[geeks] Dual CPU PC Motherboards?

[Dan Sikorski]

On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 00:38, Kevin wrote:
> Of course i'm sure every mobo manufacturer has had at least a
> few customer complaints before, but i for one will never buy
> another Gigabyte mobo.

I'm prejudiced against Tyan, but that's just me.
 
> I bought a 6BXDU (if i remember the model number correctly)
> back in 1999.  Cost was around $450.  Bought one of the first
> GeForce cards in 2000 and it would not work in that machine,  
> Found out later that that mobo, and a few others form Gigabyte
> didn't fully support the AGP spec.  They didn't supply the
> correct voltage.  I went to look for a support number to call
> and found none, just an email address to some tech support
> people who took a week to respond and who were no help in the
> end.

A friend of mine had this exact problem with a Tyan board.  IIRC, it's a
matter of that chipset not supporting the correct voltage.  And it was
not well known by ANYONE that the chipset had the problem.  His board
would work just fine with, for example, a nvidia TNT based AGP card, but
the geforce cards would make it puke.  He had the board sent to tyan
several times, once even sending the geforce card to tyan along with the
motherboard to have them look at it.  Eventually, he talked to an
engineer that told him that it would never work, and that there was
nothing they could do about it (this was after going back and forth with
them for something like 8 months) and that board would never work with a
geforce.


	-Dan Sikorski