Comments on: Motherboards are not always your friend

By: ET3D

ET3D — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 12:59:39 +0000

I think that motherboards are
I think that motherboards are never my friends. At most they're like an annoying colleague I tolerate because he's doing a useful job (just barely).

By: Anonymouse

Anonymouse — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 08:05:33 +0000

Dealing with nvidia chipset
Dealing with nvidia chipset driver issues was one of the worst time periods of system building, running a partially broken Linux distro was the only thing I could get running stable until I could afford a new motherboard.

By: Shadowarez

Shadowarez — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 07:55:52 +0000

Yes most annoying prob why
Yes most annoying prob why raid cards were standard in my builds just to negate that issue.

By: Fritz

Fritz — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 03:12:46 +0000

In reply to quest4glory. I owned two of these, one
I owned two of these, one such I did recap and still had issues later on. The other is still working, though hasn't been powered on in a few years. Opteron 185 in that one iirc.

By: collie

collie — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 05:49:29 +0000

'member back in da day, there
'member back in da day, there was, not just a board, but a whole chipset for core2 that would, for no reason, randomly loose sata ports, like unfindable at post, change to a new port and no more problem till next time. Something 45..... I think. Member dat?

By: LegoGuy23

LegoGuy23 — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 04:21:51 +0000

I have a 990FXA-UD3 (The
I have a 990FXA-UD3 (The little brother to #3 on the list), and yeah, its horrible and it really makes me wish I had the money to upgrade my PC.

1: My RAM doesn’t OC. At all. If you try, it won’t make it past
POST.
2: I run 2 GTX 760 in SLI. Worked great. I got a new, fancy 1440p
144fps G-Sync
display. Cool!
…except for the fact that I can no longer use SLI. Either
GPU independently? Go for it! One GPU as a dedicated Phys-X
card? No problem!
SLI? Run a 3D program that uses it an instant lock up needing
me
to press the reset button on the PC.

By: quest4glory

quest4glory — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 03:02:56 +0000

They blew it by not including
They blew it by not including the Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe. Talk about a piece of shit. If there are any working boards left in existence, someone either preemptively recapped them, or the person in possession should buy more lottery tickets.

By: Goofus Maximus

Goofus Maximus — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:09:57 +0000

Ugh. This will take me down
Ugh. This will take me down a memory lane I do not wish to revisit! Bad boards, bad boards! Whatch'ya gonna do? Whatch'ya gonna do when they come for you? I think dealing with motherboard BIOS(es) was even more of a pain than fiddling with AT strings for recalcitrant modems, back in my BBS/Door-game days.

By: Mr.Gold

Mr.Gold — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 21:31:36 +0000

I have an nforce motherboard
I have an nforce motherboard still running 24/7 since late 2006,
it never worked right but was more than good enough.

The LAN chip died a few years ago, and the integrated video died like the first year.

Amazingly I prefer bios from 20 years ago then today.

Today ASUS and MSI bios drive me nuts. So sluggish, so unresponsive.
They feel like look over function, a scattered mess.
Good thing this is something you open and use like once of twice in the life of the PC.

So to me at least, yes less jumper is nice.. but bios went “RGB” (backward)