thanks for the heads-up
was out of town for a while and was just checking the deals boards when i got home
there was one left - got email confirmation for what it's worth :)
i just put a tbred a 1800+ in mine
getting 10.5x185 running mixed pc2700/3200
1.85v cpu
2.9 v dimm
expert
optimal cpu interface
8x agp off
spread spec off
8-3-3-2.5 mem timings
you have to enable boot from scsi to boot from the promise - you should just be able to slap a hd on the promise and either do a clean install or ghost it. i am running me/2k on 2 hdds on an ata66 controller - no apparent issues. cd roms, etc. on the mobo controller
your power switch has to be hooked up for the board to fire off - the 4 sec is just what the board does when you add power with power switch off - try switching the jbat jumper to power up completely - but that power switch has to be hooked up or shorted - just did this today on mine !
gave one to the wife for xmas - it's decent - picked up one for the kids yesterday at the bm in charles town wv - they had a bunch - list 139.99 - rebate minus whatever bm coupons you have - monitor is no longer on web site but you can still print rebate
I have one of these sitting in my office now - bought it for the wife's puter - you also get a free 5" portable tv if you ask for it - the info is either here in the earlier thread or at fw - for $60 bux you can't beat this -
i've got the same rig with a duron 700 and a tbird 650 that i'm playing with. after i lock it up trying to oc, it comes back as a 500 mhz cpu about half the time - then i just change it to whatever and no more probs. my duron @ 950 idles at 27 and goes to about 36 under load the tbird is a...
I had an elsa erazor which was very fussy about any other drivers on the hd - got tired of playing and went around the prob with pwerstrip or whatever the video utility is called and was able to do whatever i needed to do
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