JIM HOLSONBACK wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

 JH> Hi, Roy.  Slowly gaining ground on responding, and up to 9/11/03
 JH> now.



Well,  I've been real busy with running around to other states and similar
nonsense this past weekend,  so I too am catching up.

 RJT> Then I finally hooked up with my brother,  who'd upgraded his system.
 RJT> I got his old MB,  a Celeron 366.  Now all I need is a 256M ram stick
 RJT> and an AGP card to bring that up. 

I've been told since then that the board doesn't like bigger than 128M
sticks,  which seem to be available at a reasonable price -- last sunday's
paper showed $15-20 for them,  but darn rebates...  OTOH I was in a
CompuUSA store today and they wanted $45!  No way!

 RJT> And figure out what HD of what I have here is going in there.  
 RJT> And what monitor I'm going to use with it.  And where the heck 
 RJT> I'm gonna *PUT* it in this mess...   :-)

 JH> See other msg.  I recommend you "think KVM switch"  I think I 
 JH> recently saw a 4-box  "automatic" one  with full cable set for $45
 JH> or so.

You're not the first one to recommend that,  but I can't read what's on two
screens at once by switching back and forth,  and sometimes I want to do
just that -- read two screens at once.  Better yet,  I can also see the
occasional advantages of a two-headed system.

 JH> Do you have manual for that board yet?

 RJT> No,  I don't.  That's why I was asking Matt about where he dug up
 RJT> the info for me that time,  I guess maybe I oughta research it  
 RJT> a bit...

 JH> My advice -  run "CTBIOS.EXE" on it and see what all it ID's. 
 JH> Usually the mainboard mfgr, and often an URL to their website.

I'll have to do that,  once I get it hooked up to something.  Right now
there's a board and PS in that box,  no video,  no ram,  nothing else.

 JH> 

 RJT> Let me look at that MB...    Looks like it says "Intel Type AL440LX on
 RJT> the sticker.  Know where I'd look for something like that?

 JH> I'd start with CTBIOS.  I've seen a later response to you, but I'd
 JH> say don't just go by that.

That response as I recall also said something about me needing PC66 ram for
it,  and my brother says that he had PC133 ram in there running just fine.

 JH> Run CTBIOS.  Most genuine Intel boards I've seen are not that 
 JH> clearly labeled.  Not sure of the newest, but PII FX Intel board I 
 JH> have here has some white strips on the board -  maybe labels, 
 JH> maybe stencilled, and there is a long "AA" number on there, which 
 JH> used to be the key to finding info on the board at the Intel 
 JH> website. 

The point where I pulled that number off might have been white,  I don't
recall.  (Looking...)  Yep.  Righe parallel to the ram sockets just the
other side of the fan connector.  An empty white strip on the edge closest
to the front where there are 3 sets of jumpers,  one of which is marked
with a little table "Normal", "Config" and
"Rcvry".   There's a white strip between the AGP socket,  the
battery,  and the back of the case that says "4000304" and
another one to the left of that,  between the PCI slots and the back of the
case that says "GTAL84551186",  yellow sticker with barcode on
the white strip.  Got a connector near there,  polarized 2-pin that's
marked "chassis intrusion",  don't think I've seen that one
before.  And that's about all I can see without getting further in there
than I want to right now.

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