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Greg_M

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23rd Oct 05 at 14:20

I have had a case with motherboard and processor in my room for ages and have decided to rebuild it.

I has no CD drive or hard drive and no memory. I dont know what processor it is either, all i can make out is its an Athlon.

With do i need to know about the motherboard to be able to get some memory/CD drive/ Hard drive? or is it better to buy a new motherboard?

John

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23rd Oct 05 at 15:00

Any IDE cd drive and harddrive should fit.
Depending on age it'll be some SD 133 or DDR 2100 most likley memory but take a stick out and go to local computer shop and they'll sell you one of the same type.

Ian

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23rd Oct 05 at 15:14

Yeah probably IDE harddrive and 133 DIMMS but you'll need to get a proper answer before spending money, could you take a pic of the board or something?

Greg_M

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23rd Oct 05 at 16:02

quote:
Originally posted by Ian
Yeah probably IDE harddrive and 133 DIMMS but you'll need to get a proper answer before spending money, could you take a pic of the board or something?

i can do, will that help? there is no memory in there for me to compare

John

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23rd Oct 05 at 16:23

quote:
Originally posted by Greg_M

quote:
Originally posted by Ian
Yeah probably IDE harddrive and 133 DIMMS but you'll need to get a proper answer before spending money, could you take a pic of the board or something?

i can do, will that help? there is no memory in there for me to compare

There has to be memory.
It wouldn't work if there wasn't.
Get a picture.

Greg_M

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23rd Oct 05 at 16:36

it doesnt work at the mo. ill get a pic an post it up

John

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23rd Oct 05 at 16:44

Ahh I get what you mean now.
I thought you had some sort of terminal with no cd etc.

Dan B

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23rd Oct 05 at 17:16

Also, post any codes you can find on the motherboard itself, that should help to identify what it is (and, through that, what kind of memory you'll need to use, etc)...

Greg_M

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24th Oct 05 at 11:58

I cant post up any pics as ive lost my card reader!

but printed on the actual motherboard is
'MS8308ep(266)

and nothing other noticable appart from a big arange chip with Matsonic on it

Ian

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24th Oct 05 at 13:33

http://www.computekinc.us/images/ms8308ep.jpg

Full spec is here

http://carmelcomputer.com/hardware/mainboard/ms8308ep.html

Memory is SDRAM DIMMS at either PC100 or PC133

Drive is IDE Ultra DMA 33, 66 or 100

Ian

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24th Oct 05 at 13:36

More spec here - this one is 266 model

http://www.goos.com/cgi-bin/getdescription.cgi?sid=0000000046&No=25&Id=630

Greg_M

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24th Oct 05 at 14:02

is it worth keeping?

Ian

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24th Oct 05 at 14:12

Yeah not a bad board.

Maybe 25 quid on RAM and maybe 35-40 on the hard drive. Doesn't really need a CD drive as you can borrow one for the install and take it out again - its got LAN on board so you can get other data in that way.

Greg_M

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24th Oct 05 at 14:13

Thank ian, have found some Ram on ebuyer, Shall be ordering. Im presuming its all 168pin?

[Edited on 24-10-2005 by Greg_M]

Ian

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24th Oct 05 at 14:37

yeah 168 pin PC 133

Greg_M

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24th Oct 05 at 14:54