Letting the chips fall where they may, I quote Martin Imrisek:
>... The best course
>of action is to let your dealer know of this and to order a board without
>cache made by the suspect manufacturer. Tyan seems to have better support
>for distributors than for individual customers.
Well, Tyan's support just plan sucks. Distributers go through the same
process end users go through; they just have stock they can replace your
MB with immediately.
I had a Tyan MB replaced (directly... the vendor no longer stocked the MB
and *really* didn't want to have to deal with this.) It took about two
months to get the new MB. I'm sure moving their office had nothing to do
with the time :-)
>I had mine replaced and I've not had any problems since.
Generally, I think Tyan boards are OK... when they work. If they don't work,
then you'd wish you'd never heard of Tyan.
FWIW, I have a Tomcat IIID whos only problem is not being able to use SIMM
banks 2 and 3 (the last four SIMMs) -- those slots generate bit errors as if
data lines aren't connected. I've had no other problems from the other half
dozen Tyan MB's around the office. (Tahoe2+, Tiger, Thunder II, etc.)
--Ricky
