The ETEQ chipset is a remaned VIA Apollo MVP3. I have a cheap motherboard with
this chipset and I've had absolutely no problems with any OS, except Win99
(yeah, me too!). Maybe there's some incompatibility between win98 and the MVP3.
In linux it works great, no problems at all.
Matt Stegman, escribi�:
> Not exactly what you were asking for, but I thought I'd add that I have a
> SOYO Socket 7 motherboard which uses the ETEQ chipset. I can't find much
> documentation on it anywhere, but I've never had a problem with it. It
> works spectacularly. Mine supports PC100 SDRAM, AGP2x, and runs an AMD
> 300MHz CPU on a 100MHz FSB. It was definitely cheaper than Intel
> solutions (that's why I bought it) and it has turned out to work great in
> every OS I've tried (with the sole exception of Windows 98). It runs
> NT 4.0, Windows 95, Linux, and BeOS. I didn't try very hard to track down
> my Win98 problem; that may or may not be related to the motherboard. With
> any other OS, I didn't have to jump through any hoops at all to get things
> to work.
>
> -Matt Stegman
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
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