Hello webmedic,
Friday, Friday, September 03, 1999, you wrote:
We are an OEM...
And we do sell pc's made with various chipsets.
As mentioned there are few alternatives for AMD's
And there are Via boards and via boards.
Now oddball/instability problems were on several boards with a lot of
hardwork traced back to 2 main reasons:
1. most powersupplies used in PC's are qua power still designed to run
486...
ie most systems run a powersupply which is absolutely inadaquate to
run all that stuff people tend to hang on it.
Added, AMD uses a LOT of power.
2. many of the AlI chipset boards use lousy/cheapo power regulators on
the motherboard.
3. Interesting in ONE case I replaced the old powersupply by a real
heavy duty power supply (300 watt plus) and the previous unstable
system now ran for about 10 minutes and then literally went up in
flames.... In short power regulator on the board isnt working
properly, wants more power but cannot get it and AMD doesnt like
that, Give it more and they kill each other...
After the board burned I put the AMD in a similar board and essentially that also
fried.
(as I wasnt attached to the board I didnt mind one bit at all, one
problem less!)
I checked with a friend who tests hardware professionaly for companies
who get stuck with their design and acc to him the regulators can blow
the chip and vv, especially with AMD so if you have cheaply made
boards...
Essentially they cannot cope and severe instability can occur.
On one case we got caught: I gave a sample board to a friend to play
with and he loved it. So we got a few more, made on a local internet
machine with an AMD, no problems, ALL the others had problems and
essentially the only stable chips I could run in it were certain
pentiums.
Then the original board was getting reaing errors during suse
instalations and I have seen it blow up in front of my eyes. One of
the chips on the motherboard smoked/cracked and the AMD was also dead.
we ended up dumping the remaining boards (only a few as I had smelled
a rat...)
w> One comment here I sell computers for a living. Here is some
w> free advice stay away from the via chip set. It even causes
w> problems with windows. I had to learn the hard way. Even under
w> windows there are unexplainable problems but they are the same
w> every time. Also they disappear as soon as I use for instance an
w> asus mb which uses the other chip set. And thanks for this post
w> because I was just getting ready to get rid of my fic mb in my
w> personal computer and this explains why I'm having trouble with
w> a few things
w> On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote:
>> > > What's your chipset and CPU? What amount of RAM?
>> >
>> > AMD K6-2 450 MHz, 128 MB RAM, VIA chipset...
>> >
>>
>> VIA again! Mamma mia!
>>
>> > > Have you compiled in APM support? If yes, does the kernel boot if you
>> > > remove it?
>> >
>> > Funny, that was never a problem before, but I'll try it out...
>> >
>> > Greets and btw. thanks for the fast response
>>
>> np :) But I'd really like to sort out that VIA chipset stuff. All the
>> people I know who have such a chipset on their motherboard have had
>> problems (from massive disk corruption to "kernel wont boot"-style
>> problems).
>>
>> Re: APM, and related (again!) to VIA, I know a guy with a K6-2 CPU and
>> a VIA chipset as well who has had disk corruption problems, but on power
>> off the kernel would just oops...
>>
>> Ban VIA!
>>
>> --
>> fg
>>
>> # rm *;o
>> o: command not found
Best regards,
tracer
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