<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><p> 
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