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<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>
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<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>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>-- Tim Morris - UGS PLM
Software</FONT></DIV>
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<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>
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<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>
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<DIV><BR><B><I>Michael Rudas <audiotech50@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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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>
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