Need new motherboard

[ikei]

We have 3 systems that we use to process information for the FAA. The mobo's are Gigabyte GA-7nnxp using AMD Athlon 2700 CPU's. Yes we know that they are old.

There are much faster units out there, but, working with the government they like to keep OLD programs forever.

Our mobo's have been in service 24/7 since 2004 and are starting to show problems.
The issue we have is that the FAA want to keep the IDE drives, 3 per machine, use a special board for telemetry in two PCI slots and also utilize Windows 2000 Pro.

Motherboards we have looked at only offer one IDE cable for two drives and only a few have PCI slots. SATA drives would be OK but still need IDE for disk and DVD.

Would like to stick with AMD processors, as fast as possible. Also be able to run a dual boot system for 64 and 32 bit programs.

Would appreciate any and all suggestions.

Thanks

 

[theAnimal]

The ECS BLACK SERIES A790GXM-AD3 AM3 Motherboard has 2 IDE ports (4 devices) and 2 PCI slots.

 

[o1die]

Ascendtech.us has 2 fic boards with the nforce 2 chipset for around $20 each, but they only have 2 memory slots. 3btech has an asus A7N8X socket a board with nforce 2 chipset for about $50. It has 3 memory slots. You can also check ebay. Computer geeks has 3 socket a boards, but they use a via chipset. Some newer motherboards don't even have the drivers included for windows 2k pro. It is becoming obsolete.

 

[ikei]

OK, let me rephrase our issues.

We do not game, do high volume number crunching or watch many videos.

Our mobo's are starting to have issues, a reboot will take 4-6 minutes just to get past the bios setup. This is with no drives and using known good video and memory.
We don't want to troubleshoot the boards/bios/cmos. Just get new systems.

Does any manufacturer make mobo's that still have 2 IDE ports, several PCI slots, can run 32 bit Windows 2000 Pro and XP or Vista 64 bit (dual boot) and utilize the newer AMD CPU's.

Is this too much to ask/wish?

Would like recommendations please.

Tnx.

 

[theAnimal]

See above.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: ikei
OK, let me rephrase our issues.

We do not game, do high volume number crunching or watch many videos.

Our mobo's are starting to have issues, a reboot will take 4-6 minutes just to get past the bios setup. This is with no drives and using known good video and memory.
We don't want to troubleshoot the boards/bios/cmos. Just get new systems.

Does any manufacturer make mobo's that still have 2 IDE ports, several PCI slots, can run 32 bit Windows 2000 Pro and XP or Vista 64 bit (dual boot) and utilize the newer AMD CPU's.

I don't know why you are so fixated on AMD CPUs.

You could go with 775dual-VSTA/4CoreDual-VSTA boards, they use a Via chipset, support Core2Duo CPUs (with a FSB of 800/1066), have two IDE ports, more than two PCI slots, and support W2K or XP or whatever. (Win98se even, I think - the Via Hyperion drivers support all Windows OSes.. well, maybe not Windows 7 yet).

As a plus, these boards support both AGP and PCI-E, and both DDR and DDR-2 (not at the same time though).