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To: Chris who wrote (22890)	4/22/2000 9:12:00 PM
From: Robert Graham	Read Replies (1) of 42787

I finally have my PC up and running. After upgrading to a 600 Mhz Pentium III which involved a motherboard replacement, my registery was damaged. Looks like the latest and greatest driver for the motherboard has a bug in it. I even updated the BIOS and ended up with the same problem. But I am hoping the BIOS update will solve the system stability issues I was originally trying to fix. I was told this was a stable board by the local computer store who apparently builds PCs for other business. I figure if they use this board, then they should know of its problems. This is usually the case based on my experience. But I think this store goofed. Time will tell. The board is a DFI PA61 supporting 133 Mhz FSB. This combination is about 40% to 50% faster than what I had running with a AMD K2-2 500 Mhz chip with its FSB running at 100 Mhz on a Chaintech board. A very noticeable difference so far in system performance. But Monday with everything up and running will tell all. Total cost of upgrade is about $800, including the CPU, motherboard, a new PC box with ATX power supply, 256 MBytes PC-133 SDRAM memory, and Windows 98 Second Edition. I gave the original PC-100 memory in three 64M chips and the AMD 500 Mhz CPU to my parents. They are happy, particularly now that I have their sound card working. I hope this system upgrade which cost some $$ will now be able to support Tradestation and QCharts on the same CPU. Tradestation is the biggest pig with two programs running at the same time garnering allot of CPU cycles, with one spiking the CPU allot. QCharts is no lightweight either. For those thinking of doing the same thing, the Slot 1 Pentium III is a different class of processor compared with the K2-2 and possibly even the discontinued K2-3's. The Athelon by AMD is apparently the fastest by 20% in some operations over the Pentium III, and costs about the same as the Pentium III, but it still is a very new Slot A type processor. This means that the available motherboards may not have been thoroughly debugged yet. I have been through that "bleeding edge" of motherboard replacements before not wanting to go through that experience again. And one thing I did not need is related system stability issues. This is the problem I had tried to avoid. Oh well! :-) Now I need to install my applications! :-) Bob Graham

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