I hate to say this, but IMHO VIA chipset is JUNK!!! Now I don't want to start a flame war and will ignore attempts to start one, but my experience was horrible. I wasted enough time with a MB using a VIA chipset to buy 2 brand name computers. I got an IWILL MB using a different chipset and my problems have gone away. I then gave the MB to my brother with the VIA chipset and he had altogether different hardware and has had nothing but trouble with it. The thing has been replaced twice. I WILL NEVER use via chipsets again and I don't say never often. I'll take a littel slower for stable ANY DAY. Just my .5 cents worth.
Bjarne Thomsen wrote: >I have previously reported disk corruption with >the ASUS A7V266E motherboard and the VIA chipset. >Then I closed the case, but too early it turned out. >We have now done extensive testing, and we can reproduce >the crashes with LM 8.2, LM 8.1, and RH 7.2. >At first we suspected the 2.4.18 kernel, but this >has not been confirmed by our testing. >We then discovered that VIA had some patches for >LM 8.2 against problems encountered under "heavy load". >Unfortunately our work involves heavy load! >We had difficulties compiling the stock LM 8.2 kernel, >but we discovered that a newer version of the VIA IDE >driver was included in the cooker 2.4.18-13 kernel. >Now we had finally solved the problem, we thought. >You guessed it. It crashed again! We have finally given up >ASUS + VIA for ECS K7S6A + SiS745. > >I shall keep you posted about the new board. > >The people having problems with LM 8.2 >should possibly check their hardware! > > -- Bjarne > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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