Upgrade from a P4P800?

[jgbishop]

My personal machine currently uses an ASUS P4P800 motherboard, and I occasionally have some boot up problems that I think are motherboard related (the system speaker will beep at me every now and again). I'm planning on rebuilding my OS here in the next few months, so I'm thinking about upgrading my motherboard at the same time. But here is my problem:

I want to keep my current processor (Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz), memory (1024 MB of Crucial PC3200 DDR), and video card (ATI Radeon 9700 Pro). I also want Serial ATA hard drive support (I plan to go to that form when I rebuild my OS), but legacy IDE support would be great.

Is there another product out there that would meet this criteria? I haven't looked at motherboards in a long time, so I'm really out of the loop. An ASUS product would be fine - this mobo is the first one I've owned that's given me trouble.

Also, do any mobos support both PCI Express and AGP (to make the transition)? Or is it one type only?

 

[bim27142]

Originally posted by: jgbishop
My personal machine currently uses an ASUS P4P800 motherboard, and I occasionally have some boot up problems that I think are motherboard related (the system speaker will beep at me every now and again). I'm planning on rebuilding my OS here in the next few months, so I'm thinking about upgrading my motherboard at the same time. But here is my problem:

- P4P800 runs on intel 848 chipset right? do you happen to have the latest chipset utility software installed? rebuilding OS means you'll reformat(then clean install)??

I want to keep my current processor (Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz), memory (1024 MB of Crucial PC3200 DDR), and video card (ATI Radeon 9700 Pro). I also want Serial ATA hard drive support (I plan to go to that form when I rebuild my OS), but legacy IDE support would be great.

- these stuff are still good, keep them and save some for other worthwhile upgrades...

Is there another product out there that would meet this criteria? I haven't looked at motherboards in a long time, so I'm really out of the loop. An ASUS product would be fine - this mobo is the first one I've owned that's given me trouble.

- ASUS mobos are great...stable, reliable, OC potentials...

Also, do any mobos support both PCI Express and AGP (to make the transition)? Or is it one type only?

yes, there are a couple of them already out in the market.. i think ECS have it...

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[imported_michaelpatrick33]

Originally posted by: bim27142

Originally posted by: jgbishop
My personal machine currently uses an ASUS P4P800 motherboard, and I occasionally have some boot up problems that I think are motherboard related (the system speaker will beep at me every now and again). I'm planning on rebuilding my OS here in the next few months, so I'm thinking about upgrading my motherboard at the same time. But here is my problem:

- P4P800 runs on intel 848 chipset right? do you happen to have the latest chipset utility software installed? rebuilding OS means you'll reformat(then clean install)??

I want to keep my current processor (Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz), memory (1024 MB of Crucial PC3200 DDR), and video card (ATI Radeon 9700 Pro). I also want Serial ATA hard drive support (I plan to go to that form when I rebuild my OS), but legacy IDE support would be great.

- these stuff are still good, keep them and save some for other worthwhile upgrades...

Is there another product out there that would meet this criteria? I haven't looked at motherboards in a long time, so I'm really out of the loop. An ASUS product would be fine - this mobo is the first one I've owned that's given me trouble.

- ASUS mobos are great...stable, reliable, OC potentials...

Also, do any mobos support both PCI Express and AGP (to make the transition)? Or is it one type only?

yes, there are a couple of them already out in the market.. i think ECS have it...

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The problem is that the AGP is running off the PCI bus (not the PCI-ex bus and not its own bus) and the bandwidth cripples performance so it is not much better than a PCI (not PCI-ex) video card.

 

[bim27142]

better yet, stick to AGP...there are still a lot of high end AGP video cards out there that are quite enough to even the most demanding games, still have plenty of head room...also, PCIe is not that mainstream to dethrone AGP, well not just yet i guess...

 

[jgbishop]

Thanks guys - I guess I'll stay with AGP for now.

What motherboards are recommended then?

 

[Tom]

Is your p4p800 under warranty ? Don't forget that if you bought it with certain credit cards sometimes you have an automatic extended warranty too.

 

[bim27142]

your P4P800 already rocks men?! if its a warranty issue then try to settle out that... but should you want you really change mobos, get a P4C800 from Asus, this one's really legendary... comes with intel's 875 chipset, the best one there is for desktop based chipset of intel prior to 915s/925s...