Allen Weiner wrote: > On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 11:07 -0500, Adam wrote: > >>> >> A lot of newsgroups to check... which is a Good Thing. :-) This Compaq >> uses an ECS motherboard, 945GCT-HM, but that appears to be a custom >> design for HP, as it's not listed on ECS's web site, although there are >> 945GCT-M and similar names but the boards are slightly different. > > The newsgroup alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.elitegroup is the motherboard > newsgroup for ECS. I did a quick browse of it. It's low activity, and > has lots of spam, but it might be worth a try. I also did a quick search > of Google groups using the search terms: ECS motherboard. Two other > newsgroups (high activity ones) stood out: alt.comp.hardware and > alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt.
Usenet news was a good idea back in the day, but it has gone so far down hill post Canter & Siegel that I generally ignore it. I find searching Google to be much more productive use of my time as it has a much better signal to noise ratio. Jim
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