ASUS Dual Athlon MP motherboard

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On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:13:59 +0000 (UTC), "Rob Nicholson"
<rob.nicholson@NOSPAM_informed-direct.com> wrote:

>Do ASUS still make a dual Athlon MP motherboard? I've found references to
>A7M266-D on the internet but there is no mention on the ASUS web site.
>
>We've had all sorts of trouble with our existing Gigabyte GA-7DPXDW+
>motherboard. It was faulty on delivery (bad memory subsystem) and recently
>devices have started acting up - disk errors and blue screens. At first, we
>thought it might have been the Adaptec SCSI adapter so I took the system
>down this evening to take the SCSI system out and replace it temporarily
>with an IDE drive. Despite trying three IDE devices on all four of the IDE
>connectors, the motherboard just won't recognise any IDE hard disks. I'm
>sure all these drives can't be knackered. We were going to try upgrading the
>BIOS and the final straw was when I noticed the floppy disk light was on
>permantely and it wouldn't access the floppy disk.
>
>So we want a replacement board...
>
>Thanks, Rob.
>


I don't know if Asus still makes the board, I had a hard time finding
one here.

A7M266-D page....
http://usa.asus.com/mb/socketa/a7m266-d/overview.htm

Ed

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> I don't know if Asus still makes the board, I had a hard time finding
> one here.

Might go for the Tyan Tiger board instead then.

Rob.

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"Rob Nicholson" <rob.nicholson@nospam_unforgettable.com> wrote in message
news:AByLd.381$r34.193@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net...
> > I don't know if Asus still makes the board, I had a hard time finding
> > one here.
>
> Might go for the Tyan Tiger board instead then.
>
> Rob.
>
>
I recently picked up an MSI http://tinyurl.com/6krs4 the price went up by $8
since I last looked. Compared to an A7M266-D the MSI runs hotter and
requires more cooling. It cannot be told to "ignore" xp cpu and expects an
"mp" unlike the ASUS. I had to cut a hole in the side and add a large fan
for cooling. Even with all copper HSF.

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On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:49:04 GMT, "Rob Nicholson"
<rob.nicholson@nospam_unforgettable.com> wrote:

>> I don't know if Asus still makes the board, I had a hard time finding
>> one here.
>
>Might go for the Tyan Tiger board instead then.
>

No, this asus board is unique for several reasons:

1) it takes unbuffered DDR ram (not demand for ECC)
2) it will take XP mobile without any modifications of these

3) thereby it is possible to tune multiplier with pin-mod method
(cheeting the chipset)

There are plenty of them second hand on ebay. Probably with 2 cpu
also.

Search google for some OC stories of a7m266-d

best regards

John

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> There are plenty of them second hand on ebay. Probably with 2 cpu
> also.

Unfortunately, we're in the UK and there's only one. Okay, so it's currently
on eBay for £6.50 :-)

> Search google for some OC stories of a7m266-d

Hmm, don't like those "not stable" postings...

Thanks, Rob.

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On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 09:44:06 +0100, "JK (at mail dot dk)"
<johnknuhtsen@address.invalid> wrote:

>On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:49:04 GMT, "Rob Nicholson"
><rob.nicholson@nospam_unforgettable.com> wrote:
>
>>> I don't know if Asus still makes the board, I had a hard time finding
>>> one here.
>>
>>Might go for the Tyan Tiger board instead then.
>>
>
>No, this asus board is unique for several reasons:
>
>1) it takes unbuffered DDR ram (not demand for ECC)
>2) it will take XP mobile without any modifications of these

Specifically, what kinds of "recommended" XP Mobile mods are _not_
needed with this motherboard?
>
>3) thereby it is possible to tune multiplier with pin-mod method
>(cheeting the chipset)


Do you own this board? Do you have personal experience with the
pin-mod method? What about the products that mount into the CPU
socket on the motherboard and "fool" the CPU or the motherboard?
Thanks.

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