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Re: 845 Family Chipset questions

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:04:12 GMT

Hi Cyndi,

The problems of older motherboards not supporting larger hard disk drives is more likely to be a BIOS level problem than anything at an operating system or driver level. Suggest you download and install the latest BIOS available for your motherboard first, then simply attach the second drive to your system and see how the operating system views it. I think the maximum volume size recognisable by XP is ~2 TB, so a 500GB should be no drama..... if the BIOS will let you that is.

Davo.

Re: Intel Socket 775

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:53:01 GMT

Hey there QT.

We also used to use many of the ASUS motherboards, but can now get Intel units for the "right price", so no longer use the ASUS units. I asume you are wanting a smilar motherboard so as not to have to relaod the operating system & security applications ? (Let me guess, the client no longer has any installation media, and the security company is long gone?)

We have most recently been using the DQ38J series to replace failed LGA775 series ASUS motherboards. The chipsets (apart from VIA based units) appear to be similar enough that the PC will at least boot and an operating system repair can be performed from there.

Good Luck,

Davo.

Later Intel Chipsets vs Crossfire

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:41:06 GMT

Hi All,

I'm posting here (at Intel) in the hope I am not the only one trying to get ATI Crossfire to work on the X38/48 Chipset. I am an IT professional of some 20+ years experience and one would hope by now that I have the process of PC assembly down-pat. Build-Spec follows;

Intel DX48BT2 "Bonetrail 2" with BIOS revision "BTX3810J.86A.1893" (A DX38BT BIOS in fact)

Intel QX9650 (Quad Xeon @ 3.0 GHz)

8GB (4 x 2GB) DDR3 1333 MHz DRAM

{and here's the kicker} 2 x ASUS EAH4870/HDTI/512M/A VGA Cards

1200 Watt PSU.

Now nothing is overclocked in any way... all stock as it came out of the box, with the exception of a BIOS update to the Motherboard. I cannot for the life of me get this rig to recognize that Crossfire even exists, let alone enable it.

Is there perhaps some sort of compatibility problem with the X38/48 Chipset and these later Graphics cards. I've scoured all the relevant discussion groups that I could find, but unfortunately many of them are clouded with Hard-Core Gamers who simply rant-on about how much they've been able to overclock something. I was kind-of hoping to get some opinions / feedback from some IT professionals who have had similar experiences.

Over to the Community.......

Davo.