Upgraded to an AMD

[geoff]

I bought an A8V MB and an AMD 3200 CPU. Of course things never go as
planned and I had the following issues:

1. The heatsink and fan did not go on easily. I even unscrewed the plastic
retention bracket and practiced with it a little bit. The piece of metal
that actually hooks up has a lot of play in it and if it is not perfectly
lined up, then the heatsink does not snap in place. I eventually got it on
and thought to remove it, just to see, but removing it seems just as hard.

2. I bought an ACARD SCSI Controller and during installation, winblows xp
told me twice that the driver is not ms certified, xp will be unstable, I am
a barf bag, etc. I continued with the installation and do not seem to have
any problems so far.

The only issue is every once in a while, when doing a reboot, 'restart the
computer', xp goes of into la la land. The reset button fixes it.

-g

 

[Dale Brisket]

I bought an A8V MB and an AMD 3200 CPU. Of course things never go as
planned and I had the following issues:

1. The heatsink and fan did not go on easily. I even unscrewed the plastic
retention bracket and practiced with it a little bit. The piece of metal
that actually hooks up has a lot of play in it and if it is not perfectly
lined up, then the heatsink does not snap in place. I eventually got it on
and thought to remove it, just to see, but removing it seems just as hard.

2. I bought an ACARD SCSI Controller and during installation, winblows xp
told me twice that the driver is not ms certified, xp will be unstable, I am
a barf bag, etc. I continued with the installation and do not seem to have
any problems so far.

The only issue is every once in a while, when doing a reboot, 'restart the
computer', xp goes of into la la land. The reset button fixes it.

-g

1. Unless you are using the stock HSF that comes with retail AMD processors,
you are at the mercy of the manufacturer's design, none of which are like
another. I've struggled with too many of these so that now I only use stock
cooling. Then again, I don't game or OC, so no biggie.

2. That's what happens when you buy a no-name SCSI adapter. You can't expect
XP to cozy up to every cheap card and its half-ass drivers written mostly by
chimps. Back when I thought I needed SCSI, to avoid driver issues (and this
was with Win98), I used Adaptec only. No problems, ever.

 

[JAD]

I bought an A8V MB and an AMD 3200 CPU. Of course things never go as
planned and I had the following issues:

1. The heatsink and fan did not go on easily. I even unscrewed the
plastic retention bracket and practiced with it a little bit. The piece
of metal that actually hooks up has a lot of play in it and if it is not
perfectly lined up, then the heatsink does not snap in place. I
eventually got it on and thought to remove it, just to see, but removing
it seems just as hard.

Wish I coud post you some threads that complained about this very thing 8
years ago. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

2. I bought an ACARD SCSI Controller and during installation, winblows xp
told me twice that the driver is not ms certified, xp will be unstable, I
am a barf bag, etc. I continued with the installation and do not seem to
have any problems so far.

Ms over the years has gotten pretty sick of people blaming the OS for cheap
driver production.

The only issue is every once in a while, when doing a reboot, 'restart the
computer', xp goes of into la la land. The reset button fixes it.

Check the power management controls and don't use hibernation.

 

[John Doe]

It's probably just as bad over there on the other end of Microsoft.
On this end, we have to call Microsoft for permission to use our
personal computer. On the other end, they have to plead for
technical information and Microsoft then examines their work.
Windows is a great racket.

Ms over the years has gotten pretty sick of people blaming the OS
for cheap driver production.

Microsoft has written stuff that malfunctions in Windows.

Considering JAD's oftentimes careless replies, he makes a good
spokesperson for Microsoft.

 

[geoff]

2. That's what happens when you buy a no-name SCSI adapter. You can't

expect
XP to cozy up to every cheap card and its half-ass drivers written mostly
by
chimps. Back when I thought I needed SCSI, to avoid driver issues (and
this
was with Win98), I used Adaptec only. No problems, ever.

I am eventually going to work everything down to one sata disk. However, I
did not want to replace everything right now, plus the data on my drives,
so, I went this route.

The future, SATA disk, new case, maybe new mb, new cpu, memory, 64-bit os.
I only want to do this after vista has been out for a while and the bugs are
worked out of it.

I built my p2b-ds in 1998 and got 7 years out of it. This was a low budget
upgrade.

-g

 

[Ernest]

I've never been much of a fan of stock coolers... I don't overclock,
its just those things are like backups. So I look in online stores,
especially Newegg, and look for a cooler with three prongs, instead of
the one prong that the stock has. The one bought came on very easily,
but shelled about $20-$30 on it. Oh well. I think it was well worth it.
Its very quiet too