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    #1

    Compaq wassit?

    I have just been given this Compaq board
    Not a lot of writing on it

    It posts but I dont seem to be able to do much in the bios to get it to run an OS. It was in an office network
    I'd like to use it in a build can anyone point me to user manual bios etc?
    Pentium4 478 socket



    939 DualCore AMD Opteron, 1800 MHz (9 x 200)
    Abit AN8 / Fatal1ty AN8 SLI Series
    3072 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
    ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series (1024 MB
    Lian LI Aluminium mesh case
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    #2
    Re: Compaq wassit?

    you have to do better than that.
    i assume it's trying to net-boot.
    try removing the battery for a while.

    and most foto's that actually show some text or numbers on this thing.

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      #3
      Re: Compaq wassit?

      its from an evo.
      nothing unusual to do vs any other board.

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        #4
        Re: Compaq wassit?

        yup. evo. the 2-pci extender is the giveaway. older than mine, mine uses a p4 ht northwood (fileserver)
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          #5
          Re: Compaq wassit?

          Hmmm well I have googled til I'm blue and I can not find a pinout for this front panel connecter.
          Anybody help there?



          939 DualCore AMD Opteron, 1800 MHz (9 x 200)
          Abit AN8 / Fatal1ty AN8 SLI Series
          3072 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
          ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series (1024 MB
          Lian LI Aluminium mesh case

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            #6
            Re: Compaq wassit?

            http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=&oq=&gs_rfai=
            Mann-Made Global Warming.
            - We should be more concerned about the Intellectual Climate.
            -
            Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
            - Dr Seuss
            -
            You can teach a man to fish and feed him for life, but if he can't handle sushi you must also teach him to cook.
            -

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              #7
              Re: Compaq wassit?

              Like I said.....


              939 DualCore AMD Opteron, 1800 MHz (9 x 200)
              Abit AN8 / Fatal1ty AN8 SLI Series
              3072 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
              ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series (1024 MB
              Lian LI Aluminium mesh case

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                #8
                Re: Compaq wassit?

                Experiment. Keep shorting two pins at a time and when it turns on you'll have the power pins. Plug in the HDD LED while it's on, etc...
                "We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."

                -Leonid Brezhnev (On the Yom Kippur War)

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                  #9
                  Re: Compaq wassit?

                  Screwdriver did that... and away it went.I didnt really want to because I dont know what I might stuff up but hey....pins 2 and 3 from the top left are the PWR the rest will be easy with a little LED test rig
                  Now to see what I can do to get it to boot into WinDoze.. The bios is a very strange affair...


                  939 DualCore AMD Opteron, 1800 MHz (9 x 200)
                  Abit AN8 / Fatal1ty AN8 SLI Series
                  3072 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
                  ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series (1024 MB
                  Lian LI Aluminium mesh case

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                    #10
                    Re: Compaq wassit?

                    Originally posted by kiddznet View Post
                    Like I said.....
                    Psst...
                    You have to actually look -IN- the manuals.
                    .
                    Mann-Made Global Warming.
                    - We should be more concerned about the Intellectual Climate.
                    -
                    Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
                    - Dr Seuss
                    -
                    You can teach a man to fish and feed him for life, but if he can't handle sushi you must also teach him to cook.
                    -

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                      #11
                      Re: Compaq wassit?

                      Not found in any manual but in a forum

                      Hi, just like you I purchased two of these motherboards and I have very good news for you. Above the blue PRIMARY IDE ATA connector is a set of 18 pins labeled PB/LED P5 and pin 1 is labeled.


                      17 15 13 11 9 7 5 3 1
                      . . . . . . . . .
                      . . . . . . . .
                      18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2

                      Pins 1 and 3 = HD LED
                      Pins 2 and 4 = POWER LED
                      Pins 6 and 8 = POWER SWITCH
                      Pin 14 has no pin

                      EVEREST says the board is a COMPAQ

                      I reckon its one of these Compaq 283983-001 Intel 845 Socket 478

                      And it does run with either a Celeron or a P4
                      Last edited by kiddznet; 09-18-2010, 01:18 PM.


                      939 DualCore AMD Opteron, 1800 MHz (9 x 200)
                      Abit AN8 / Fatal1ty AN8 SLI Series
                      3072 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
                      ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series (1024 MB
                      Lian LI Aluminium mesh case

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                        #12
                        Re: Compaq wassit?

                        it was the evo board befoe they had the ones for p4 ht (like i have).
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                          #13
                          Re: Compaq wassit?

                          Now I have decided to use it I get a error 512 message on boot no case fan connected press F1 to start Well it used to go away when i hooked up a fan but now there are NO VOLTS on the connector
                          Have I shorted something? there appears to be NO WAY to disable this in the bios.

                          Compaq 283983-001 Intel 845 Socket 478


                          939 DualCore AMD Opteron, 1800 MHz (9 x 200)
                          Abit AN8 / Fatal1ty AN8 SLI Series
                          3072 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
                          ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series (1024 MB
                          Lian LI Aluminium mesh case

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                            #14
                            Re: Compaq wassit?

                            That looks like an evo D510 board.

                            If I recall...and it's been a long while since I've seen one of those... It uses a voltage controlled fan. In other words, you might need a 5000rpm fan the bios steps down to half speed for normal use. Often times, the big box machines get really fussy if you change the CPU fan to something unexpected. Just a thought.

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                              #15
                              Re: Compaq wassit?

                              Thanks. I had it running before using a 775 CPU fan. Now that doesnt work . Truly frustrating seems no way to bypass it in the bios either

                              512-Chassis fan not detected



                              grrrrr


                              939 DualCore AMD Opteron, 1800 MHz (9 x 200)
                              Abit AN8 / Fatal1ty AN8 SLI Series
                              3072 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
                              ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series (1024 MB
                              Lian LI Aluminium mesh case

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                                #16
                                Re: Compaq wassit?

                                I'd guess chassis fan would be some sort of case fan, not the CPU fan. If my memory is correct, the D510 has a 92mm rear fan. Make sure the fan you're hooking up has the 3-wire connector. Some boards use the rpm sensor wire to detect the presence of a fan, others use the resistance on the fan header.

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                                  #17
                                  Re: Compaq wassit?

                                  While I ponder that one I have a GA-8PE667 Pro dual bios thing in 478.
                                  Its starts but no post
                                  I have tried a AMIBOOT.ROM boot block with a floppy, shorted the two high number pins on the BIOS etc but NADA
                                  Frisbee time?


                                  939 DualCore AMD Opteron, 1800 MHz (9 x 200)
                                  Abit AN8 / Fatal1ty AN8 SLI Series
                                  3072 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
                                  ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series (1024 MB
                                  Lian LI Aluminium mesh case

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                                    #18
                                    Re: Compaq wassit?

                                    Beeps?
                                    Mann-Made Global Warming.
                                    - We should be more concerned about the Intellectual Climate.
                                    -
                                    Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
                                    - Dr Seuss
                                    -
                                    You can teach a man to fish and feed him for life, but if he can't handle sushi you must also teach him to cook.
                                    -

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                                      #19
                                      Re: Compaq wassit?

                                      No beeps. The floppy doesnt respond on start, have tried the Ctrl+Home/pageup but still nothing..
                                      .


                                      939 DualCore AMD Opteron, 1800 MHz (9 x 200)
                                      Abit AN8 / Fatal1ty AN8 SLI Series
                                      3072 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
                                      ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series (1024 MB
                                      Lian LI Aluminium mesh case

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                                        #20
                                        Re: Compaq wassit?

                                        anything that could beep? if not then you never will hear beeps...
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