look earlier said) actually have either integrated graphics or Sound, these will be third-party chips, so you'd need to dowload the drivers for them from their respective manufacturers.

In fact, having just downloaded a copy of the manual.... The M6TZA doesn't have onboard video OR sound, so that might explain your problems.

You may have a board with the 440ZX chipset, but you don't have the board the Original poster does.

 

[Crashman]

Yes, the ZX is a BX with an artificial limit of 512MB and something like 3 or 4 busmastering PCI slots. Intel wanted to offer a "cheaper" version of the BX for budget boards, so they just made a few modifications to make the ZX undesirable for the high-end (it still cost the same to make of course).

So now that you know the ZX IS a BX, so far as the OS is concerned, you need to find a different problem.

 

[apache_lives]

the Katmai P3's (250nm, slot1 only) are the same as a the later slot 1 p2's so there all compatible with each other (eg both are 2.0v 250nm external cache etc) and work the same.