F2bnp wrote:Oh well, I have decided to drop my search for an ISA Tualatin board and just get an i815 Tualatin board instead.
I found a guy w […]
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Oh well, I have decided to drop my search for an ISA Tualatin board and just get an i815 Tualatin board instead.
I found a guy who sells a lot of these : http://cgi.ebay.de/FSC-Mainboard-D1219-Tualat … #ht_3539wt_1139
It seems like a nice deal, it even has integrated LAN which should come in real handy and has the i815e (which supports Tualatins). The cheapest TUSL2-C or similar board I can find is at least 10 euro more, is it worth the extra cost?
I mean, what possible problems could I encounter with this board?
I have that exact board, except mine has the ISA slot.
It's probably NOT a Tualatin board (unless someone actually bought one there and tried it), they just added the word "Tualatin" from a copy-pasted page on the Fujitsu-Siemens manual pages, I checked this months ago as I saw these same boards.
Only certain revisions of this board support Tualatin.
Edit:The BIOS is very limited also. It's one advantage over TUSL2-C is that you can install XP using a FS recovery disk (which is nothing but a standard XP disk with a couple FS stamps in there) and you got activated XP.
Just a note of information:Fujitsu Siemens boards I find are typically of good quality. One of my LAN rigs also uses a FS motherboard and I've had it for 8 or 9 years or so, it's still running despite all the gaming I put it through 😜
Edit2:Otoh, I could be wrong and even if I am not wrong, it'll still be a good Coppermine board.
I did find a seller that was selling Compaq boards in the UK I think. That board had support for Tualatin but didn't state that (I looked up the part number).