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Subject: Re: To Slater Wold

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 16:22:30 09/25/01

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On September 25, 2001 at 16:42:44, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>On September 25, 2001 at 06:11:17, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On September 25, 2001 at 04:39:18, Terje Vagle wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>What motherboard are you using to run 2x1.4Ghz AMD?
>>>
>>>I thought you had to use the The AMD Athlon™ MP processor to run a 2 processor
>>>AMD solution?
>>>
>>>Thanks for any response...
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Terje
>>
>>Tyan Tiger MP S2460.
>>
>>And yes, the 1.4Ghz does work.  But if you have problems, you will get zero
>>support.
>>
>>
>>Slate
>
>When you say the 1.4ghz you mean the regular Athlon T-bird right?

Yes.

>Have you had any problems with this system so far?

Not a single one.  It has stayed up for 18 days straight before.  And it is at
200% CPU usage 90% of the time.  I have had one blue screen.  (In Win2k, that's
a crash.)  And it was because I ejected a CD.  This was a problem that was
repaired in SP1.  After installing SP2, no problems what-so-ever.

>Could you post a list of all the components in you system?

2 AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz CPU's
Tyan Tiger MP S2460
4 256MB sticks of Corsair PC2100 DDR RAM
A cheap sound card.
nVidia Geforce3 3D 64MB DDR RAM AGP 4X w/ TV-Out
Kingston Network Card
2x40GB WD HD's
Panasonic DVD-ROM & TDK CD-RW
IEEE 1394 "Firewire" Card

>And any do's and dont's regarding putting this system together.

Just one.  Note that if you buy this system, and it does not work for you,
things can become VERY frustrating.

I have a friend of a friend, who heard about my system, and inquired about it.
I gave him the ran down, just like I gave you.  He went out and bought the same
exact parts as I did, and built his own.  *It has never worked.*

He ordered the parts locally.  Placed the order for the mobo, cpu's, heatsink,
fans, power supply, and memory, all together.  When he recieved them, he put it
all together himself.  It wouldn't boot.  He has swapped, and swapped, and
tested, and tried everything we know to do, and it has yet to POST.

Bad thing is, when he went to have the place he bought the equipment at, test
the system, they told him to "get lost".  He had used the equipment in a fashion
that it was not designed for.  Therefore he voided the warranty on _EVERY_
single part he had bought.  There is a good possiblity that he's out over $300.
He might be able to sell the CPU's, and buy the 1.2MP CPU's.  That is, if the
mobo didn't ship broken.

It is a risk.  I just hope anyone who decides to buy this system knows that.  My
disclaimer:  I cannot be held liable, because I got lucky and haven't had a
problem.  :)

>
>Regards
>Jonas



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