-=PCTechTalk=- Re: making upgrade on MB questions
- From: "Lee Rhodes" <lenella@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 10:10:49 -0700
Thanks Mike & Susanne,
The SDRAM didn't work but I did have 2 more DRAM at 8 each, so I got him
up to 32MB. Got the larger drive in and it's working fine. Have not tried the
CPU yet, but I was able to get the manual for that model MB off the azza site
and the jumpers do have to be changed and it shows in good detail where and
how. That will be my next project but have company coming shortly, so won't be
till later. I think he'll be much happier with this and since he only uses for
minimal things and it's multi-tasking that memory should be fine. Better than
what he had! LOL Plus the drive is over 10 times what he had.
Lee Rhodes lenella@xxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: suzánne
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 9:21 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: making upgrade on MB questions
hey Lee... [no I'm not laughing! I've had to try to upgrade older machines
often at work.... one does what one can with what one has available]
if the manual lists a K6, it should be able to handle it, but you may have
to play around with jumpers to get it to work. I hope the manual has
diagrams for you! the jumpers on those old mother boards can be quite
trying, at best....
try adding your 168 pin stick of ram into the appropriate slot, if the BIOS
doesn't recognise it, try removing the old 72 pin sticks.
before you begin, you might check for a BIOS upgrade for the board.
~s
----- From: "Lee Rhodes"
> Now don't laugh, but I have a guy that is only down here 5 mos out of the
year. He has an old (originally 3.1) computer that someone had installed Win
95 on it. He started having problems and I tried re-installing win 95 and
it won't work right. This machine have a 450MB Hard drive; Cyrix 6X86MX Pr
166 CPU ; Intel 82437VX Chipset with Winbond W83977F; Award BIOS 128KBx8
Flash ROM. He has two DRAM chips and I forgot the total but I think it was
16MB.
>
> Ok, I have some parts here and was thinking of upgrading it to put Win98
on it. I have a 2.8G drive which the BIOS will take if set in LBA Mode. I
have an AMD K6 266 CPU.......In the manual In one section where it's
giving the CPU's it can use it says AMD K5, but In this section it says "
**For the dual-VCC required CPUs. (e.g. Intel P55C, Cyrix 6x86L, Cyrix
6x86MX, AMD-K5-xxAH?, AMD-K5-xxAJ?, AMD-K6....etc.) That is for the jumper
settings for CPU VCC. Does this mean that I could use that AMD K6?
> Also besides the 4 DRAM slots it has 2 SIMMs slots. It says: the system
board will support two banks main memory (bank0 and bank 1) on board (using
4- 72 pin SIMM socket, SIMM 1 - 4 and two 168-pin DIMM socket, DIMM 1 - 2)
each bank could be single-sided or double sided, 8MB up to 128 MB of local
memory can be attained. FPM, EDO, and SDRAM....I have some 64MB 168 SDRAM
memory. With what's already in there can I add I stick of the 168 SDRAM
memory in it.
>
> I could not copy the pages of the manual as it's in pdf format, but I
printed those two pages out and scanned them into jpg format which I could
upload into the files section if that will help.
>
> OH, the MB AZZA PT-5IVH
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