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Just to point something out, you dont actually NEED the win98 CD or a CDROM drive to do an installation. You can do it just by having the win98 directory and all of its contents (from the win98 CD) on the hard drive, then just boot to DOS from floppy and run C:\win98\setup.exe from the laptops hard drive.

Im not seeing a download link anywhere on that page.

I think I have been going on some wrong info for a very long time. I was told (years ago) that /p i forces APM mode, and reading the description doesnt help me very much. So what is the real effect of using the /p i switch during installation?

5900 was the only port I had to forward to get VNC working.

I dont see any hardware based dolby decoding mentioned there. How many years will it take for the expensive after market cards to catch up with the many years old nvidia APU?

Is this problem something that started recently or has it always been there since you got the computer? Post your full system specs!

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Well that totally screws up my plan. Is there any other drive imaging software that will let me do partition to partition with or without the MBR? Even if there was a program that just dealt with saving/restoring the MBR that would be fine.

That temp is completely normal for a palamino core AXP. My 1800+ palamino idled 49-50 C, and went to 53-54 C under full load. What does CPUZ say about the CPU? (ie. is it a palamino, or something else?)

The board manufacturers specs in a case like this cant really be trusted. For motherboards of that era it was common for the manufacturer to simply state that it doesnt accept 256MB SDRAM modules to avoid the flood of tech support problems resulting from people trying to use high density modules and only half the capacity showing up. Im using a Via based motherboard that is as old as his (quite possibly older) and it is using 2x 256MB low density pc133 SDRAM modules (not EDO) despite the fact that it clearly states in the manual that the max installable RAM is 384MB. I have had 3x 256MB in there at one point in the past and that worked just fine too.

I had Ubuntu installed (ext3) on my laptop to try it out, and now im trying to restore my win2k image (NTFS). After I restore the win2k image (the image was taken using partition to image method) and try to boot, I get a GRUB boot loader error (obviously because Ubuntu is no longer there). If I boot to DOS from floppy/CD and run "fdisk /mbr" then win2k will boot. Im guessing that if I try to restore my Ubuntu image now I will have to boot from cd in rescue mode and get GRUB to rewrite the bootloader. Is there a way I can get ghost to save AND restore the MBR when imaging so I can avoid this BS? In this setup I will always be using the "partition to image" and "image to partition" methods since the laptop only has one hard disk.

IBM had one called ViaVoice.

The short answer is you need a low density 256MB module. Nothing you can do in CMOS will fix this; it is a chipset/memory controller limitation. Low density 256MB modules should be easy to spot because they have chips on both sides, where high density modules should only have chips on one side. Some stores might still carry the older low density modules, but they usually charge a premium for them. Other options include exchanging the 256MB module you have for 2x 128MB modules, or trying to find a used low density 256MB module.

Very interesting. I wonder I never heard anything about it until now...

Try enabling and/or disabling the PASV option in whatever FTP client you are using. Or try using another FTP client altogether.

Are you sure K6 and K7 are even capable of being updated through microcode? AFAIK AMD did not start doing that until K8.

I think I remember having to register some dll to fix that one. Im sure I remember finding the answer on the litepc knowledgebase before, but I cant seem to locate it now.

You forgot to mention what the server is going to be used for.

A quality brand PSU is going to run about $50+, so youre a little bit short of a PSU and 6800gs.

First off, you should ignore those wattage recommendations since they are complete fallacy. As far as PC power supplies go, name brand means a lot more than wattage rating. The 6800gs will use ~55 watts in 3d mode, and the 6600gt is probably very close to that. You havent listed your full system specs so it makes it more difficult to say, but if you have a quality PSU like a Fortron, you might be able to get away with it. If you have some generic PSU then you can probably count on having problems and having to upgrade the PSU as well.

Maybe the bearings are going in one of the fans.

That would be a lot better, but the main problem is going to be finding a modern dx8.1 class PCI video card that will actually work in a board that old. It wont be impossible, but it will be a major PITA. I recommend looking around for a used P3 board w/ AGP slot (I see these sell regularily for $10-30 Cdn). If you get a new enough one that will do AGP 2x @3.3V and 4x @1.5V then you will have a much wider range of choices when it comes to video cards. And come to think of it, if you bought both the motherboard and AGP card used, it would probably still cost less than buying just a new low end gaming PCI card.

Are you going to be running some opengl or directx based games on this computer?

It could be that the motherboard is just too old for that video card. There are many revisions of the PCI specification and the older socket 7/370 motherboards were made to meet a much older version of the PCI spec then (for example) that newer lga 775 board you tested and had it work in. The shorter version of that is they just might not be compatible.

If I understand that correctly, the board does not work regardless of wether that new fx5200 is installed? If yes then I suggest stripping the board down to the bare minimum components (motherboard, cpu, ram, video, power supply). If it doesnt work with the bare minimum, then start swapping components until you get it to POST.