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My AMD system is finally running. Got a 1700+ T-bred. Have Q's & Thanks
Well, I finally got my AMD system running.
After troubles with an A7V333, to find out that my XP 1600+ AGOIA Y was indeed a dead chip.
I went to the closest PC store today, originally intending on buying a cheap Duron to determine whether or not the problem with my new board (Epox 8K5A3+) was the CPU. As most suggested the CPU was dead, you guys were right.
They were selling retail XP1700+s for $79, and I checked the steppings, to find that the 1700s were T-Breds!
I had a rush of geek adrenaline, and asked to check the 1800+s to see if they were T-Breds also, but only the 1700+s were, so I bought one.
I got a RIRGA stepping chip (how high can this go....with water? is it as good or better than my dead XP1600+ AGOIA Y?).
I rushed home, popped in the chip, installed the cooler, and fired it up.
OMG it works!!!!!
I looked through all the options in the BIOS (checked the FSB overclocking tab, it asks to enter a code or something. Am I looking at the wrong thing or can someone explain how this works?). The temps are good 89 degrees farenheit w/ an Antec aluminum skived cooler, and the core voltage is 1.52v. The RAM was automatically run at 333Mhz (PC-2700) which was very nice.
I tried booting off of my Win98SE partition from my HP Pavilion which I pulled the drive from, got pretty far but when Windows was detecting the new devices it got all funky, artifacted, and crashed up.
So I ran FDISK, erased that partition, and I'm formatting the drive now. (Geesh, it takes a hell of a long time, only at 41% so far! Well it is a 80GB drive I suppose...). I'm installing Win98SE from an OEM CD I got for nothing, after I install the OS, just install the motherboard drivers off the Epox CD and I should be ok to install a game and try it out, right? (after I install my vid card drivers of course).
Thanks to the tons of people on this forum that helped me over a months span to figure out what my problem was and get my AMD system running. You guys rock~!
Well, I finally got my AMD system running.
After troubles with an A7V333, to find out that my XP 1600+ AGOIA Y was indeed a dead chip.
I went to the closest PC store today, originally intending on buying a cheap Duron to determine whether or not the problem with my new board (Epox 8K5A3+) was the CPU. As most suggested the CPU was dead, you guys were right.
They were selling retail XP1700+s for $79, and I checked the steppings, to find that the 1700s were T-Breds!
I had a rush of geek adrenaline, and asked to check the 1800+s to see if they were T-Breds also, but only the 1700+s were, so I bought one.
I got a RIRGA stepping chip (how high can this go....with water? is it as good or better than my dead XP1600+ AGOIA Y?).
I rushed home, popped in the chip, installed the cooler, and fired it up.
OMG it works!!!!!
I looked through all the options in the BIOS (checked the FSB overclocking tab, it asks to enter a code or something. Am I looking at the wrong thing or can someone explain how this works?). The temps are good 89 degrees farenheit w/ an Antec aluminum skived cooler, and the core voltage is 1.52v. The RAM was automatically run at 333Mhz (PC-2700) which was very nice.
I tried booting off of my Win98SE partition from my HP Pavilion which I pulled the drive from, got pretty far but when Windows was detecting the new devices it got all funky, artifacted, and crashed up.
So I ran FDISK, erased that partition, and I'm formatting the drive now. (Geesh, it takes a hell of a long time, only at 41% so far! Well it is a 80GB drive I suppose...). I'm installing Win98SE from an OEM CD I got for nothing, after I install the OS, just install the motherboard drivers off the Epox CD and I should be ok to install a game and try it out, right? (after I install my vid card drivers of course).
Thanks to the tons of people on this forum that helped me over a months span to figure out what my problem was and get my AMD system running. You guys rock~!