Tyan S2460 mobo?

[Karifan]

Looking to get this mobo here, I have heard that locking the L5 bridge on a regular XP would do the trick for SMP.
Is this effective?
As far as my XP1900++, its gone I think along with the 1600++
not sure if its the Cheepo bios or something else, but both my K7S5A mobos do not work no more.
Granted I only overrode the bios on one of them.
All the pc does is, runs without booting.
I did get it to run for 3 tries, but I might have tried too much fsb speed, I went upto 148 then to 150 and right after that the pc shut off.
Could this have fried my cpu?
Anyways, how much of a chance would I have locking the L5 bridge and running successfully with dual XP2000 as opposed to dual MP2000?
one more q, do you think there is any prospect for o/c a Athlon Thunderbird on a K7SEM with 320 mb of PC133?
I tried using CPUFSB, but the program does not have this board listed.

thx for your prompt reply

[zypha]

I was over clocking my soyo kt333 and set the fsb to 150 too and didn't boot up either just black screen, then i shorted the bios out
let it sit for 10 seconds then restarted the machine and presto it came back to life.

[Karifan]

Trust me, I've shorted the bios and let it sit for more than 10 mins at a time, I have two cases that have the same mobo, with different chips(Sis730 and ML830) if I got them correct in the ().
I am almost sure they are done.
I'll be doing further testing on them.
right now I am looking on pricewatch.com and the mobo and cpus look very nice lol
Any advise?

thx again

[Karifan]

Anyway, I went with the ASUS A7M266DL and two Athlon MP 1900++ for a total of 566$ including 2nd day shipping to work.

If anyone has experience with this mobo, let me know what you think, I might still have enough time to cancel.

I just did LOTSSSSS of searching regarding all the dual athlon mp mobos and came up with this one being more flexible, it will use 2 gig of unbuffered mem or 4 gig of registered ecc. I'll start with using my existing 2 sticks of non ecc 256 ddr pc2100.

I will also start with my existing 300 power supply till I can afford to upgrade it.

Later on the 1 Gig of ECC ram and the 4 x30 7200 gig Raid 5 configuration.

I am not intending to o/c the processors, but will be playing with the fsb speed, maybe crank it up just a bit, but that will only happen after I get the power supply.

Oh and the video card would be an Sis315 with 64 mb @ 200mhz.
u think this will work?

Any advise is greatly appreciated.

[Karifan]

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