[nzlug] Bugger! v 2.0

[Robert]

ECS tend to make crap motherboards reliability wise (seen many with 
bulging caps etc.. etc..). I would reconsider your purchase if you can. 
Gigabyte/ASUS (same company now) make nice cheap boards why not instead 
of buying a socket 754 purchase a newer socket AM2 there wouldn't be any 
price saving on a 754.

Unless your planning on using on board SATA "Hardware Assisted" RAID (I 
prefer to use Linux software raid anyway) Linux compatibility isn't 
generally much of a problem on most motherboards though it always pays 
to check the chipsets of course.

If you think everything else on your old PC is ok and you only need a 
replacement socket 462 motherboard contact me off list and I'll see if I 
can find one lying around I should have one if I haven't scavenged 
capacitors off it.

Rob

cr wrote:
> On Sunday 14 January 2007 10:56, Cliff Pratt wrote:
>   
>> cr wrote:
>>     
>>> A couple of nights ago my Linux box went 'pop!' when I switched it on.  
>>>       
> (snip)
>   
>>> I'm not sure I need advice, I suspect I just need sympathy.   <g>
>>>       
>> This is not a disaster! This is an opportunity to research and purchase
>> the latest and greatest CPU/MB/PSU you can find!
>>     
>
> Well now, since my hastily-acquired second-hand CPU+mboard doesn't seem to 
> want to play nice with my Promise UDMA card (it loses the interrupts) or any 
> of my modems (it loses touch with the serial port) or my CD-writer (Xcdroast 
> reports 'DAO mode not available on this unit' !) - all of which worked 
> perfectly with my old ECS KT-600  (R.I.P.),  I decided to adopt Cliff's 
> suggestion and go research a brand new board.   
>
> It had to be -
> Socket 754 (to suit my Sempron 2800 CPU)
> Full ATX size   (I've got a nice big tower case, don't want no weeny MB 
> feeling lonely in the middle of the wide open spaces   :)
> Lotsa PCI slots  (tends to go with the ATX size)
> Two serial ports if possible 
> Don't care about on-board VGA (I've got lotsa spare graphics cards)
> Affordable i.e. not too far into 3 figures (before the decimal point, that is)
>
> So I fired up Pricespy to see what was on the market, spent ages Googling and 
> crossing off the microATX boards (which was most of them), and decided on a 
> Gigabyte K8NS (which even got five good user reports on LinuxQuestions.org's 
> compatibility list as a bonus).    Saturday, I rang the store - "sorry, we 
> just sold the last one, 754's are hard to find".    Tried the next two sites 
> on Pricespy's list, 'out of stock' and 'on order'.
> Took a deep breath, There's More Than One Way To Do It, more Googling and I've 
> got a ECS K8T800-A on order....   now I just have to wait for the confirming 
> email to say they actually have one....    :)
> Or not, as the case may be.
>
> cr
>
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