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I have had a pair of BP6's going for 4 years & a third one for 1.5 years. When USB 2.0 first arrived, I was an early adopter , using "off-brand" affordable cards. I had nothing but trouble with these - and with a USB wireless LAN adapter on 2 systems, plus USB keyboard/mouse setups added to the pict...

MS is blaming Sun for having to do this now, because of the Sun lawsuit that MS lost forcing them to stop using the MS-tweaked java code they previously embeded in these older products. So, MS says: if we can't f___ with the java code - then we'll just retire the products, and to hell with everyone ...

I've had good results with the cheap ($30-40US) Dual P3 ACORP 6A815EPD board so far. Onboard Promise Fasttrak-Lite is great too. I could not get the Tualatins to run at 133MHz though, becasue I did not know about the Lin-Lin jumpers #8 & #9. Instead I'm using dual P-III/1100E/256/100 @115FSB. I want...

As I said earlier, I had nothing but trouble with the off-brand cards.
They are stacked in my basement.
Once I got the Adaptec card, all my troubles cleared up.
The slot you use can also make a big difference.
Have you tried shifting?

JohnA - you should weigh carefully your decision to choose the BP6 as your board for the Maxed-Out Dually project. I built (2) BP6 systems exactly (4) years ago & later built a 3rd one. My goal was to continue upgrading them as long as possible to let them keep up with new O/S demands etc. It sounds...

The SOLID (brand) Multimedia Case (see my gallery shot)==> http://www.bp6.com/board/album_pic.php?pic_id=360 -online at Directron.com I'll post new close-ups of "stealth cover" Case comes with (2) special bay covers that have easy-open, hinged-doors that give the same end result. By using special 5....

Having built & supported PC systems for nearly 15 years now, it is interesting to note how the fortunes & reputations of the various drive manufacturers has changed over time. I see lowest % fails on Maxtor recently. First it was Seagate all alone at the top. WD, Maxtor, Micropolis trying to get som...

Well, kuun, the price was good enough. I agree that the odds for decent quality in a drive are much better with SCSI - hopefully by at least the same factor as the higher price. Perhaps I should consider going with a 2+2 striped/mirrored RAID array if all the Maxtor stories art true. Only cost me $1...

What is the point of investing fresh new time in tired old surplus drves? If those clunkers are as old as they look, I hope they came free. I just got a new pair of Maxtor 80GB/7200/8MB drives for just over $50 Ea. - now they may not keep up with SCSI in a loaded multi-user/tasking senario, but they...

Best bang for the buck is to DUMP the BP6. Fast P-III CPUs cost too much & getting them to work on BP6 is too uncertain. Get a good brand Dual-Athlon board - if you can find one with RAID+ USB2 you will be way ahead. I used an ACORP 6A815EP Dual-P3 to replace my dead BP6 - has RAID - $40 This let me...

Your chance of success is slim at best - after doing a lot of work on the board. Many who were able to get dual P-III/850 failed at dual 1.0GHz or faster. The CPU power load of the dual P-IIIs seems to exceed what the BP6 can stabily deliver. Do you have the (2) P-III/1000 CPUs already?

I'm using RU BIOS v.1.25 with P-III microcode by Ron to allow the Adaptec USB2 Connect 3100LP card to work.

I have tried several & then dumped them all in favor of the Adaptec brand. It works & the bundled S/W is extremely useful - it scans all USB devices to present a graphic tree layout of what's connected. Clicking an item will give detaols about device. With Win-Xp make sure to get the latest USB driv...

ATI beats Nvidia for highest level gaming now. Code in games using DX9 PixelShader 2.0 have to be recompiled to run decently on the Geforce FX5900 Ultra. Nvidia clearly messed up on this one & benchmarking will not easily compare them accurately anymore at this level. I still prefer Nvidia's unified...

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My weakest BP6 just got demoted to a dedicated phone system host. Picked up a 6-handset CyberGenie 2.4GHz cordles phone system with PC hosted USB central controller. It handles 2-lines with voice mailboxes recording on the PC Hdisk. Will dial from Outlook address book using voice recognition from th...

Forget the fan on the Northbridge - just get the Zalman passive HS. See my picture : http://www.bp6.com/board/album_pic.php?pic_id=365 Notice the Dual P-III 1.266GHz@1.35 cooled with Y.S.Tech 70mm fans on EverCool CUD-725 copper HS. These fans move a lot of air & are quiet. You can use the Zalman Fa...

Use the HPT366 for Read-Only (xxROM) devices only.
Get a Promise ATA100 or ATA133 card for you hdisks.
Life's too short to be usint the HPT for any read-write type of drive.

The case was only $60 w/o power supply.
Had to add the holes for the 120mm fan at base & (2) 80mm @back.
Power supply is "Real PC" brand - 420W and only $20 (I'm still sceptical)

Finall got a group of pics loaded showing the SOLID case Dual Tualatin:

http://www.bp6.com/board/album_personal.php?user_id=25

Yes, heavy gaming with (3) boys ages 11-12-14. also, just got the new JVC GRV95 MiniDV camcorder & digital video editing is happening big time too (burn DVDs). Trying to get the low-light snapshots to show the case lighting better. A really sweet case from Directron.com I could have had more perform...

Just completed my new Dual P-III Tualatin system - MSI 266 Master Pro LR with (2) P3-1.266@1.35GHzFSB/ 1GB=>(2) 512MB Mushkin 2-2-2 PC2700 RAM /Evercool CUD-725 copperHS w/Y.S.Tech 70mm CPU fans; Built in a Solid (brand) multimedia black case with (5) 5-1/4" bays. Promise RAID onboard - Dual Maxtor ...

ts4967, if you are on a BP6, the 112MHZ FSB speed is not an option. The next increment after 110MHZ is 124MHz.

I'll check what I have. I don't know that both will do 550MHz, since one was on a board that could never make it to that high of a FSB speed. They will go to at least 505MHz though. -Rich

The PPGA Celeron-1/533MHz running @66MHz FSB is the fastest chip that Intel produced to match the ABIT CPU specs for the BP6. The best performance using overclocking of the FSB speed will result from the 366MHz version of this Celeron, as these CPUs can usually reach 100MHz FSB speed, giving a CPU c...