Eberhard Roloff wrote: > clive wrote: >> Hello Group, >> >> Had my old motherboard SIS chip set go down last week. The motherboard >> died and took my Athlon 2400 XP with it. >> >> Now I have an ASUS motherboard with on board VIA*Delta Chrome graphics. <snip> >> Best wishes, >> >> Clive. >>From my experience, it is not really Asus to be blamed (ok, I know, this > is an unpopular statement) but it is your onboard VIA Delta Chrome stuff. > Okay, lastly it might be your lousy day since you bought such a board. ;-)) > > My advice: Change that and buy a graphics adapter from Nvidia (well ATI > is working, as well). Even if you use the cheapest GPU, that money can > buy you, you will get WAY MORE performance and you can forget about your > trouble. > > just my 0.2 cents > Eberhard
FWIW (not even 0.2 of a cent :) I have an MSI board with onboard VIA Chrome. I had continual problems - mouse suddenly shooting to a corner of the screen, video flicker etc - that all went away when I bought a cheap nvidia card. So I second Eberhard's advice if you can afford it. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
