Lorne Shantz wrote: > I will NEVER EVER by a MB with a via chipset again! Period. It has left me so > bitter, that I probably wont' even get an AMD cpu next time. I went to AMD's > website and picked a MB brand that was recommended by AMD. I spent 3 months > screwing around, getting frustrated and cussing. Changed to an IWILL mb and all > my problems went away. Before that I had an Intel MB, intel chip and no > problems. It isn't that AMD sells bad product, but a LOT of MB companies are > putting out shit. My 1.3 cents worth. >
I don't know if you still have the board you had troubles with, but interestingly enough, the patches talked about in the article Felix quoted actually seemed to solve alot more issues with VIA based MB's than just performance problems. It might be worth checking out. > Felix Miata wrote: >>I don't think so. I found the article that lead to my comment: >>http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/index.html Read my other post about how hard it is to test the different combinations of PC hardware. I don't doubt you had problems. And I bet there are a whole lot of people witht eh same MB that didn't. It really has a lot to do with the exact combination that you're trying to use at any one time. You may have different components next time and a VIA based MB might work fine. At the same time with different components might give you similliar problems on a board with a non-VIA chipset. There are *no* absolutes. And as another person said, most hardware problems are fixable in software. Once the culprit is found many times it's a simple driver or BIOS patch and it's gone. -Kyle -- _ -------------------------------ooO( )Ooo------------------------------- Kyle J. McDonald (o o) Systems Support Engineer Sun Microsystems Inc. ||||| Enterprise Server Products [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1 Network Drive BUR03-4630 \\\// voice: (781) 442-2184 Burlington, MA 01803 (o o) fax: (781) 442-1542 -------------------------------ooO(_)Ooo-------------------------------
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