[mdlug] System Build Saga

[David Lane]

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 arduous result.  It just took alot to get there.
   
   
  
"Morris, Tim" <tmorris at ugs.com> wrote:
      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...
   
  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.
   
  --  Tim Morris - UGS PLM Software
   

    
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  From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of David Lane
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 8:30 AM
To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
Subject: Re: [mdlug] System Build Saga


  
  I will admit I misspoke about ECS being an "OFF" Bran.  It looks like it will be a while until I build another system.  
   
   
  
Michael Rudas <audiotech50 at gmail.com> wrote:
  On 7/10/07, David Lane wrote:
> Recently there was a sale at an electronics store that when I bought a
> certain CPU I got a free mother board, that was the beginning of my problems.
>
> I have built a few (3 to be specific) systems in the so my 4th build would
> be a piece of cake. WRONG, the off brand mother board was the problem. The
> motherboard that did NOT work was an "ECS" board.

I'm sorry to hear that you had problems, but I must point out two things:

1. ECS is not an "off" brand. The manufacturer is FIC, the world's
largest motherboard maker. They also make the PCChips brand, among
others. Just because YOU haven't heard of them doesn't make them
unknown.
2. A BIOS update will probably cure the problem-- motherboards, by
their very nature, MUST be OS-agnostic, so a board that won't run
Linux usually just needs a BIOS re-flash, or simpler still, a BIOS
reset-- problems which can happen with ANY brand of mobo, believe me.
Did you Google the brand and model, by the way?

-- Mikey
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