[ale] Re: Who's Your Mother...

[Van L. Loggins]

I thought so too about the problem being confined to low end 
motherboards but the MSI board I had go south on me was a
K7T MASTER-S server Motherboard which has an Integrated Adaptec U160 
SCSI controller.

I know I got a deal on it from compgeeks (paid 39.99 for it), but I know 
that this motherboard
 was pretty expensive when it originally came out.

I was using it with a Duron 900 Mhz CPU and I had it running as a file 
server for my network
courtesy of Redhat 8.0 and Samba. I had 2 fat32 partitioned 36.4 gig 
7200 rpm IBM Scsi drives
that I had shared over the network for storing stuff I had downloaded of 
my DSL connection
 on my other computers and a 10 gig IDE drive that I had RH 8.0 
installed on.

All I know is that if MSI doesn't replace this Motherboard I most likely 
will never own another MSI product.

I got so fed up with them that I went ahead and ordered a really cheapo 
amptron M810LMR Motherboard and a advansys 3940UW pci scsi card off ebay 
so I could go ahead and get my file server up and running. Other than 
the parallel port connector and the onboard sound connector being 
damaged during shipping it seems to work fine. I had to install a Sound 
Blaster ES1371 sound card for the odd moment where I want to play an MP3 
thru this system but had no problems getting the system to work. Redhat 
8.0 works well on it.


>Message: 8
>Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 11:44:27 -0400
>From: Dow Hurst <dhurst at kennesaw.edu>
>To: ale at ale.org
>Subject: Re: [ale] Who's Your Mother...
>Reply-To: ale at ale.org
>
>I read about the capacitors too.  Seems to be mainly in really lowend 
>cheapo mobo's from what the article stated.  Thanks for the info on the 
>temps.  I have the XP1800 and it runs about 60C all the time.  My 
>airflow isn't the best but definitely it is a hot chip!
>Dow
>
>
>Van L. Loggins wrote:
>
>  
>
>>> I just recently built myself a new computer at home. I used an Epox 
>>> 8RDA+ Nforce2 based MB in it.
>>>
>>> this is my first Motherboard from Epox but I am very impressed with 
>>> it, with the AMD Athlon XP 2400 t'bred Revision B core cpu I have 
>>> paired with this MB along with the Volcano 9 Heatsink and fan I am 
>>> getting very cool cpu temps, even when I overclock the chip by 
>>> dropping the multiplier and raising the frontside bus to 166 MHz from 
>>> the stock 133 MHz. cpu temps on this unit just barely break 30 Celsius 
>>> unless I overclock it.
>>>
>>> my System at work is running an Abit KR7A-133 with an AMD Athlon XP 
>>> 1800 Palomino core that has always ran fairly hot. I have it paired 
>>> with a volcano 6cu+ and have never been able to get this system's cpu 
>>> to stay cooler than the mid 40's (celsius)
>>>
>>> No major problems out of either systems, however I have had problems 
>>> recently with a MSI motherboard that I bought less than a year ago 
>>> that has popped 4 capacitors. and believe me MSI has been giving me 
>>> the run around about replacing it. If I had been overclocking the 
>>> system (which I wasn't) then I wouldn't have even attempted to get the 
>>> motherboard replaced. but if I buy something that has a 1 year 
>>> warranty and it craps and dies on me less than 8 months from when I 
>>> bought it I expect the company to replace it.
>>>
>>> Maximum PC magazine has a small article in this months issue about the 
>>> bursting capacitor problem, it seems a inferior lot of capacitors got 
>>> dispersed throught the electronics manufacturers of the world and we 
>>> will be seeing the effects for a long time to come.
>>>
>>> any thoughts on this one guys?
>>>
>>


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