<div>Mine Was free. With the puchase intel Duo 6600. The rest of the compunuts were very good. The system was VERY responsive With the Intel Duo 6600 on the MSI Motherboard, 200gb SATA. I'm happy with the a<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">rduous<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN> result. It just took alot to get there.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><BR><B><I>"Morris, Tim" <tmorris@ugs.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3132" name=GENERATOR> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=595183712-11072007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Some SATA controllers are a pain in the A**. Some boards have options to set a SATA controller as an AHCI controller, or to emulate an old IDE controller. Either of those options (if the
board had them) might have worked in your case. Obviously, setting them to emulate an IDE controller isn't such a great idea, but from what I can tell the only thing you lose by setting them to AHCI is the RAID functionality (if it even has it). I could be wrong...</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=595183712-11072007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=595183712-11072007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>For the record, I don't like ECS boards either. I have had 2, one still works (although the USB died) and the other died completely after 3 months. But hey, they were cheap.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>-- Tim Morris - UGS PLM Software</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV><BR> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> mdlug-bounces@mdlug.org
[mailto:mdlug-bounces@mdlug.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>David Lane<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 11, 2007 8:30 AM<BR><B>To:</B> MDLUG's Main discussion list<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [mdlug] System Build Saga<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>I will admit I misspoke about ECS being an "OFF" Bran. It looks like it will be a while until I build another system. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR><B><I>Michael Rudas <audiotech50@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On 7/10/07, David Lane <DCL400M@YAHOO.COM>wrote:<BR>> Recently there was a sale at an electronics store that when I bought a<BR>> certain CPU I got a free mother board, that was the beginning of my problems.<BR>><BR>> I have built a few (3 to be specific) systems in the so my 4th build would<BR>> be a piece of cake. WRONG, the off brand mother board was the problem.
The<BR>> motherboard that did NOT work was an "ECS" board.<BR><BR>I'm sorry to hear that you had problems, but I must point out two things:<BR><BR>1. ECS is not an "off" brand. The manufacturer is FIC, the world's<BR>largest motherboard maker. They also make the PCChips brand, among<BR>others. Just because YOU haven't heard of them doesn't make them<BR>unknown.<BR>2. A BIOS update will probably cure the problem-- motherboards, by<BR>their very nature, MUST be OS-agnostic, so a board that won't run<BR>Linux usually just needs a BIOS re-flash, or simpler still, a BIOS<BR>reset-- problems which can happen with ANY brand of mobo, believe me.<BR>Did you Google the brand and model, by the way?<BR><BR>-- Mikey<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>mdlug mailing list<BR>mdlug@mdlug.org<BR>http://mdlug.org/mailman/listinfo/mdlug<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR> <div> <HR SIZE=1> Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the <A
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