I need a new mobo

[alirob24]

I have a AM37 motherboard (from my compaq presario 6400 series piece of crap) sorry, I had the cpu and memory tested and they were good the guy at the pc shop said the mobo was no good.
the cpu is an AMD Athlon XP 1.8GHz can anyone tell me which mobo I can use in place of this AM37, it is a pentium 4 AMD Athlon XP 1.8 GHz ... Thanks

 

[mechBgon]

It could be tricky replacing the motherboard in a Compaq. Some are proprietary, and you're guaranteed to at least have a battle royal with the case's button/LED wiring not matching the new motherboard's pinout. Beyond that, a new motherboard is probably going to make your Compaq Restore CD's freak out in the most exciting ways :Q

If you want my advice, consider building from scratch using industry-standard parts. I've made it pretty easy... see the link in my signature.

 

[johnjkr1]

Did you try giving compaq a call, it might still be under warranty. Also,

"pentium 4 AMD Athlon XP 1.8 GHz" is not a cpu. It is just an AMD Athlon XP.

 

[Grimmett]

If you want to try another motherboard for you Athlon XP, Id go for either Abit, Asus, or Leadtek. But, like they said, you would need a Windows disk because the Compaq restore disk wont work.

 

[alirob24]

I bought A new ATX tower with a 400 watt power supply, All I need now is a mobo to go with my Athlon XP (1.8Giga HTz) I also will use my windows 98 SE until i can buy either windows ME, 2000,or XP which ever I decide is the best for my use.... Thanks for any help

 

[mechBgon]

You might want to grab a Shuttle MN31N motherboard if you don't have an add-in video card. It has an integrated dual-head GeForce4MX video card as well as an AGP 8X slot for upgradeability. Looking up a Presario 6400NX, I see they use DDR PC2100 memory modules, so that should work fine in the Shuttle along with your existing heatsink/fan unit.

Be aware that you'll need some good-quality thermal grease (Coolermaster/Shin-Etsu or one of the Arctic Silver lineup are good) when you reinstall your heatsink/fan unit. Be sure to scrape off all traces of the used-up phase-change thermal patch on the bottom of the heatsink before applying the thermal grease and reinstalling it.

 

[alirob24]

how about a SHUTTLE MK20V12 SOCKET A motherboard specs are:

CPU Support: Socket A CPU AMD Athlon/Duron CPU with 200MHz/266Mhz FSB Chipsets: VIA KLE1336 (North bridge) VIA VT8361 High Performance Athlon CPU Interface Internal Accelerated Gr0raphics Port (AGP) Controller Concurrent PCI Bus Controller Advanced High-Performance DRAM Controller (South bridge) VIA VT82C686B UDMA 33/66/100 IDE interface USB interface AC97 Controller Integrated Super I/O controller Integrated hardware monitoring controller Power management meet ACPI requirement RTC Form Factor Micro-ATX Front Side Bus Including 100/103/105/110/112/120/124/133/140/150 MHz Power Controller: Single Phase VRM9.0 compliant PWM Richtek 9224C Memory: 2 x 168-pin DIMM DIMM x 2

Up to 1GB of PC100 /PC133 SDRAM Graphics Built in Trident AGP controller Audio VIA Audio driver with AC 97 compliant CODEC Ethernet (optional) On board Realtek 8139C IEEE 802.3u 100Base-T specifications compliant 10 Mb/s and 100 Mb/s operation Supports Wake-On-LAN function Expansion Slot PCI: 3 PCI slots, PCI 2.2 compliant Support 32 bit PCI master mode device 133 Mbyte/sec Maximum Throughput ISA: 1 ISA slot Support 16 bit ISA mode device I/O: Built in VIA VT82C686B Support 2 UARTs for Complete Serial Ports Support 1 IR port Support 1 Multi-mode parallel port Support 1 Floppy Disk Controller Support PS2 keyboard and mouse IDE: Built in VT82C686B Dual channel master mode PCI supporting four Enhanced IDE devices Transfer rate up to 33MB/sec to cover PIO mode 4, multi-word DMA mode 2 drives, and UltraDMA-33 interface and increased reliability using UltraDMA-66/100 transfer protocols On board 2 IDE port H/W Monitor: Built in VIA686B Five positive voltage (one internal), three temperature (one internal) and two fan-speed monitoring Programmable control, status, monitor and alarm for flexible desktop management External thermister or internal bandgap temperature sensing Automatic clock throttling with integrated temperature sensing Internal core VCC voltage sensing Flexible external voltage sensing arrangement (any positive supply and battery) Power Management ACPI v1.0 Compliant APM v1.2 Compliant Bios: Built in 2Mb Flash ROM Award PnP BIOS DMI 2.3 Bios FSB and Multiplier setting Bootable from LS120, ZIP drive, CD-ROM, SCSI On Board Ports / Connectors / Jumpers / Headers (front/back panel) Ports: 2 x IDE 1 x Floppy Back Panel Connectors 1 x PS/2 Keyboard 1 x PS/2 Mouse 2 x USB 1 x RJ45 Ethernet with built in transformer (optional) 1 x VGA 1 x COM 1 1 x Parallel 1 x Game Port 1 x Line_In, Lin_out, Mic_in On Board Jumpers Clear CMOS On Board Connectors 1 x COM 2 On Board Headers 2 x USB 3 x FAN Front Panel Audio Ear_out, Mic_in Wake On Lan IR header Front Panel for Power_LED, Power_On, Speaker, Reset, IDE_LED Intrusion detect System temperature detect with fixed sensor

 

[mechBgon]

No, because

1) the performance of a KLE133-based motherboard will be relatively poor
2) it may not support your AthlonXP CPU
3) it does not take the type of memory modules you've got.

If the Shuttle MN31N is too much money for you, consider the Asus A7N266-VM/AA.

 

[alirob24]

Ok , I am very grateful for the info...I am trying to learn as much as I can about all of this so i can be more helpful to myself..... The price seemed to be pretty good for the Shuttle MN31N motherboard ,
I just want to make sure I get the best deal I can...OK I AM Being Cheap but I already lost money on this PC and I would like to feel like I got a good deal somehow with it... I will check out the Asus A7N266-VM/AA...By the way I checked out your website for first time builders and I must say it was very nice..Keep up the good work my friend...

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: alirob24
Ok , I am very grateful for the info...I am trying to learn as much as I can about all of this so i can be more helpful to myself..... The price seemed to be pretty good for the Shuttle MN31N motherboard ,
I just want to make sure I get the best deal I can...OK I AM Being Cheap but I already lost money on this PC and I would like to feel like I got a good deal somehow with it... I will check out the Asus A7N266-VM/AA...By the way I checked out your website for first time builders and I must say it was very nice..Keep up the good work my friend...

Thanks for the compliment 🙂 I'm about to upload the new-&-improved version, so it'll be offline for about 1-2 hours (I'm on dial-up) and then it'll be better! 😀