My Abit BH6 died after 10 years after I tried for "one more upgrade" and put in a PNY nVidia 5500 video card (AGP 2x compliant) that I believe drew too much current on top of the 1.3g Tulatin. Still ran great until then with Maxtor Ultra 133 ATA adapter.
Jan 1999-May 2009 RIP
I am still running a BH6 with Tulatin Cel 1.3gz, 768mb ram, win2k and a ATA controller for the HD. 9 years and runs great for web and general use. When I built it I used a Cel 300a @ 450mz that was the hot OC at the time; I hoped it would be useful for 5 years but here it is at 9. If you want to...
Need service manual to open case & try cpu upgrade on wife's Black Friday 2005 special. Current cel m370 with ATI 200 chipset; bought Pentium M 1.7g both same socket 478. Did not find Toshiba website user friendly as to service info and do not want to use force to separate case.
Online shipping centers usually have the freshest stock in the region so whatever the manufacturer is currently shipping is what you are likely to get.
Saturday 11-30 9:30AM: 4 in stock at 9:30 when I left (there were 5 but I got mine). Price now $144.95 - $55.00 rebate = $89.00.
this was at Bb in Secaucus, NJ.
BTW: I was there yesterday at 6AM & they were out. I only saw 3 of them in anyone's hands.
Success! I went to the Fifth Ave store in NY,NY with a 80mb, 540mb & 1.2gb. I was sent to the Customer Service desk when I asked about trade-in's at the door. The rep sent me to the tech line. He told me the 80mb (WD Caviar 280, October '91) was worthless and said it would not qualify. I agreed...
Thanks to Gaard for clearing up Maxtor codes. J6L3= Ball Bearing, L6L3= Fluid. [ Mine are BB :(]
D740x-6L in Totowa, N.J. 11AM ( 1 hour after opening & they had plenty left).
!!Front of boxes that had ATA-133 sticker had 1 year warranty sticker and boxes without ATA-133 sticker said 3 year...
I have a PC Chips M812LMR etc (all in one SIS 730 chip- display,soundnlan,modem) that has been great. I have a 750 Duron running XP & 256mg RAM. It limits you to SDRAM & only accepts Athlons to 1.2g on a 200mz bus.
got it from www.wiredzone.com. They are getting hard to get.
PS- I use it as a...
Can't get ATA100 Maxtor out of PIO mode in Win XP, cd is not always detected, & it often boots to bios setup "...due to CPU changes"(Duron 1000 not oc'd). Any experience?
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