[NCLUG] suggestions on building a box

[Matt Taggart]

Sean Reifschneider writes...

> On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:02:37AM -0700, Michael Dwyer wrote:
> >>I'm also not married to Abit or athlon. I'm looking for reliability and
> >>bang for the buck. Suggestions?
> >
> >I can't give you any /viable/ suggestions.  I can only evangelize what I 
> >currently have.  I've been using the Soyo SY-6BA (soyotek.com) series.  Its 
> 
> I've been pretty unhappy with ABit Celeron boards.

All three have mine have been great. I had a problem with the UDMA66 busses 
that were on them but a BIOS update(which also updated the IDE BIOS) fixed 
that.

> We have 3 or 4 of them
> that sometimes just won't POST if there's a CD on the same interface as
> a hard drive. 

However, I have never run any of them with more than one IDE device on a bus.

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Matt Taggart
taggart at fc.hp.com