Well I have my new PC up and running. Had a problem with a bad 1.2 266 Athlon processor but replaced it with a 1.33 266 and everything is working well. I removed the VIO1 jumper to set the voltage for the DDR memory at 2.5 which was recommended by Mushkin. My video card rocks, the resolution is unbelievable compared to my old 4Meg card. :-)
November 11 01- Just upgraded to WinXP and love it so far. Installed a Nic card, and awaiting my new DSL modem and service from Earthlink.
December 24 01- Received my ADSL modem from Earthlink. To my surprise their tech support people were working on Christmas Eve. Got connected and finally the Internet can keep up with my PC. ;-)
March 11 02- Just got back from an hour drive to pick up my new VisionTek Ti 4600 video card. All I can say is it is awesome. I used to get 4000 points from 3dmark 2001, now with the new card I can get over 9100 points. Just a benchmarking program, but it shows the power of my new card. If you want to check out my score here is a link: http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=2980929
May
3 02- flashed my bios using "Bios Savior" from version 1002 to 1007.
Replaced my CPU with a brand new retail XP2100+ processor. Finally got 10639 points on 3DMark2001 SE.
http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=5007390
Case
TruePower
power supply installed ATX12V, 2.03 compliant for
AMD and Intel based systems including Pentium 4.
Front mounted USB & IEEE-1394 (FireWire) ports.
Washable air filter on the front.
Side panel fans (installed) for maximum cooling of video card.
Easy installation with Swing-out side panel, quick release drive cage,
and snap-in fan mounts.
Extra Fans
3 CASE FANS, 80MM
Motherboard
AMD 761 & VIA 686B chipset
2 DDR DIMM; up to 2GB PC2100 DDR-SDRAM
1 AGP Pro (4X), 4 PCI, 1 PCI/AMR shared
Optional 3Com 3C920 10/100Mbps LAN controller
2 serial ports, 1 parallel port,
1 PS/2 mouse and keyboard connector,
2 USB connectors, 1 audio I/O (optional),
1 x Game/MIDI (optional)
1 x RJ-45 (optional)
ATX form factor, Board size: 9.6" x 12"
Processor
Athlon XP2100+ @ 1797
Memory
Two sticks of Crucial/Micron DDR MEMORY-256MB PC2100 DDR
SDRAM Crucial.
Video Card
• Controller: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600
• Bus Type AGP
• Memory 128MB DDR
• Core Clock 300MHz
• Memory Clock 650MHz DDR memory
• RAMDAC 350MHz
• Vertical Refresh See Chart on other side
• API Support Direct-X®, Open GL ICD®
for Windows
• Connectors VGA, DVI, TV In/Out
• 1.23 trillion operations/sec.
• 136 Million triangles/sec setup
• 10.4GB/second memory bandwidth
• AGP 4x compatible with fast writes
• 256-bit 3D and 2D graphics accelerator
• NVIDIA nView™ display technologies
• Lightspeed Memory Architecture™ II
• Accuview Antialiasing™
• High Definition Video Processing Engine
• TV In/Out connectors
• DVI connector
IBM
DeskStar GXP Series
45.0GB
EIDE, 7200RPM, 8.5ms seek time, 2MB cache buffer, U/ATA100
Nic-Card
Linksys EtherFast 10//100 Lan
Card
32-bit professional-grade bus mastering PCI LAN card
Runs with both 10BaseT and 100BaseTX networks
Wake-On-LAN compatible. Includes 3-pin WOL cable
N-Way technology automatically optimizes traffic speed
Windows 95 and 98 and fortunately XP Plug-and-Play compatible
Addresses up to 4GB of RAM at 33 MHz
Supports Plug-and-Play compatible PCI motherboards
Uses multimaster concurrency to operate independent of PC's CPU
Software drivers for all major networks included
LED indicators: link, activity, 100Mbps, full duplex
ADSL-Modem
ADSL (Asymmetric Digital
Subscriber Line) is the hottest technology for Broadband Internet Access as well
as providing voice services simultaneously on the same copper line. ADSL line
rate using DMT line coding supports up to 8M/1.5Mbps downstream which is more
than 140 times faster than analog modem and 800K/512Kbups upstream for Full-Rate
(T1.413 Issue2 and G.dmt) / G.lite standard. Such asymmetrical nature makes it
ideal for the SOHO environment, where the downstream traffic is typically much
higher than the upstream traffic.
Users can now enjoy the multi-media and real time applications such as online
gaming , video conferencing and other bandwidth-consuming services by
subscribing to ADSL.
CD-Burner
LITE-ON 24X10X40 CD-RW
24X
Record, 10X Re-write & 40X Max Reading Data Transfer Rate, CAV 1 Access all
formats CD-ROM , CD-R , CD-RW title & disc Conforms to Orange Book Part 2, 3
& Volume 2 : High Speed Standard ATAPI/E-IDE interface supporting MMC2
commands Compliant with PC99, Support Over-Burn, Raw mode copy Vibration
Absorber System (VAS)® to reduce vibration & noise Smart extraction 2 to
get fastest DAE/VCD data extraction speed by request Smart burn 3 to get best
burning quality & avoid buffer under run.
DVD-Player
LITE-ON 16X DVD
DVD-ROM 16X (6.4X~16X)
CD-ROM 48X (20X~48X)
Interface : ATAPI-E/IDE
Sustained Transfer Rate : DVD-ROM 8600~21600 KB/sec
CD-ROM 3000~7200 KB/sec
Burst Transfer Rate : Support up to Ultra-DMA/33 33.3MB/sec
Access Time : 120ms (typical)
Support Disc Format:
Conform to Multi-Read & DVD-Multi Standard
UDF, all DVD single/dual layer(PTP, OTP), DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW
ISO-9660, all CD-ROM formats both 8cm & 12cm discs
Support Operating System : DOS 6.xx, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, OS2 Warp
Printer
Epson C-80 STYLUS INK JET PHOTO PRINTER
Prints black text at up to 20 ppm
2880 X 720 dpi
Individual Ink Cartridges
Water-resistant DuraBrite™ Inks with up to 70 year light-resistance
Makes everything - even everyday photos - look amazing on plain paper
USB and Parallel connectivity, with network and wireless options.
Monitor
IBM P202
21-inch (19.8 viewable)
Max. modes 1600x1200/75Hz NI, 85Hz NI