Recent content by LambdaFox

I am replacing my really, really f-ing old motherboard, with a newer just kind of old motherboard, lol. Motherboard: Supermicro X8DTi Rev 1.02 CPU Chips: Xeon 5550 x 2. I bought 2 Intel E97381-001 heatsink fan combos. The bottom of the heat-sink is smooth and has no grooves. I mention that...

I did, and I wanted to try the Vista 64 drivers and see if I could get them to work. I also thought since my board and chipset had been around for such a long time there might be a workaround not "officially" posted on Tyan's website because the board is "legacy"... There are official 64bit...

Lubuntu 12.04, here I come...

My mobo has an nVidia nForce Professional 2200 chip set. It has SATA2 not 3. I am guessing the performance of the two would be very similar. What do you think?

Since XP is dead, I am setting up a "new" old system... I have tried the nForce Professional 2200 installer from Tyan. The SM Bus controller ended up under Other in Device Manager with a Yellow exclamation point. So I downloaded the latest drivers from nVidia site. The SM Bus moved to System...