Hey Everyone!
I have this old piece of crap Intel board and I don't quite get the Graphics and RAM,
It's an Intel D845HV http://downloadmirror.intel.com/15332/eng/D845HV_TechProdSpec.pdf
First the Graphics, I guess it's AGP, what I don't get about that is that it has a serial port only, no VGA. I googled that for a couple minutes and saw a few posts about that and they said you can't run video through a serial port. So then what's that F port for on page 52?
Or would I need some agp to vga adapter? How do you plug the monitor in? Or should I just get an agp card, if so can I get some recommendations on that? It says "The AGP connector supports 1.5 V 4X and 2X AGP cards."
Now the RAM
System Memory Features
The Intel® Desktop Board D845HV has two or three DIMM sockets and support the following memory features:
3.3 V (only) 168-pin SDRAM DIMMs with gold-plated contacts
Unbuffered single-sided or double-sided DIMMs
Maximum total system memory*: 3 GB with 3 DIMMs, 2 GB with 2 DIMMs (using 512 MB technology); minimum total system memory: 32 MB
133 MHz SDRAM DIMMs only
Serial Presence Detect (SPD)
Suspend to RAM support
ECC and non-ECC DIMMs
* The Intel® Desktop Board D845HV/D845WN have been designed to support DIMMs based on 512 Mbit technology for a maximum onboard capacity of up to 3 GB, but this technology has not been validated on this board.
I checked out Crucial.com and they gave me this: http://www.crucial.com/search/searchresults.aspx?keywords=D845HV
Which not only is it way too expensive but WILL this board actually accept 512MB chips? Since it says "but this technology has not been validated on this board." ? That bothers me. lol It only has 3 slots and 3 256MB chips would hardly be enough.
Or should I just scrap the whole idea and not waste my money on this old piece of crap board? haha. But it is a P4 sopposedly, which isn't too terrible. What say you guys?
Thanks!!
I have this old piece of crap Intel board and I don't quite get the Graphics and RAM,
It's an Intel D845HV http://downloadmirror.intel.com/15332/eng/D845HV_TechProdSpec.pdf
First the Graphics, I guess it's AGP, what I don't get about that is that it has a serial port only, no VGA. I googled that for a couple minutes and saw a few posts about that and they said you can't run video through a serial port. So then what's that F port for on page 52?
Or would I need some agp to vga adapter? How do you plug the monitor in? Or should I just get an agp card, if so can I get some recommendations on that? It says "The AGP connector supports 1.5 V 4X and 2X AGP cards."
Now the RAM
System Memory Features
The Intel® Desktop Board D845HV has two or three DIMM sockets and support the following memory features:
3.3 V (only) 168-pin SDRAM DIMMs with gold-plated contacts
Unbuffered single-sided or double-sided DIMMs
Maximum total system memory*: 3 GB with 3 DIMMs, 2 GB with 2 DIMMs (using 512 MB technology); minimum total system memory: 32 MB
133 MHz SDRAM DIMMs only
Serial Presence Detect (SPD)
Suspend to RAM support
ECC and non-ECC DIMMs
* The Intel® Desktop Board D845HV/D845WN have been designed to support DIMMs based on 512 Mbit technology for a maximum onboard capacity of up to 3 GB, but this technology has not been validated on this board.
I checked out Crucial.com and they gave me this: http://www.crucial.com/search/searchresults.aspx?keywords=D845HV
Which not only is it way too expensive but WILL this board actually accept 512MB chips? Since it says "but this technology has not been validated on this board." ? That bothers me. lol It only has 3 slots and 3 256MB chips would hardly be enough.
Or should I just scrap the whole idea and not waste my money on this old piece of crap board? haha. But it is a P4 sopposedly, which isn't too terrible. What say you guys?
Thanks!!