On 05/06/2006 James L. Sims wrote:
> I am not impressed with ASUS web support. After all the great reviews
> about ASUS, that was a letdown.
IME Asus are one of the better mfr's, with generally solid boards and a
decent record of fixing things that don't quite work. I have used them a
lot - 3 her
This particular Gigabyte has 8 sata ports with two FRAIDs. I figure once
the horsepower of the machine is not enough, it will be at the very
least a good server. I lost count of the USB portsl but I believe it has
12. Also two 1394B (yes, the 800mbps) firewire. Also two lans. Dual
bios, so you can
My previous machine had a Gigabyte MB and I really liked it. So far,
I'm not impressed. It's also my first experience with Nvidia chipset
drivers - I was ready for anything else, given my experience with VIA.
I may go back to Gigabyte, sooner than later.
Jim
gary wrote:
>I guess I should say A
I guess I should say Asus mobos anymore. It used to be my mobo of choice.
http://www.iometer.org/
To some degree you can measure disk i/o with the program, though it
really flogs your whole system.
gary wrote:
> FWIW, I don't build PCs using Asus mobos. I find I get a better bang for
> you buck
FWIW, I don't build PCs using Asus mobos. I find I get a better bang for
you buck with Gigabyte. I've built two systems using the GA-k8n Ultra-9
(x64 and Suse 10.0)
If you are using onboard raid (often known as FRAID for fake raid), it
won't be blazing. I use the onboard raid myself as I really ca
Charles,
After I went through a miserable seven hours fighting a blue screen
error on startup after the first attempt at installing new chipset
drivers, I finally managed to get the new drivers installed and the
reader seems to be functioning properly.
I have responded to your questions below.
I
Tony Sleep wrote:
>On 04/06/2006 James L. Sims wrote:
>
>
>> But just as the restart was completing, I encountered the
>>much feared blue screen. I wont bore anyone with the details but I
>>finally was up and running some seven hours later, with the updated
>>drivers.
>>
>>
>
>Oh I hate weekend
On 04/06/2006 James L. Sims wrote:
> But just as the restart was completing, I encountered the
> much feared blue screen. I wont bore anyone with the details but I
> finally was up and running some seven hours later, with the updated
> drivers.
Oh I hate weekends like that :-}
Too often, by hal
Sorry I have been out of this loop for a while. On taking advice to
update the BIOS and chipset drivers, I checked the Asus site for
updates. There is an "auto update" for the BIOS and a list of chipset
drivers on their website. Asus may make a great motherboard but their
web support leaves much
Not trying to start an argument here (this post is getting too long
already, plus it's really gone off subject), but I still stand by what I
said -- self-powered devices will typically run from a non-powered USB port.
Case in point: My current machine has 4 USB-2 ports on the backplane, into
which
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