On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:40:45PM -0500, Kevin R. Bullock wrote: > Hey all -- > > When I got home from dinner last night, I tried to wake my computer up (I > had left it asleep), to no avail. I hit the reset switch. Nothing. I held > in the ATX power switch on the front for four seconds. It didn't turn off. > > I figure, okay, it got stuck in sleep mode. So I turned the hard power > switch on the back of the case off, then on again. Then I hit the power > switch on the front again to turn the computer back on. > > Nothing. Sh*t. > > So I'm guessing my motherboard is fried. Does this sound reasonable? (I > have another board laying around so I can check, but I'm out of town > right now.) > > If my board is indeed fried and I can't RMA it, I'm planning on > replacing it with a Thunderbird (not a very fast one though, I'm saving > up for an iBook). Any recommendations for a good Athlon mobo? I'm > looking for a non-DDR board (don't want to buy new memory). > > So far I'm considering an EPoX 8KTA or an ASUS A7V (or another of either > series, e.g. 8KTA2 or A7V133). > > What's the difference between the VIA KT133 and the KT133A? 1. 100 MHz FSB vs 133 MHz FSB (KT133A) 2. ATA-66 vs ATA-100 (KT133A) florin -- "If it's not broken, is because you are not fixing it enough." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4