On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 07:42, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 3:35 pm, Aaron Matteson wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 07:19, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 3:14 pm, Aaron Matteson wrote: > > > > > > > But the issues with > > > > Via are more pronounced. > > > > > > > > > What sort of problems are you seeing, Aaron? > > > > Mainly stability issues, ranging from the IDE controller to the actual > > chipset. The most prevalent of the symptoms is data corruption. > > > > The good thing about Via is that they do perform a little better, but is > > it worth sacraficing stability for slightly faster? > > > > There are a lot of Via customers that have never had any problems, same > > old story with every other manufacture. I guess what i am trying to get > > at is buying Via is a little like russian roulette. > > > Interesting. Several of my family have Soltek mobos, which use via chipsets. > Generally they are pretty well-behaved, but one, right from the start has had > some problems. After ruling out everything I possibly can, I began to > suspect the ide1 controller. This seems to fit with your experience, would > you say?
I just retired a Soltek mobo with a 233mhz cpu .... after 7 years of almost continuous usage. ... btw I'll take Via over i845 any day. James > > Anne
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