[mdlug] ECS A770M-A motherboard SATA controller failure

[Jeff Hanson]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally, I've had good success with motherboards from
> a company called DFI (back in the 1990's, althought a guy
> at the shop (Stone Computer) said they had problems with
> them.
>
> My last couple of motherboards have by Gigabyte.
> Not a problem with either one.

I've used a lot of brands/models over the years and had little
problems outside of bad caps.  I usually don't overclock.  The last
Gigabyte model I bought was a GA-MA770-DS3 for my AMD Phenom 9550
system.  The system has been very unstable.  The first MB/CPU/RAM was
sent back and replaced.  The replacements have been marginally better
but I still get occasional RAM corruption and have to power cycle the
system to correct it.  Since the CPU has an integrated memory
controller I don't know who to blame yet.  I waiting for a new ASUS
M3A78-EM to arrive to see if it works better.

> My HP dv8330us laptop has been more of a pain (primarily
> the touchpad spuriously taking input when I'm typing as
> a deliberate tap, and moving the typing cursor to wherever
> the mouse-cursor is located -- annoyance to no end, as
> this usually happens when I'm ... answering e-mail.

Does that use a Synaptics touchpad?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=271052