Thinking about a upgrade ,, Help meh plz :)

[Fil2eFly]

ok i have a EPoX 9NDA3 nForce 3 Ultra Mobo,
atm i have

AMD64 3200+
1GB ram DDR400
nvidia 7600GS

i was thinking of buying a AMDx2 4200+ but im not sure if my Mobo will support it

so.. any ideas sujestions etc?

[CaNNoN_FoDDa]

Wow, Epox have a crap website.

I can't see anything to suggest that that cpu (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-183-AM&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=567) wouldnt work on that mobo (http://www.epox.nl/english/products/motherboard/9nda3+.htm), but given the level of support they have on their site i wouldnt take that as definitive. Maybe you wanna check a few hardware support forums?

[YegaDoyai]

You will probably need to flash your bios to support the dual cores but as far as I can remember the nforce chipset supports dual core just fine. But I only ever remember checking about the nForce 4 chipset. The latest bios on the Epox site does not actually have a change log so I have no idea if it will allow it or not. More research is required.

Cannon linked to the wrong site (couldn't understand why my mobo didn't show), don't ask me why that otherone exists it is crap.

go here

http://www.epox.com.tw/eng/support.php?ps=322&type=1

get the latest bios it supports dual core. away you go!

[Fil2eFly]

well, iv been reading up a little and found out i can run a amdx2 4200,, i think ;),, jst had to update my Bios; what a fuck about that was!

although... i ave a little porblem,
i bought a sata drive a while ago and a couldent install a os on it,, iv jst found out that was due to the old bios,, but i pluged it in now, jst to use it for shite, and my comp wont boot up?... dose windows loading screen then goes black and hangs, any ideas?

[CaNNoN_FoDDa]

Youre installing it for the first time as a secondary? Maybe check your boot order in the bios settings and check if you need to install/update a sata driver. Take it it boots normally without the sata drive installed?

[Fil2eFly]

yeah fired it in opend up my bios to check it booted from my old HD, and then tryed to boot it up, tryed a few times , and always the same, windows starts to load, with the little green bar, then the screen goes black, oh and the red HD light stays on..and i unpluged the sata and boots fine..

[Fil2eFly]

ok, well i think iv found out y my HD is being gay..http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/knowledge_base/

i would appear thet the firmware on my sata HD dosent like Nforce3/4 chipsets :P lololol n00bs tbh...