So I inherited a broken socket A system

[JSSheridan]

Last weekend, a buddy brought in his broken system and gave it to me. Right on, a free fixer-upper for me. It was never stable for him, so I determined it was the MB after a weekend of tinkering. Here are the specs of the system.

Barton core Athlon XP 2600+
FSB ???. Did the 2600+ come in a 400 FSB? I haven't seen the code on the CPU. It was purchased in mid '03.
MSI K7N2 Delta-L
1 GB of DDR 400 Kingston HyperX
Radeon 9800 Pro
Antec Truepower 380

I think that's everything. Another friend has an old Epox EP8KHA motherboard around he's not using. Link to the board Would the Epox work with the Barton 2600+? It supported the 2600+ T-Bred, but it's only a 266 FSB chipset, the KT266. Should I get a different MB instead, and are there any good S-462 mb's in stock anywhere? I'm planning on using it as a Linux system if I get it working, and I'm not going to be overclocking. Thanks for your opinions.

 

[myocardia]

All Barton cores (except the mobile versions) have a 166 Mhz FSB. And if you want to buy a Socket A motherboard, you're likely going to have to buy a used one. Here's a good place to start looking. I see Socket A boards in there all the time.

 

[Sdiver2489]

Originally posted by: myocardia
All Barton cores (except the mobile versions) have a 166 Mhz FSB. And if you want to buy a Socket A motherboard, you're likely going to have to buy a used one. Here's a good place to start looking. I see Socket A boards in there all the time.

The last generation of them were bumped up to 400Mhz FSB but I don't believe the 2600+ was ever produced with that. The rest had 333MHz FSB

 

[SparkyJJO]

2600+ barton was 333MHz FSB (166MHz x2). The 3200+ and up was 400MHz FSB. I think there might have been some older T-bred 2600+ CPUs that were 266MHz FSB, which is what that epox that the OP linked to supports. It wouldn't take the barton well though.

 

[ForumMaster]

well, even if the Athlon XP architechture was never designed to be run at 200Mhz FSB, i've been running it every since i got my Athlon XP-M 2400+. rock solid at 200x11.

 

[pradeep1]

I've purchased over 20 Socket A mobos, cpus, etc. from the FS/FT forums.

That forum is a great resource to pick up cheap stuff. You can expect to find a suitable mobo for around $20-25 shipped.

 

[bob4432]

that is a decent rig. hell, see if you can rma the m/b - the most msi can say is no.

are you sure it is a barton? have you run cpu-z on it?

i think there were also 400MHz 3000s too, but can't remember for sure. either the fs/ft forum her or over at 2cpu.com = excellent deals. between the 2 have saved me thousands of $$$ throughout the years

asus had a kick ass m/b for the skt a stuff, like a a7n8x or soemthing like that....

 

[Puffnstuff]

I've got a brand new AOPEN AK79D MAX400 NFORCE2-D RTL mb http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/AK79D/ that I've had sitting in a drawer. Yes I bought it new and never used it and only opened the box up to confirm that all of its contents were present. I had one go bad and bought a new abit nf7-s to replace it with and when this came back I didn't need it so I put it in a drawer where it has sat ever since. I live in Jacksonville, FL so if you are interested PM me.