I've had my fair share of Abit motherboards, you could say I have been somewhat loyal, I have had all of about 7-10 abit motherboards in my computer history.
Mostly they were pretty good, but there has always been some sort of underlying problem, something wierd and obscure, or something common.
Just for interests sake, I'm going to list some of these wierd problems, I would like to hear other peoples experiences with what ever brand motherboard they have had, so please chime in with your problems over the years.
My first [H]ard core enthusiast system was an Abit KT7-133R with an XP2000+ and half a gig of ram (unheard of when it was new, the days of Windows 98, you had to "hack" 98 just to get it to run half a gig of ram). it was a beast, but due to the fact that I had a SB Live, there was a little issue called the VIA PCI latency bug, where, if you played sound while copying files from here to there, the files would be corrupted.
not long after that DDR came around, I upgraded to the Abit KX7333-R and a gig if DDR400, switched to the Thoroughbred B XP2000+ and overclocked like there was no tomorrow, however, something strange happened, when booting, my mouse would not detect (MS Intelli mouse) the problem occurred more if the mouse was plugged in to an extension cable, and you would have to unplug the thing several times to get it to work, after an expensive mouse upgrade (Explorer 3) problem solved, one more thing, my monitor would not power off when shutting down the PC, Expensive video card upgrade (Radeon 8500) problem solved, but why should any of this be a problem from a simple mobo upgrade??
A bit longer goes by and now I have an Athlon 64 with an Abit A8N and 2 gig of ram, only the ram I have has not been tested with my motherboard, and it throws errors when testing the ram, are we going backwards?? these are some of the most common memory modules around (Winbond) and they won't work on my motherboard??
One final gripe I have, I have a couple of servers, no video cards, I just use remote desktop, these motherboards are happy to boot without a video card, as long as you set the BIOS not to stop if no video is present (Asus and Soltek) after upgrading my mobo, I put my old on in one of my server and find out that Abit does not support this feature!! forget emailing them and asking for a BIOS update, they will NEVER reply (I have emailed them regarding numerous issues and never had a response), other companies are only too happy to help (I have had a response from Soltek within 24 hours).
So I'm fed up with Abit, next mobo is probably going to be Asus.
Mostly they were pretty good, but there has always been some sort of underlying problem, something wierd and obscure, or something common.
Just for interests sake, I'm going to list some of these wierd problems, I would like to hear other peoples experiences with what ever brand motherboard they have had, so please chime in with your problems over the years.
My first [H]ard core enthusiast system was an Abit KT7-133R with an XP2000+ and half a gig of ram (unheard of when it was new, the days of Windows 98, you had to "hack" 98 just to get it to run half a gig of ram). it was a beast, but due to the fact that I had a SB Live, there was a little issue called the VIA PCI latency bug, where, if you played sound while copying files from here to there, the files would be corrupted.
not long after that DDR came around, I upgraded to the Abit KX7333-R and a gig if DDR400, switched to the Thoroughbred B XP2000+ and overclocked like there was no tomorrow, however, something strange happened, when booting, my mouse would not detect (MS Intelli mouse) the problem occurred more if the mouse was plugged in to an extension cable, and you would have to unplug the thing several times to get it to work, after an expensive mouse upgrade (Explorer 3) problem solved, one more thing, my monitor would not power off when shutting down the PC, Expensive video card upgrade (Radeon 8500) problem solved, but why should any of this be a problem from a simple mobo upgrade??
A bit longer goes by and now I have an Athlon 64 with an Abit A8N and 2 gig of ram, only the ram I have has not been tested with my motherboard, and it throws errors when testing the ram, are we going backwards?? these are some of the most common memory modules around (Winbond) and they won't work on my motherboard??
One final gripe I have, I have a couple of servers, no video cards, I just use remote desktop, these motherboards are happy to boot without a video card, as long as you set the BIOS not to stop if no video is present (Asus and Soltek) after upgrading my mobo, I put my old on in one of my server and find out that Abit does not support this feature!! forget emailing them and asking for a BIOS update, they will NEVER reply (I have emailed them regarding numerous issues and never had a response), other companies are only too happy to help (I have had a response from Soltek within 24 hours).
So I'm fed up with Abit, next mobo is probably going to be Asus.