[nzlug] Bugger! v 2.0

[cr]

On Sunday 04 February 2007 22:12, Robert wrote:
> 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.

Well, all I can say is, my old ECS KT600 worked perfectly until the power 
supply took it out.   Reason for a 754 is that I now have a 754 Sempron CPU.
And the second-hand board that seems to have a problem just happens to be an 
Asus.

> 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.

That's about what I'd concluded.   Generally the only hassles I've had with 
MB's in the past is with the video chipset on occasion.

> 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

Errm, many thanks for the offer, but I just don't know whether the old Athlon 
CPU survived.    I have a 754  Sempron CPU that does seem to work (assuming 
the current glitches are the motherboard not the CPU, which seems likely) so 
my most likely bet is to get a board for that.

cr


> 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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