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Re: Is This Overclocked Or Not? -
10-26-2006
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"Billy Bob" <me (AT) getlost (DOT) com> wrote in message... My brother in law has offered me a slightly later Abit board. A BE2 maybe BX6? Erm, which one, exactly? The BX6, BX6-2 and BE6-II (not to mention the BE6-II 2.0) are different boards with different capabilities. Would it be crazy to move my system over to it, keeping my XP OS intact? Not crazy, no. I thought I had heard never to transfer an OS to a new MB, etc? Don't know where you heard that. Back in the days of Windows 9x it was relatively easy to transfer an OS install from one physical system to another. XP's Hardware Abstraction Layer can make it a little trickier, but even then in many cases where the base hardware on the two motherboards is very similar. This is the case here as all the boards you're looking at use the 440BX chipset. As such you may literally be able to swap the boards round and boot straight back up. If not, pulling your XP install CD out and running a "repair" install should see you right. Before proceeding though you need to find out exactly which board your brother in law is offering you, and also bear in mind that if either your (overclocked to 133) PC100 memory, or the overclocked 89MHz AGB bus is indeed the problem at the moment, swapping to another 440BX based board won't help. Where some of the newer boards score is in supporting a proper 1/4 PCI divider for 133MHz, so if this is your problem, you could be in luck. If not, however... -- Richard Hopkins Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom (replace nospam with pipex in reply address) The UK's leading technology reseller www.dabs.com |
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Richard, The board I'm being offered is a BE6-II. He doesn't know how to tell if it is a 2.0 or not. So that's a start, anyway. thx bob "Richard Hopkins" <richh (AT) dsl (DOT) nospam.com> wrote in message news  cSdndWEwNjbBt3YRVnysw (AT) pipex (DOT) net..."Billy Bob" <me (AT) getlost (DOT) com> wrote in message... My brother in law has offered me a slightly later Abit board. A BE2 maybe BX6? Erm, which one, exactly? The BX6, BX6-2 and BE6-II (not to mention the BE6-II 2.0) are different boards with different capabilities. Would it be crazy to move my system over to it, keeping my XP OS intact? Not crazy, no. I thought I had heard never to transfer an OS to a new MB, etc? Don't know where you heard that. Back in the days of Windows 9x it was relatively easy to transfer an OS install from one physical system to another. XP's Hardware Abstraction Layer can make it a little trickier, but even then in many cases where the base hardware on the two motherboards is very similar. This is the case here as all the boards you're looking at use the 440BX chipset. As such you may literally be able to swap the boards round and boot straight back up. If not, pulling your XP install CD out and running a "repair" install should see you right. Before proceeding though you need to find out exactly which board your brother in law is offering you, and also bear in mind that if either your (overclocked to 133) PC100 memory, or the overclocked 89MHz AGB bus is indeed the problem at the moment, swapping to another 440BX based board won't help. Where some of the newer boards score is in supporting a proper 1/4 PCI divider for 133MHz, so if this is your problem, you could be in luck. If not, however... -- Richard Hopkins Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom (replace nospam with pipex in reply address) The UK's leading technology reseller www.dabs.com |
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This board will support Intel PIII and Celeron Cpu, to 1.1mh with latest bios. (will not support tualitins, (pardon spelling)) If for free, and works......grab it! On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:18:24 -0700, "Billy Bob" <me (AT) getlost (DOT) com> wrote: Richard, The board I'm being offered is a BE6-II. He doesn't know how to tell if it is a 2.0 or not. So that's a start, anyway. thx bob "Richard Hopkins" <richh (AT) dsl (DOT) nospam.com> wrote in message news cSdndWEwNjbBt3YRVnysw (AT) pipex (DOT) net..."Billy Bob" <me (AT) getlost (DOT) com> wrote in message... My brother in law has offered me a slightly later Abit board. A BE2 maybe BX6? Erm, which one, exactly? The BX6, BX6-2 and BE6-II (not to mention the BE6-II 2.0) are different boards with different capabilities. Would it be crazy to move my system over to it, keeping my XP OS intact? Not crazy, no. I thought I had heard never to transfer an OS to a new MB, etc? Don't know where you heard that. Back in the days of Windows 9x it was relatively easy to transfer an OS install from one physical system to another. XP's Hardware Abstraction Layer can make it a little trickier, but even then in many cases where the base hardware on the two motherboards is very similar. This is the case here as all the boards you're looking at use the 440BX chipset. As such you may literally be able to swap the boards round and boot straight back up. If not, pulling your XP install CD out and running a "repair" install should see you right. Before proceeding though you need to find out exactly which board your brother in law is offering you, and also bear in mind that if either your (overclocked to 133) PC100 memory, or the overclocked 89MHz AGB bus is indeed the problem at the moment, swapping to another 440BX based board won't help. Where some of the newer boards score is in supporting a proper 1/4 PCI divider for 133MHz, so if this is your problem, you could be in luck. If not, however... -- Richard Hopkins Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom (replace nospam with pipex in reply address) The UK's leading technology reseller www.dabs.com |
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if either your (overclocked to 133) PC100 memory, or the overclocked 89MHz AGB bus is indeed the problem at the moment, swapping to another 440BX based board won't help. Unless it has the 1/4 divider, right? |
that your memory doesn't like running at 133MHz, or that your graphics card
doesn't like the overclocked AGP bus, these issues will still be a problem
on a BE6-II, as, just like your current board, it only supports synchronous
memory clocking and only supports 1:1 and 2/3 AGP bus dividers.
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Where some of the newer boards score is in supporting a proper 1/4 PCI divider for 133MHz, so if this is your problem, you could be in luck. If not, however... Do the newer abit boards allow more options for memory and AGP settings, as well? |
BE6 series. If you want a board that has the correct dividers both for the
AGP bus, and the option of running your memory at 100MHz while keeping the
CPU at 133, you need one of the 815-chipset based boards like the SA6 or ST6
series.
Incidentally to answer a point raised elsewhere, the main difference between
the BE6-II and the BE6-II 2.0 is that the 2.0 has a much better additional
ATA controller on board. The original has the (fairly crappy) Highpoint
HPT366, while the 2.0 has the (at the time among the best) RAID capable
HPT370.
There was also a BE6-II version 1.2, which also has the HPT370 - and can be
turned into a full 2.0 spec board simply by flashing the BIOS. Your
broinlaw can tell which version he's got by looking at the serial
number/barcode sticker - which should be stuck to the bottom expansion slot,
but either way it'll be somewhere on the board. The version number will be
printed on it. The indirect method is to look at the ATA controller chip
located at the bottom of the board.
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Richard Hopkins
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
(replace nospam with pipex in reply address)
The UK's leading technology reseller www.dabs.com
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