Do any nForce2 boards support Socket A Semprons?

[Steve]

Just wondering. I'm going to upgrade my current motherboard (an M847LU) as its built-in video doesn't support 1920x1200 for my new Dell 2405FPW. I'd like to move over my current CPU (Sempron 2800+) and RAM (2x512MB Nanya PC2700). I have a Radeon 9200 128 AGP handy that'll do the resolution just fine.

One path I could take is to get another SiS board to make migration easy, I think I'd only have to uninstall the video driver first. In fact that's how I got to this board from my old SiS 530 board, I only needed to uninstall the video driver and maybe one other, I can't remember. For this I would go with the M848LU or the Foxconn 748K7AA, cheap and quick'n'easy.

Then I got to thinking about nForce2 which I've never tried, and Soundstorm's reputation. I might be willing to give it a shot if it'll take my current CPU. Did any of their BIOSes get updated to support Semprons?

Obviously I'm not going for gaming or high performance, mostly just menial web tasks with occasional movies, maybe TV someday down the road. What do you suggest?

 

[Peter]

You'll be hard pressed to find one that doesn't. You will quite probably have to run a full OS reinstall though. Using an M848 instead will be the better move.

You didn't inquire at SiS about adding the 1920x1200 resolution?

 

[LED]

Socket 4 Socket all will handle Semprons...@ least with 1 BIOS update

 

[Peter]

Not "all". The other thing you need is 166 MHz CPU bus support.

 

[Steve]

Originally posted by: Peter
You'll be hard pressed to find one that doesn't. You will quite probably have to run a full OS reinstall though. Using an M848 instead will be the better move.

You didn't inquire at SiS about adding the 1920x1200 resolution?

I'd love to, but I have no idea where to begin in terms of contacting them. There's no contact info for their tech support on their page.

If you happen to come up with a way of contacting them, by all means please send a PM.

 

[Peter]

I'd go through "sales contact", and cheekily pretend you have plans to purchase SiS chipset based mainboards to go with those nice big TFT screens you decided upon already ... but sadly, during evaluation, you found the required resolution unsupported.

Remember, it's an Asian company, so be super ultra friendly, and don't talk about missing function, make it look like a suggestion to make their product even better than you already find it to be

 

[LED]

Remember, it's an Asian company, so be super ultra friendly, and don't talk about missing function, make it look like a suggestion to make their product even better than you already find it to be

LMAO...true Hara Petersama

 

[Peter]

It actually works, y'know ... and you wouldn't believe how a German engineer and an Asian manufacturer can clash purely based on discussion culture - until you saw it happen.

 

[LED]

Trust me I know...and to think many years ago before most peoples time in todays culture that they had plans to rule the world together