It wouldn't hurt it to put in 512mb just to see.

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http://ee.gigabyte.com/products/page/mb/ga-6v … _plus_30/specs/

ver. 3 supports 512mb ram. so yes.

The problem is that i dont have 3X512MB to try but i have to buy it instead.

Also do you know where can i find information about the compartible hardware that can i add ? I tried at the internet but i didnt find somethig useful.

Thank you for your reply and sorry for my late answer 😀

Even the official manual for Rev. 1.0 says you have 3 DIMM slots and each can use up to a 512MB module so I have no reason to doubt that. VIA 693A can support that amount of RAM (in theory even more with 4 DIMM slots or registered RAM).
But this would only matter when running XP. 98SE is probably a better choice.

As for compatible hardware: The board has 2 ISA slots which is nice, especially for sound cards. 5 PCI slots so you can basically use any PCI cards (not PCI-E). There can be issues between VIA chipsets and Sound Blaster Live! cards you may want to avoid those, but those issues can supposedly be worked around.
The AGP slot should be 3.3V only so some later AGP cards won't work (but those shouldn't fit in the slot anyway). See http://www.playtool.com/pages/agpcompat/agp.html for details. For performance reasons there is probably no need to get such a card, earlier cards should be fast enough.
For the CPU all socketed Pentium-IIIs and Celerons (Socket 370) except Tualatin (only 1GHz and up) should work.

Do you have more specific questions about the compatible hardware?

http://ee.gigabyte.com/products/page/mb/ga-6v … us_30/download/

Here is all the drivers for the board. If you go into bios, it says that bios version FA from 03/21/01 supports coppermine cpus with D stepping. But not any tualatin cpu's.

http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/cpu … p.aspx?pid=2410

And here is a cpu support chart for ver.1 of the same board. Still no support for taulatins. But coppermines are still just as powerful. Your board can overclock up to 150 mhz on the fsb. the only thing that taulatins have against coppermines are 512kb cache.

Thank you all for your replies.

You have answered all of my questions. Also i liked that you mentioned about the AGP card slot.

If you are looking to max out the ram at 1.5gb Windows 2000 Pro is a great option for an operating system as an alternative to XP since Windows 9x is tricky to get working properly with over 512mb of ram. 2K is much lighter than XP in my experience.

It definitely supports 1.5GB RAM (512 x 3). I have two of these boards, one is at the moment in use. According to my experience:

- With 1GB memory installed, W95 wants something less than 512 MB, and W98 wants something less 1GB. It can be easily achieved with some "sys.ini" adjustments ("MaxPhysPage" and "MaxFileCache" variables), so you can have 1GB for your Windows 2000 or XP, while tricking W9x to believe there is something less, in a multiboot system.

- With 1.5GB memory installed, W95 and W98 both starts crashing (or completely refusing to boot) even with the same tricks mentioned above.

Dropcik wrote:

Here is all the drivers for the board. If you go into bios, it says that bios version FA from 03/21/01 supports coppermine cpus with D stepping. But not any tualatin cpu's.
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And here is a cpu support chart for ver.1 of the same board. Still no support for taulatins. But coppermines are still just as powerful. Your board can overclock up to 150 mhz on the fsb. the only thing that taulatins have against coppermines are 512kb cache.

Well, the board has a 693A so I wouldn't expect it to support Tualatins. You'd need a 694T for that.
Maybe it would still work with a modded Tualation, some people do that here with 440BX boards. I probably wouldn't bother.

As for XP/w2k: With that amount of RAM XP should be fine, w2k makes sense with less RAM and/or slower CPU, but with a Coppermine and lots of RAM I don't see the need to use w2k. Of course it should run fine, just make sure that all software/games/drivers work with w2k.

Thank you all for your time, one more question for you all.

I have one more problem, the problem is that i have an gigabyte 6200 graphics card (http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page … spx?pid=2446#ov) and i dont why the motherboard cant post. Practically i dont have any response expect for the cpu fan spinning for 3 seconds and then stops. Furthermore i dont if my PSU is enough to carry these components.

The rig contains.

M/B : GA-6VXE7+ (rev. 3.0)
CPU : P3 Intel at 800MHz ( i dont remember furthermore information )
RAM : 144MB SDRAM
HDDs : 2 but they are not connected for the test
PSU : 250W

I can try 350W PSU but if you have any idea is much appreciated

After it runs for 3 seconds and stops, will it start up again? Or do you have to unplug/replug the PSU at that point?
If the latter, then the PSU is going into it's overload protection.

If the PSU is any good then I don't think it should have a problem with those components.

Does this only happen with that video card? I wonder if it's a problem of AGP voltage compatibility. If the board and card are keyed correctly then this shouldn't be a problem, but sometimes things aren't keyed correctly.

I don't think the 6200 would cause trouble with the power supply, at least not at boot. A Geforce 6200 doesn't use much power, especially at boot when it's not rendering yet. Compare eg. here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/1506/4
I think it's more likely that your card's connector is wrongly keyed and it does only support 1.5V.

You should probably use nothing later than a Geforce FX, compatibility to older 3D games is better with those anyway.

Which OS and what games do you plan to run? That might be useful to know to make suggestions.

I have to unplug the cable and then try again. The PSU is not faulty because i have operated with hardware less powerful than this i stated. I am not actually planning to play any game there, i am just trying to revive this computer with spare parts. Also i have a lightweight (custom) version of windows XP. I have tried to operate the motherboard without the gpu but the same thing happens ( cpu fan starts for 3 seconds approximately and then stops ). At Saturday i will try a more powerful PSU and i will tell you if i had any luck.

Just to know people propably the motherboard is dead. I can t make it to work 😜