NT 4.0 and 800 FSB

#1 Anlesauk

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Posted 21 April 2005 - 11:15 PM

Any idea if NT 4.0 will run on a new Asus 800 MHz FSB dual Xeon Nocona board with 2 Nocona 3.0 GHz CPUs?

#2 jmmijo

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Posted 21 April 2005 - 11:55 PM

Nope, I have no idea without really trying it out. My thinking is that NT4 will not properly support the extra features and functionality of both the motherboard chipset and the cpu.

I however would not see any reason why it wouldn't at least attempt to install, but I could see that NT4 would not see 4 cpu's, i.e., two physical and two virtual cpu's but only see the two physical cpu's

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Posted 22 April 2005 - 12:43 AM

Yeah, Same here, I don't run on windows NT so i woudln't know if it would support an Asus 800 fsb mobo.. because i dont know compatability with that op sys sorry bud.
If i were you id switch to xp pro but you've probably got a reason for using nt

#4 Anlesauk

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Posted 22 April 2005 - 12:59 AM

Yes, I have a professional video capture board and video edit software that is only compatible with NT. The PCI controler on the previous MoBo failed. So I have to find a way to repair it. I want to go to XP, but we can't spend the extra $10,000 it will cost for a new video board and edit software just yet.

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Posted 22 April 2005 - 01:50 AM

So what is the make/model of the old motherboard ?!?

Have you tried locating a used/refurb motherboard to replace the one that just died ?!?

It's also possible that you maybe able to find a suitable sub, in that it may not have to be the same make/model, but rather one that has the same chipset and supports your CPU and memory, etc....