Wife's Puter finally died....

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 12:04 am

old p3 system BX mobo - lost it's boot sector in win2k (drive was only 8 years old!) making awful clunky sounds - then cpu fan stops working - can't get HD to be recognized anywhere because it is old FAT16 - finally find a win98 hd, throw it in the bx system, and manage to get her WP docs off the old drive, then, just for yucks, hook up the old drive (which wouldn't boot before) - now up jumps a winme partition i'd forgotten about and it starts right up - had to shut it down b/c the cpu was getting too hot

ah, the old days when motherboards were motherboards - BX still my favorite chipset - nforce no. 2

BillyGoat · Post by **BillyGoat** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 9:26 am

yep bx was solid, ran like a raped ape without and 4- in ones or bs

blade · Post by **blade** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 9:53 am

Ah yes, the immortal bx mobo's. So many of us did our first overclocking with one. And who could forget the bh6/300a combo. I still have a combo like that and it still works.

Think I prefer the nforce2 more though. More options. But will they last as long.

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 10:54 am

the nice thing about the ol' bx was that every ms os recognized the chipset and installed the drivers - none of this voodoo you have to do now trying to figure out if you want to use xp drivers or proprietary ones

now all i have to do is dig up something to replace the golden orb on the p3 600 -

TruckStuff · Post by **TruckStuff** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 2:07 pm

And who could forget the bh6/300a combo.

Hehehe, I built my first computer on this platform. Its still kicking too; my sister is using it at college. But I will be building her a replacement over the holidays and retiring this legend. Who knows what use I'll find for it next.

VidmanII · Post by **VidmanII** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 10:43 pm

Moment of silence for a true warrior

(the mobo, not yer wife) :laugh

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 12:52 am

hehe mobo is still ok i think - the cpu who knows used to be able to oc it from 600 to almost 700! not bad for a p3 katmai

Viperoni · Post by **Viperoni** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 9:56 pm

Loved my BP6 + dual 366's @ 550 rig, what a solid, kickarse rig. NEVER should have gotten rid of it.