[geeks] Ahh, the smell of Athlon's burning up

[Shawn Wallbridge]

The Tyan board was probably within the ATX specification, but lots of cases
don't follow it.

Depending on the chipset, I am not surprised ISA didn't work too well. I had
no problems with my Tyan Tiger 100 (BX chipset), but I didn't keep the ISA
board very long. But without swapping in another motherboard with the same
chipset, it's hard to blame the motherboard. Did you load the latest BIOS,
chipset drivers, firmware?

shawn

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From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of Joshua D Boyd
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 1:20 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] Ahh, the smell of Athlon's burning up


On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 12:00:53PM -0500, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> See, I have been using Tyan for years. I consider them THE best
manufacturer
> of x86 motherboards.
>
> My ranking of motherboards....
>
> Tyan - rock solid, but no overclocking (generally)

When I got my tyan board, I ran into several problems.  First, it didn't fit
my supposedly standard ATX case.  I had to get out a tin snips to modify the
case (the drive bays interfered with the top front corner of the board).
This
probably isn't Tyan's fault.

Second, I haven't been able to get a single ISA board to work in the
machine.
This made the machine end up costing hundreds more than I expected, trying
to find the problem.  With an ISA card, the machine work work fine, but then
it would crash, and hard, after about 5-10 minutes.

> Asus - solid, some overclocking, but still stable
> Abit - Fast, can be stable, but not what I would call solid
> MSI  - Undecided, we have tons of them and we haven't had any problems,
but

I have a mystery board (I knew what it was when I got it, but I forget now.
It was an A name, like Asus, Aopen, Abit, one of those) and a shuttle board.
Not thrilled with either.

--
Joshua D. Boyd