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Posted by Wes Newell on 10/07/40 11:56
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:59:15 -0400, Freewheeling wrote:
> Wes Newell wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:16:30 -0400, Freewheeling wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks. I've got some problems watching video and DVDs on my system
>>> and I'm wondering what I need to do to get watchable performance? I
>>> Motherboard: ASUS A7M266
>>> Processor: AMD Athlon 1400 MHz
>>> RAM: 2GB
>>> Video Card: ASUS AGP-V7100 DVI SDRAM v44.03 (GeForce2 MX Chipset - no
>>> memory)
>>> Sound Device: CM18738/C3DX PCI Audio Device (this is the onboard audio)
>>> DVD Player: Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1502
>>> Monitor: Samsung Syncmaster 205BW (Digital 1024 x 768)
>>>
> Problem is, I don't have any idea how to reassign the IRQs. Is there an
> online tutorial, or something?
>
Normally you can assign IRQ's via the bios somewhat. So start there. IRQ's
are usually assitgned to the pci slots in the MB. Some bioses may or may
not let you reasssign them. You'll have to check yours.
> Desktop/LX is now defunct. The one possibility left is that the DVD
> software in Linux has been assigned to the wrong region, so I might
> fiddle with that a bit.
>
You can download about any versio you want and burn the cd, assuming you
have a cd burner.
> What are the limitations on upgrading with that MB? What are the
> options? Would I need to change my power supply? I think I recently
> went from 300 to 350 amps, so it's a little more robust than originally,
> but it supports all the necessary voltages.
>
You would not need a new PSU. 300W is plenty for any K7 cpu. The only
limitation you have with that MB is the FSB speed. It's limited to 133MHz,
so you can run any /266 model XP cpu. Even with an older board I had that
was limited to 100MHz (Abit KT7) I ran a 2100+ clocked at 24x100 for
2400MHz. When AMD started hard locking the multiplier it presented
problems, so you need an older one that's not locked, an XP-M, or have to
modify a newer XP to make it an XP-M. But off the shelf, any /266 model
will work. If you have never upgraded the bios, you probaly should first
to the latest. There's lots of info about upgrading the CPU in the My
server link in my sigline. Another very informative link is this one.
http://fab51.com/index-e.html
> One more thing, I noticed that with the DVD image reduced in size the
> faltering wasn't nearly as bad.
Less pixel movement that way. Maybe a newer video card is needed, but I
still think it's a software problem or irq conflict. it doesn't take that
much cpu/video power to display a standard DVD image. HD is a different
story. It takes a lot to decode an HD (1080i, 19200x1080) mpeg2 stream,
but the DVD is only 480i (576x480 IIRC).
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