Tekram P6PRO-A+ motherboard--any comments?

[INFERNO2000 0]

Quck overview of this:

Technical Specifications:

Processor:

Supports 133Mhz FSB CPUs such as PIII E & EB

SLOT 1 architecture supports Intel® Pentium® III & Pentium® II (up to 733Mhz)

Intel® Celeron® Processors (up to 500Mhz) supported

CPU Speed Switching Voltage Regulator: 1.3V~3.5V

 

Chipset:

VIA® Apollo Pro 133 PCIset

66Mhz, 100Mhz, 133Mhz speeds supported

Advanced Hardware Monitoring with the Winbond W83783S chip

 

BIOS:

Flash EPROM

Award® PCI BIOS

On-board Symbios® SCSI BIOS

On screen "Plug-and-Play" Setup

 

Cache Memory:

Built-in to Pentium® III / Pentium® II processor module

 

System Memory:

(3) 168-pin DIMM Sockets

Maximum 768MB RAM

3.3V SDRAM DIMMs supported: PC133, Non-Buffered, SPD EEPROM

 

On-Board EIDE:

(2) UltraDMA/66 PCI Bus Master IDE Channels

LBA Mode, Enhanced PIO Mode, 4HD Autodetect

 

On-Board Super I/O:

(1) Floppy Controller (up to 2.88 MB)

(2) Serial Ports (16550 UART)

(1) Parallel Port (EPP/ECP)

(2) USB Ports

 

Expansion Slots:

(1) AGP Slot

(5) 32-bit PCI Bus Master Slots

(2) 16-bit ISA Slots

 

Dimensions:

ATX Form Factor: 305mm x 170mm (12.0" x 6.7")

 

System Requirements:

ATX Case & Power Supply

 

 

 

 

I hate VIA..but dammit, it was $52 and free shipping(ebay)...and it's so hard to find a cheap Slot1 mobo for under $75...

 

 

If anyone has this motherboard, or if anyone shares the f*cking VIA chipset on a PIII(This PIII is a Katamai)...please tell me how it does? I'll be running a Voodoo3 2000 on it, so I should skip the nvidia problems...I hope?

[INFERNO2000 0]

Since there aren't any takers..here's how it went.

 

 

Booted in to BIOS. Fine. Set the non-defaults(you know, setting clock properly, and all the proper setup things that a person has to do.

 

Reboot. No changes to FSB or anything, and my motherboard decides to change my lowly PIII500 Katmai to a PIII 667B Coppermine.

/HANG!/

I do everything I can to get back to the 500...go to the standard 100 FSB JUMPER and 5x multiplier JUMPER...

 

Boot.

/HANG!/667B Running memory(PC100) at PC133. I run in and get some 133 so as to not destroy the 32mb I have(It's not much..but with prices what they are..).

 

Pull the CMOS battery. Reboot

667B

/HANG!/

 

Turn on again..while hung, pull out the ATX power switch(with no CMOS..shouldn't that clear everything?)

same thing

 

remove ram and boot? Same

Remove CPU and boot? Same

Remove BIOS and boot? Same....

 

 

EVERYTHING SAYS 667B and hangs...when it DOES boot properly, that is.

 

 

So..I'm stuck with a dead motherboard...or so I think.

 

I'm going to call the guy and say it was DOA...which it more or less was.

 

STAY AWAY FROM TEKRAM is all I can say.

 

They have no phone support in the USA..if that says anything.

 

Stick with the tried and true ASUS, ABIT, etc.

 

And stay off of ebay

[DavidNewbould 0]

If you pulled out the power connectors on the mobo, it wouldnt clear anything, as its the CMOS battery that keeps everything alive while the PC is switched off.

You should find the jumper that is there to clear CMOS and try that.

[INFERNO2000 0]

That was done with no battery,

 

?Everything was done with no battery.