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I've been using Win XP professional for about a week. A few days ago I noticed that it would just shut down for no reason. For example, I was typing up an essay, then the screen turned black without notice (the monitor light blinked yellow) and the HD light was solid red and the green power...

MSI K7T Pro 2-a Smooth as silk

Yeah...the Permatex brand defogger liquid comes in a tiny little bottle. For best results use a toothpick to apply the liquid to the L1 bridges. It's a real pain but you'll get it eventually. Don't worrry if you screew up, just have some nail polish remover and a Q-tip handy and rub it out...

Lets see here... 1)i286 2)i386 SX 3)Cyrix P-120 @ 133 4)Celeron 400 @ 500 5)PII 400 @ 500 6)AMD Duron 800 @ 952 Ta-da!

Save your money, upgrading to the KT133a will only give you a minor boost...better off saving your only on the next gen video cards (Radeon 2, Geforce 3) if your a gamer!! My Splendid Rig: MSI K7T Pro 2-A Motherboard AMD Duron 800 @ 950Mhz w/ Chrome Orb Cooler 256 mb Micron / Hyundai PC-133...

Hi. I have an old ALI Socket 7 mb w/ a Pentium 200MMX CPU. The board accepts PC66 Ram and I want to put an additional 128mb in that system. My question is, can I use PC100 or 133 ram?? PC66 is hard to find and is expensive. Will it run properly?? Thanks!!

Just hold down on the INSERT key then start up your system...this will override the changes you made in the bios and boot to the defaults. My Splendid Rig: MSI K7T Pro 2-A Motherboard AMD Duron 800 @ 950Mhz w/ Chrome Orb Cooler 256 mb Micron / Hyundai PC-133 SDRAM ATI Radeon 64MB DDR (7078...

I would suggest the MSI K7T Pro 2-A. It is a highend board, but costs about $30-40 less than an Abit or Asus board. My Splendid Rig: MSI K7T Pro 2-A Motherboard AMD Duron 800 @ 950Mhz w/ Chrome Orb Cooler 256 mb Micron / Hyundai PC-133 SDRAM ATI Radeon 64MB DDR (7072 drivers) SB Live Value...

Got my old PII 400 to run perfectly for months at 500 on an ASUS P2B. Increased the FSB to 124! I used a better than average HSF (Cooler Master) nothing special.

YES!! PII 400 was made to fit SECC II HSF combos. I think they started making SECC II PII's after the 35Mhz model.

Of course it causes cancer...everything causes cancer. In fact I heard owning a Cyrix CPU and running it for 12 or more hours releases cancerous radiation.........so dont by a Cyrix CPU!!

I had a Pii 400 on an Asus p2b board. I got it stable up to 496Mhz with a better than average HSF from cooler master...its not great but better than a retail HSF! All I did was change the FSB to 124, since the PII is multiplier locked you cant do anything about it. Good luck! My Splendid Rig...

I could not agree more. I to am a first time AMD user (Duron 800@900) and I could not be happier. My last PC was an PII 400 and the one before that was a Cyrix 6x86 (P.O.S)! Anyway, enjoy!! My Splendid Rig: MSI K7T Pro 2-A Motherboard AMD Duron 800 @ 900 w/ Chrome Orb Cooler 256 mb Micron /...

So far sounding good. How are you going to unlock the L1 Bridges...Pencil...Conductive pen etc. I used a pencil with my Duron 800 and it is running sweet @ 950, although in the future I will invest in a better method. You should sell the chrome orb on one of those online auctions.

Yeah definately! AMD are playing with the big boys now. If anyone is worrying about AGP video card compatibility issues, the VIA 4-in-1 drivers should clear them up. Heck, I have an ATI Radeon 64 DDR Engineering Sample board which runs perfectly fine on my MSI K7T Pro 2-a. Go AMD!! My Splendid...