John W. Colby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon Jan 3 05:58:22 CST 2005
Jim, In case you haven't found it: http://msihq.designlab.info/board.php?boardid=28 This is the MSI forum for their 64 bit boards. I think that the board will work with 4gb, it just needs specific memory dimms. I do not have that board however; I have the Neo platinum which is the 754 pin version. BTW, the memory controller is now in the Athlon64 chip itself which removes the problem from the northbridge (in fact the northbridge disappears entirely). There are still potential issues of wire routing on the board but these are usually handled pretty well and don't cause problems. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of James Moss Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 12:43 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] SATA drive Jon, Some of the newer power supplies do have SATA power cables. Western Digital SATA drives have both styles of power receptacles built into the drive or at least the 37 gig Raptors do. That's the only SATA drive that I've worked with. I've ordered parts for a new system with 4 of the 74 gig Raptors and hope that they have 4 pin connectors. While on the subject has anyone had experience with the MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinum board and 4 gb of ram? I was reading that the board would not give you the full 4 gigs due to chipset design and wondered how much of the ram would be usable. I had also read that systems with 4 gigs or ram might not be stable. Any comments appreciated. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 5:38 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] SATA drive Ah, I've seen those, but didn't know what they were for... might have been an idea if they'd given us that cable with the motherboard though... Thanks James Jon -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of James Moss Sent: 02 January 2005 22:12 To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] SATA drive You have to give the drive some power. If the power supply doesn't have SATA power cables, you will need to get a SATA to 4 pin converter cable. Check out this link http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=12-104-652&depa=0 -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 3:58 PM To: Dba-Tech Subject: [dba-Tech] SATA drive My dad and I were putting his new pc together earlier, and having persuaded him to get a Maxtor Diamondmax 10 SATA hard drive, cos they're ultra reliable and really fast, we've found that we can't make it work... I've got the red SATA cable, and that's plugged in ok, but what else do I have to do? BIOS can't see the drive, it doesn't feel like it's moving, and although the pc will boot off the WinXP cd, it can't find anywhere to install it... The back of the drive has a smallish pci type connector that looks like it should plug into something, but that the the SATA socket are the only places to plug things into, and there's nothing to plug into this... There are no other cables, there's nowhere to plug a power cable in (that's obvious as a power supply), what have we missed? I'm completely at a loss here, and I don't like that :-) Jon _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- This email has been verified as Virus free Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com