On Wednesday 08 January 2003 22:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Steffen Barszus wrote: > > I know 3 people who run instantly into problems with these board I would > > never ever advice an ECS k7s5a. MSI kosts a buck more, but I think it is > > worth the money. And the k7s5a is not the cheapest board, I know of one > > board for 67 EUR => KT266A chipset DDR/SDRAM and so on. I don't remember > > the name right now, but I can ask if needed. > > The original revs had several problems. If anyone decides to get this > board it's important to get the rev 3.1 or there will be problems with > stability, sound and the onboard NIC. During my research for this board > I did run into a lot of disgruntled users of this board, but this has > lessened considerably and most of the recent reviews are positive. > > The Mandrake 9.0 I'm running on the K7S5A has an Athlon 1800XP, NVidia > GeForceMX200 (the cheapest one), Linksys NIC since I didn't opt for the > onboard NIC, and onboard sound. > > As for MSI, I've had lots of bad luck with some earlier SlotA boards > (10/10 failed) and have since stayed clear of them. Have you had > experience with the MSI board? I'll keep them in mind for the next bulk > purchase.
I have a really good experience with my board- It is nothing near uptodate, I have an MSI 6330 V3 aka KT7Pro2A (kt133A) I run it since 2 years without any problems no matter which OS, and I know 2 other people as well, without any problems. The board I suggested above is as I remember from a company that is rebuilder of Asus, you could say LowCost-Asus (or was it Abit? -f* brain) The board I mentioned is NOT from MSI !!! As I ve read my posting it can be understood false. Maybe I can give more infos tomorrow -- ____________________ counter.li.org : #296567. machine: 181800 vdr-box : 87 ____________________ Please dont CC me, since if I have replied I'll watch the tread. Both mails will be filtered to the ML-folder. Thanks
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