Upgrade

[Bill]

Hi and a Happy New Year
I have been installing various bits in my
computer for several years and I have bought the gear to upgrade my
computer but after reading the manual I am not sure whether I am in
over my head and hope this group can give me some advice.
The upgrades are
AMD Athlon 3200+
Motherboard Asus A7N8X-Enforce2 Deluxe

AMD Athlon XP 3200+ OEM
1 of Patriot Dual Channel 512Mb PC3200 DDR
(2*256 Mb) Low Latency Kit
1 Seagate ST340014A 40 Giga HDD formatted
NTFS on the system I am upgrading.

My questions are
Should the CPU external Freq be set to 200MHz
Should I have to alter theFreq Multiple Setting [Auto] if so how.
Do I have to set the jumpers for the USB Device wakeup or does this
only apply
if a setting is made in the BIOS.

I have made a Seagate startup disc and downloaded the MS XP startup
discs in case the new board
does not recognise the drive
I hope I have done enough to make the installation straightforward.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Many thaks in advance.
Apologies for the messy printing but I printed it
first in Wordpad and copied it over with the result above.

Bill

 

[Ed]

Hi and a Happy New Year
I have been installing various bits in my
computer for several years and I have bought the gear to upgrade my
computer but after reading the manual I am not sure whether I am in
over my head and hope this group can give me some advice.
The upgrades are
AMD Athlon 3200+
Motherboard Asus A7N8X-Enforce2 Deluxe

AMD Athlon XP 3200+ OEM
1 of Patriot Dual Channel 512Mb PC3200 DDR
(2*256 Mb) Low Latency Kit
1 Seagate ST340014A 40 Giga HDD formatted
NTFS on the system I am upgrading.

My questions are
Should the CPU external Freq be set to 200MHz
Should I have to alter theFreq Multiple Setting [Auto] if so how.

Set bus to 200MHz for a 3200+, shouldn't have to set cpu multiple, and
unless it's an unlocked CPU you can't change it anyway.

Do I have to set the jumpers for the USB Device wakeup or does this
only apply
if a setting is made in the BIOS.

If a jumper is set to disabled then the BIOS setting is discarded, the
jumper(s) and BIOS setting(s) both have to be enabled for the option to
work.

I have made a Seagate startup disc and downloaded the MS XP startup
discs in case the new board
does not recognise the drive

The BIOS doesn't care what is on the hard drive, the hard drive just has
to be configured correctly, which is usually a jumper on the drive
itself for Master/Slave options and plugged into the correct part of the
IDE cable, usually it's Master at end-Black), Slave in center-Grey,
Blue or other color end plugs into mobo.

I hope I have done enough to make the installation straightforward.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Many thaks in advance.
Apologies for the messy printing but I printed it
first in Wordpad and copied it over with the result above.

Bill

Good luck,
Ed

 

[Paul]

Hi and a Happy New Year
I have been installing various bits in my
computer for several years and I have bought the gear to upgrade my
computer but after reading the manual I am not sure whether I am in
over my head and hope this group can give me some advice.
The upgrades are
AMD Athlon 3200+

Motherboard Asus A7N8X-Enforce2 Deluxe

AMD Athlon XP 3200+ OEM
1 of Patriot Dual Channel 512Mb PC3200 DDR
(2*256 Mb) Low Latency Kit
1 Seagate ST340014A 40 Giga HDD formatted
NTFS on the system I am upgrading.

My questions are
Should the CPU external Freq be set to 200MHz

A 3200+ is 200x11 (2200MHz). The pins on the bottom of the chip should
select 200MHz by default. It shouldn't need to be forced to
200MHz (unless it is a 2500+ relabelled to look like a 3200+).

Should I have to alter theFreq Multiple Setting [Auto] if so how.

Auto should work fine. Check with http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz in
Windows later, to verify what frequencies are being used.

Do I have to set the jumpers for the USB Device wakeup or does this
only apply if a setting is made in the BIOS.

The purpose of the USB "PW" header jumper, is to select a power
source that can run the USB interface when the rest of the computer
is sleeping. The +5VSB power source continues to run when the
computer sleeps, so if that pair of USB ports and plugged device
are to be used to wake the computer, the USB device needs to get
power somehow. The +5VSB is the source to use in that case. If
your computer supports wake from USB keyboard, then +5VSB would
be a good choice, otherwise the default +5V supply can supply more
power without overloading the limited +5VSB supply. It is generally
not a good idea to change all the USB PW headers, as if you use
scanners or Alcatel "Frog" 330 modems that draw 500mA each, you
could draw more current than the 2 amps typically available on
+5VSB output of an ATX power supply.

I have made a Seagate startup disc and downloaded the MS XP
startup discs in case the new board does not recognise the drive
I hope I have done enough to make the installation straightforward.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Many thaks in advance.
Apologies for the messy printing but I printed it
first in Wordpad and copied it over with the result above.

Bill

Booting from the Windows XP install CD and doing a repair
install, will fix up the disk driver problem that usually
arises. I've managed to change to the default Microsoft
IDE driver, while my boot disk was in the old computer, and
then Windows could re-enumerate all the new hardware. This
doesn't always work, if the new hardware cannot directly use
the MS standard IDE driver. Doing a repair install means
having to reinstall service packs and security updates etc.,
but at least your settings won't be lost. Your installed
programs should still be there as well.

(By the way, when installing the Nforce2 chipset drivers
after you get Windows running, I recommend deselecting the
Nforce IDE driver. I'm not a great fan of chipset maker
IDE drivers, as they all have some kind of compatibility
problems. Chipset IDE drivers sometimes have their own
private data cache, that can make their driver faster for
some operations, but I prefer data integrity over speed
any day. So, I leave the default MS IDE driver.)

I've moved my drive with Win2K installed, from one computer
to another, but was fortunate to have not disassembled the
first computer, before betting on the new computer to boot.
I needed to move the drive back and forth a couple of times,
before I got the recipe right. A repair install or clean
install might be an equal amount of work, only the old
computer wouldn't be needed.

HTH,
Paul