RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-24 Thread Sevatio
: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH | | |I have two machines with the GA-7ZX-1 mobo. LM8.0 made the |system clock |very inaccurate. LM8.1 made that same system clock even |worse. I'm very |disappointed with this problem. Although adjtimex can be used to help |this, it still results in timekeeping

Fwd: Re: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-24 Thread Derek Jennings
Subject: Re: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:39:20 +0100 From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], hosey [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 24 October 2001 10:57 am, skinky wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:35, hosey wrote: | Speaking of AC97

RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-24 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH | | |Jose, | |That's very interesting what you said. However, this wasn't a problem |when I had the machines running LM7.2. Also, it's not a problem when |running Windoze98. | |Sevatio | | Original Message | |On 10/23/01, 4:51:06 PM

RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-23 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Both the VIA and ALiMagiK boards utilize Winbond chips. There is nothing wrong with these boards, but there is a -BIG- bug with the Winbond clock/timer chips. These Winbond chips are what keeps the real time clock going during power offs, etc. It seems that the Winbond clocks will randomly

Re: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-23 Thread Robert MacLean
how do i turn it off? ___ Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 4:41 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH Both the VIA

RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-23 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of shadowbuilder |Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 11:13 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH | | |I haven't come across this bug before, was it just in the |early revisions or has it been sorted? I use my PC to |dual

RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-23 Thread shadowbuilder
No, i've experienced no problems yet, but i disabled the onboard sound because i got a Soundblaster Live Platinum card for my anniversary from my wife :) (she bought it not knowing i had onboard sound) so i never got to test the AC97 sound for myself, but a mate of mine also uses this MB (that's

Re: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-23 Thread Sevatio
I have two machines with the GA-7ZX-1 mobo. LM8.0 made the system clock very inaccurate. LM8.1 made that same system clock even worse. I'm very disappointed with this problem. Although adjtimex can be used to help this, it still results in timekeeping that is less accurate than my

Re: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-23 Thread Sevatio
AC97 sound doesn't work very well with LM8.0 . That's why I had to buy soundcards for my machines with this piece-of-crap motherboard. Sevatio Original Message On 10/23/01, 9:22:06 AM, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH: You have no problems

RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-23 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
but tells you how Winbond and ALiMagic VIA don't seem to be interested in fixing this. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sevatio |Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 3:20 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] gigabyte GA

Re: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-23 Thread hosey
Sevatio wrote: AC97 sound doesn't work very well with LM8.0 . That's why I had to buy soundcards for my machines with this piece-of-crap motherboard. Sevatio Original Message On 10/23/01, 9:22:06 AM, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-23 Thread shadowbuilder
it though :) Wayne -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert MacLean Sent: 23 October 2001 15:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH how do i turn it off

Re: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH

2001-10-23 Thread Michael
You have no problems with the AC 97 sound? shadowbuilder wrote: I haven't come across this bug before, was it just in the early revisions or has it been sorted? I use my PC to dual-boot with Win98se (for the games)and Mandrake8.1 and i haven't experienced any problem with the time at all