INTEL board N232, E139761

[CBFalconer]

I have a system here whose MB is labelled INTEL N232 and E139761.

Does anyone know offhand where to find a manual for the MB? What I
particularly want to know is what memory it can handle, and whether
it can use ECC memory. After that can the bios handle drives over
8GB, or is it flashable for that. It is equipped with a 450Mhz P3,
and I don't plan to change that.

For identification purposes, the board has 4 PCI and 2 ISA slots,
plus the video. It appears to have 2 serial and one parallel
interface, together with USB and PS2 keyboard and mouse built in,
together with 2 IDE channels and floppy.

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[CBFalconer]

I have a system here whose MB is labelled INTEL N232 and E139761.

Does anyone know offhand where to find a manual for the MB? What I
particularly want to know is what memory it can handle, and whether
it can use ECC memory. After that can the bios handle drives over
8GB, or is it flashable for that. It is equipped with a 450Mhz P3,
and I don't plan to change that.

For identification purposes, the board has 4 PCI and 2 ISA slots,
plus the video. It appears to have 2 serial and one parallel
interface, together with USB and PS2 keyboard and mouse built in,
together with 2 IDE channels and floppy.

Further info - it boots up claiming to be a SE440BX-2 board, with
bios id 4S4#B2X0.86A.0022.P15. The bios configuration allows
energizing ECC for the L2 cache, so I assume ECC is available if I
mount ECC memory.

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http://www.geocities.com/nnqweb/

http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

 

[kony]

Further info - it boots up claiming to be a SE440BX-2 board, with
bios id 4S4#B2X0.86A.0022.P15. The bios configuration allows
energizing ECC for the L2 cache, so I assume ECC is available if I
mount ECC memory.

It can use ECC memory, further info here:
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/se440bx2/sb/cs-013639.htm

It should support over 8GB HDD after the newest bios update-
with original bios I don't know. The more recent bios
would be desirable for support of more modern power
management in Win2k or XP as well.

ECC support for L2 cache is not an indicator of ECC main
memory support, and yet the board does support the ECC main
memory.

Manual and all remaining support available from Intel by
search function, ie-

Manaul & update
ftp://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/se440bx2/72163201.pdf
ftp://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/se440bx2/72585615.pdf

Generic search
http://search2.intel.com/corporate/default.aspx?culture=en-US&q=SE440BX-2

 

[CBFalconer]

It can use ECC memory, further info here:
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/se440bx2/sb/cs-013639.htm

It should support over 8GB HDD after the newest bios update-
with original bios I don't know. The more recent bios
would be desirable for support of more modern power
management in Win2k or XP as well.

ECC support for L2 cache is not an indicator of ECC main
memory support, and yet the board does support the ECC main
memory.

Manual and all remaining support available from Intel by
search function, ie-

Manaul & update
ftp://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/se440bx2/72163201.pdf
ftp://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/se440bx2/72585615.pdf

Generic search
http://search2.intel.com/corporate/default.aspx?culture=en-US&q=SE440BX-2

Thanks, got those manuals. Looks like a useful buy for $69 (plus
shipping). It comes with a DVD (which appears to be faulty),
floppy, separate video, not characterized yet, 10/100, sound card,
and 6 GB disk and 128 MB non-ECC. The presence of 2 ISA is very
useful to me, and 450 Mhz will do. The big question now is whether
the bios will handle larger disks. All the manual appears to say
is LBA. I want to dual boot it with Linux/W98.

--
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http://www.geocities.com/nnqweb/

http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

 

[kony]

Thanks, got those manuals. Looks like a useful buy for $69 (plus
shipping). It comes with a DVD (which appears to be faulty),
floppy, separate video, not characterized yet, 10/100, sound card,
and 6 GB disk and 128 MB non-ECC. The presence of 2 ISA is very
useful to me, and 450 Mhz will do. The big question now is whether
the bios will handle larger disks. All the manual appears to say
is LBA. I want to dual boot it with Linux/W98.

Check the bios notes- I'd expect there's a bios that handles
up to at least 128GB HDDs, but I don't know it for certain.
I am pretty confident there's one for over 8GB though, it
may've supported that even with first bios released.

You might consider downloading and archiving all the
available bios, as I vaguely recall that board was able to
run Coppermine Celeron or P3 (socket 370 type) with an
appropriate slotket adapter. It "might" be able to run a
slot 1 Coppermine P3 too. For that matter, with appropriate
adapter (self-modified or a Powerleap) it might even run a
Tualatin Celeron up to 1.4GHz.

It's a pretty good choice for a board with lSA and a longer
expected lifespan... there were a lot of far poorer boards
during that era even from otherwise good manufacturers like
Abit. Intel during that era had more of a lead on other
manufacturers than they do now.

 

[CBFalconer]

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Check the bios notes- I'd expect there's a bios that handles
up to at least 128GB HDDs, but I don't know it for certain.
I am pretty confident there's one for over 8GB though, it
may've supported that even with first bios released.

You might consider downloading and archiving all the
available bios, as I vaguely recall that board was able to
run Coppermine Celeron or P3 (socket 370 type) with an
appropriate slotket adapter. It "might" be able to run a
slot 1 Coppermine P3 too. For that matter, with appropriate
adapter (self-modified or a Powerleap) it might even run a
Tualatin Celeron up to 1.4GHz.

Nothing seems to say. I tried to get the last issued bios, which
appears to be stepping 17 (the installed one is stepping 15), but
nothing comes over.

--
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http://www.geocities.com/nnqweb/

http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

 

[kony]

Nothing seems to say. I tried to get the last issued bios, which
appears to be stepping 17 (the installed one is stepping 15), but
nothing comes over.

It does appear that v16 added several APCI power management
support features for Win2k & newer, among other more trivial
changes. It would be good to have at least v16, might as
well make it v17.

Your browser is probably unsupportive of the download
mechanism or is overly restricted for security reasons.
You can get it here,

BIOS 17, file CRC 1EC35AA7
http://69.36.189.159/usr_1034/SE2BIO17.EXE

Release Notes
http://69.36.189.159/usr_1034/RNOTE171.pdf

Considering the release data was Sept. '00, it would be very
unusual for it to not support at least up to 128GB HDD, you
might go ahead and connect the drive and see what the bios
reports.

Note that with Win2k or XP, installing the newer bios might
require (or at least for the benefit of the bios changes to
be in effect) reinstalling the operating system. I dont'
think that applies to Win9x, don't know about other OS.
IIRC Win9x had some method of changing APM power management
to ACPI after installed, it required a registry change and
something else (perhaps going through the Add/Remove
Hardware, "search for..." routine. I don't recall all the
details but Google should be able to find them.

 

[jkarlos]

Hello CB.

Here you can find how much memory can handle, by entering your system model or by scanning your system.

www.memorystock.com

JCC.

Good luck.