I have some old m/bs, I want to keep the best one for my stand-by machine to use when the main PC breaks.
How can I tell which is better? They are both socket 462 and both take 168pin PC133.
Using Norton Systemworks, one says "BIOS: VIA694 - 42302E31 Award Modular BIOS v6.00PGN, 12/06/00" This one does not have a network socket for my broadband. It has AGP, I can't see what version. It currently has an Athlon 1.1 GHz. fitted. I do not have the m/b installation disk or booket but I have installed XP which seems to work (apart from the PCI modem which says it has no dial tone). I see an IC on it with a badge "ATA100"
The booklet for the other m/b says it has SIS 730S and SIS 5513 and is a PCChips M810 (I think an LMR) "the mainboard uses the T-Bird chipset which integrates a 128-bit AGP and 4x AGP slot... firmware Ultra DMA 33/66/100... AC97 Codec...built-in 10BaseT/100BaseTX Network Interface" and I see it has an RJ45 socket. It can accept up to an Athlon XP2100. It has SMART for hard disks. . I have the m/b installation disk which says "PC133". The installation disk has directories called "SIS630" "SIS7018" "SIS635" and VIA. It has an AMR riser and I have a modem to fit it.
How can I tell which is better? They are both socket 462 and both take 168pin PC133.
Using Norton Systemworks, one says "BIOS: VIA694 - 42302E31 Award Modular BIOS v6.00PGN, 12/06/00" This one does not have a network socket for my broadband. It has AGP, I can't see what version. It currently has an Athlon 1.1 GHz. fitted. I do not have the m/b installation disk or booket but I have installed XP which seems to work (apart from the PCI modem which says it has no dial tone). I see an IC on it with a badge "ATA100"
The booklet for the other m/b says it has SIS 730S and SIS 5513 and is a PCChips M810 (I think an LMR) "the mainboard uses the T-Bird chipset which integrates a 128-bit AGP and 4x AGP slot... firmware Ultra DMA 33/66/100... AC97 Codec...built-in 10BaseT/100BaseTX Network Interface" and I see it has an RJ45 socket. It can accept up to an Athlon XP2100. It has SMART for hard disks. . I have the m/b installation disk which says "PC133". The installation disk has directories called "SIS630" "SIS7018" "SIS635" and VIA. It has an AMR riser and I have a modem to fit it.
