Duh.. I know that its not a GNS problem. I stated the problem I had with GNS was that they sold products with problems. And from the problems I have had, it seems alot of the products they sell have problems. Do you know more about this VIA WD problem? I have 3 Western Digital drives and I just ordered an MSI board with a VIA chipset. Hopefully I wont see the problem since my drives will use an add on Escalade 6400 ATA RAID controller, and not use the onboard IDE controller. Nick.T.Reinking at supervalu.com wrote: > Actually, I believe that problem with the hard drives was a WD problem, > in particular with the VIA south bridge. (Not a GNS problem). > > Again, Tran Micro is a top quality place. Visit 'em! > > Nick Reinking > > jasonj at innominatus.com, on 10/03/2000 08:55:06 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org @ PMDF > cc: > Subject: Re: [TCLUG:22018] MoHappy Mobo > > What kind of hard drive are you using with the K7T Pro? > We have about 6 of those boards from nano. And every single one of them > has a serious problem with Western Digital hard drives. We switched all > of them over to IBM Deskstars and now they dont give us these whack > errors anymore. (I can get an example of the error if your interested.) > Why they have problems with WDC drives, I have no idea. It doesnt make > much sense to me, but the problem is gone (or hiding until mission > critical performance is needed). > > I like Tran Micro alot, they even helped me carry the stuff I bought out > to my car! > I have worked for 2 companies that have purchased alot from General Nano. > We have been dissatisfied with the quality of components they sell. We > had bought 4 workstations from them, and within 2 months 2 of the 4 power > supplies had blown taking the board and ram with it, and left a SWEET > char mark on the case! I replaced the ram, board, and supply > (pcpowercooling) and they havent had a problem since. Another of the 4's > motherboards (Soyo) simply failed. I called up soyo tech support so they > could tell me what the post beep code was, since they didnt put it in the > manual. I let the tech hear the post beeps, "Sorry, your board done". > That was all the help he could provide. I replaced that board with a > Supermicro something or other. No problems since. > > I hope these problems are just flukes and that Nano is a good company. > > Kent Schumacher wrote: > > > Thanks everyone for yesterdays motherboard advice fest. > > > > I ended up at General Nanosystem at 3:58 yesterday, left > > at 4:17 with a (tested) MicroStar K7T pro, an 800Mhz > > Athlon TBird, 128Mb PC133, and a nice case. > > > > Went home, transferred my drives and other junk, and > > 45 minutes later I was writing code, answering > > e-mail, and playing Heavy Gear II at speeds I found > > astounding. > > > > I looked long and hard at the ASUS A7, and the net > > just reported way too many problems with this board. > > Now that I have it, I'm glad I went with the MicroStar. > > > > Thanks again, > > Kent > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org