drowds hardware failure of the fall of 2003

drowddrowd Texas
edited October 2003 in Hardware
ok, so here is the bomb-diggity

i THINK that my motherboard went kaput. i have an abit at7-raid with a 2100+ thoroughbred rev. b and a 512 mb stick of ddr 3200 ram. it has been running fine for the last year, but yesterday i did a backup and formatted. anyway, so since i was gonna be formatting, i wanted to crank up my mobo settings a bit. so i upped the fsb by very little, not much at all. anyway, i complete the install, windows lands, and shortly after i noticed it was rebooting every so often. so i was gonna pull the fsb back down and reinstall, but then i noticed that my keyboard was not responding. now, if you will recall, the at7 was part of abit's line of computers that had no legacy ports. all it has is usb and firewire ports. so, there are some sort of basic usb drivers loaded to the motherboard, but for some reason they arent responding. also, rest assured, i have cleared my cmos and tried the keyboard on a different pc. so, if anyone has any ideas. it would be appreciated.

ok, part 2.

so in the event that my motherboard did in fact crash to a state that is unrecoverable, what is the best motherboard for the config i described above (ddr3200 and 2100+ tbred rev b). i suppose i am leaning towards the nf7-raid, but i am also a little disappointed with abit after the at7/kx7-being-incompatible-with-tbredA's fiasco. i was caught neck deep in it until i fried my 2200+, and it was the biggest pain ever. i also have a good friend that has a gigabyte and i think he really likes it as well and have heard good things about it. anyway, suggestions are welcome.

also, as an afterthought, i had two 60 gig 8mb cache drives hooked up in raid0 on the at7. i am gonna be able to transfer that . . . right?

Comments

  • stoopidstoopid Albany, NY New
    edited October 2003
    Your raid should carry over, so long as the next raid controller recognizes the drives as a valid boot device.

    For your next board I will either do Asus or Epox only. I've seen too many Abit boards die an early death, and Gigabyte doesn't instill a ton of confidence in my dollar (neither does Soyo for that matter).

    It does sound like something got pushed a little too far. May be a result of slowly weakening one of those many classic Abit hot-spots/capacitors/ect over its year use, then giving it that final shove into the grave once you expected anything more from it.
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited October 2003
    Normally I would say an Epox mobo :)

    But my Abit NF7-S is humming along nicely at FSB225 with HyperX PC3500.

    If you want to transport your raid you'll need a mobo with an HPT chip. You might try to grab a HPT370/372 Raid card. Or look at the Epox 8KRA2+ (KT600 - HPT372)
  • drowddrowd Texas
    edited October 2003
    ok guys, so here is the deal. unfortunately, i dont have any good answers, but it seems as though the usb ports on my mobo started werking spontaneously. i almost wish it didnt werk anymore because, since i dont know what the problem is, i dont know what to avoid. i know what pushed it over the edge: overclocking and other high performance settings (specifically enabling APIC). but i am afraid that there may be some sort of electrical inconsistancy on my mobo and that it might crash sometime soon. oh well, i will ride it into the ground and hope it lasts at least until my next big purchase in about a year or so (athlon 64 hopefully). anyway, i guess thats about it for this thread. a big thanks especially to nightshade and coaster for helping me out when my mb was down and out. thanks . . .
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