[mdlug] System Build Saga

[Robert Adkins]

Personally, I prefer ASUS and maybe MSI products.

My current "main rig" originally had an MSI board. They did a piss-poor 
job of designing the cooling system on the mainboard. I was suffering 
from a series of heat related shutdowns. In the end, it turned out that 
the entire problem was related to the Northbridge chip overheating 
something fierce.

Right now, I have the extra guts to rebuild a second PC. I just need to 
fabricate or replace the entire mainboard chip cooling system to have it 
run properly...

The ASUS Board I replaced it with has been operating awesomely.

-Rob


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Subject: Re:[mdlug] System Build Saga
From: David Lane <dcl400m at yahoo.com>
To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 8:54:10 AM
> Now I'm a fan of MSI ans ASUS (This is the only mother board that has 
> the nifty little sticker you can put in the front of your case. LOL)
>
> */"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
>      
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *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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