I have a receptor version 1.00 revision B. I now know what Motherbaord and Processor is inside. I upgraded my ram 2 gigs with PNY PC3200 that is backword compatible with PC2700 and one speed lower.
THe motherboard is an Asus A7V8x-MX SE. Not sure what the SE is for?
THis is really a good motherboard. Processor runs a bit hot which I may change to a better cooling system with space constraints to work with.
Anyhow the Processor is and AMD XP 2500+. I want to upgrade it to an AMD 3200+. As long as the bios is up to date I don't see what this cannot be done. It has a floppy and CDrom connectors on the motherboard and if I wanted to I could boot into linix using those methods or just boot into the Bios I suppose hitting DEL like on most ASUS Pheonix Award Bios motherboards.
Does anyone know if I can go up to AMD 2900+ XP or even 3200+? THey have a 3200+ 400MGH but I don't think the Bios will support that.
SInce the underlying OS is Linux it shoudl adapt to the new processor when it boots up right?
I was just now able to see the BIOS version as 1005 during bootup. THere is a 1006 Bios update to support newer processors. SO why can't Muse Research allow you to do this? Or can muse upgrade the Bios and this would allow you to use Anthlon XP 3200+.
I see if I try to go into the Bios there is a password set. I know I can reset that but then the Bios will loose all of its MUSE BIOS default settings.
I will have to figure out how to recover the orignal bios settings if I attempt this.
Has anyone already upgraded the BIOS and Processor to XP3200+. THere is simply no reason this cannot work.
Only thing that might be a problem is the Bios 1006 was not tested with their overlaying OS or Windows Application which I think just uses WINE.
Help will be greatly appreciated. THanks
Receptor AMD 2500+ XP Processor question
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- KVRian
- 571 posts since 14 Oct, 2004 from UK
I read somewhere, but I can't remember where, that the CPU could be replaced using a XP3000+. Personally, I think it's a waste of money as the improvement is going to be minimal.
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- KVRist
- 96 posts since 2 May, 2004 from USA
I was thinking the same thing man...looking by the log files....most of the stuff was compiled with the"MARCH" USE flag....witch is a bad thing for us...good thing for Muse Research.
the bad thing is if you get the upgrade to work....your serial numbers for NI products need a new key (all of them).
im in the process of using a AMD64ish board as a upgrade solution.
ill spit da info in time
the bad thing is if you get the upgrade to work....your serial numbers for NI products need a new key (all of them).
im in the process of using a AMD64ish board as a upgrade solution.
ill spit da info in time
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- KVRist
- 69 posts since 9 Jan, 2006
What motherboard are you considering using? I'd like to take the thing apart myself whenever my warranty goes out the door.bekenone wrote:I was thinking the same thing man...looking by the log files....most of the stuff was compiled with the"MARCH" USE flag....witch is a bad thing for us...good thing for Muse Research.
the bad thing is if you get the upgrade to work....your serial numbers for NI products need a new key (all of them).
im in the process of using a AMD64ish board as a upgrade solution.
ill spit da info in time
I did a quick look around before and found the Asus A8V-VM to be nice choice. However, the current Receptor kernel doesn't have any drivers for the NIC that's on that motherboard. Other than that it can handle 4 Gb RAM and a Athlon 64 CPU. And since all Atlon 64 CPU's are backwards compatible (can run in 32 bit mode), running the current Muse kernel wouldn't (shoudln't) be a problem. (I do know for a fact that the current kernel doesn't boot on a Pentium system; I accidently tried to boot from the drive before when I took a backup of the HD).
I'm still missing the kernel sources at Muse's FTP btw. They promised make these avalible some time ago now...
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Olle Gustafsson