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Subject: Re: To Slater Wold

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 18:54:13 09/25/01

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On September 25, 2001 at 19:22:30, Slater Wold wrote:

>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.  :)

Thank's for the quick response Slater, just one last question is a new power
supply nesecary?( wheter you gor for the T-bird or the MP) and in which case
what did you go with?

Regards
Jonas



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