Motherboard compatibility test
Tyan Trinity i845 S2090

Motherboard specifications CPU Single Socket 478: Pentium 4 1.7 - 2 GHz Chipset Intel 845 Expansion slots 6 PCI 1 AGP Storage I/O 2 onboard EIDE ATA-100 controllers Front Side Bus 400 MHz

Windows 2000 test results

Windows XP test results Tested configuration CPU  Single 1.8-GHz Pentium 4 BIOS Award version: 1.0  date: 09/12/01 Memory 256-MB SDRAM PC133 Storage  Used secondary EIDE connector Software Matrox Video Tools version 3.1b and Adobe Premiere 6.0 Installed expansion cards  PCI 6  RT2500 codec card  PCI 5  —  PCI 4  —  PCI 3  Sound Blaster Live! Value Filename: sblivexpdrivupdate.exe Version: 3509.2.0.0 Date: 11/02/01  PCI 2  — PCI 1  Netgear network card Model: FA310TX Version: 4.56 Date: 07/01/01 Tested AGP display cards Card Driver 16* 32* Matrox Millennium G550 Version 5.72.021 Date: 25/10/01 Yes Yes Asus V8200 Version 23.11 Date: 03/12/01 Yes Yes ATI Radeon 64MB Vivo Version 6.13.3276 Date: 15/10/01 Yes Yes ATI Radeon 8500 Version 6.13.3276 Date: 15/10/01 Yes Yes Elsa Gladiac 920 Version 5.13.01.2311 Date: 07/12/01 Yes Yes Hercules 3D Prophet 3 Version 23.11 Date: 11/29/01 Yes Yes Additional required software We installed patches and drivers in the following order: 1 Intel's Chipset Software Installation Utility, version 3.20.1008. 2 Intel's application accelerator, version 1.1.2. *16 and 32 refer to color depth in bits Windows 2000 test results Tested configuration CPU  Single 1.8-GHz Pentium 4 BIOS Award version 1.00  date: 09/12/01 Memory 256-MB SDRAM PC133 Storage  Used secondary EIDE connector Software Matrox Video Tools version 3.1b and Adobe Premiere 6.0 Installed expansion cards  PCI 6  RT2500 codec card  PCI 5  —  PCI 4  —  PCI 3  Sound Blaster Live! Value Filename: sblivexpdrivupdate.exe Version: 3509.2.0.0 Date: 11/02/01  PCI 2  — PCI 1  Netgear FA310TXV network card Version: 4.56 Date: 07/1/01 Tested AGP display cards Card Driver 16* 32* Matrox Millennium G550 Version 5.72.021 Date: 25/10/01 Yes Yes Asus AGP-V8200 Version 23.11 Date: 03/12/01 Yes Yes ATI Radeon 8500 Version 5.13.01.3276 Date: 10/15/01 Yes Yes Elsa Gladiac 920 Version 5.13.01.2311 Date: 07/12/01 Yes Yes Hercules 3D Prophet 3 Version 23.11 Date: 11/29/01 Yes Yes Additional required software We installed patches and drivers in the following order:  1 Microsoft Service Pack 2 for Windows 2000. 2 Intel's INF chipset driver, version 3.20.1008. *16 and 32 refer to color depth in bits

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The information in this document is subject to change. For the latest updates to this information, please check this site often. Matrox does not guarantee that the hardware listed as recommended will perform adequately to meet any particular customer's needs. This document shows our results at the time of testing. Changes to these systems may have occurred since completion of our tests. Contact the motherboard and computer system vendor for particular BIOS versions. Other untested computer systems may provide adequate performance; however, you may experience configuration difficulties. This document was last updated January 17th, 2002 List of validated motherboards