JSF35rhino
[H]ard|Gawd
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worst all time motherboards you've had to deal with , old or new please be as specific as you can about make, model and chipest . . so please don't just post- maker such and such sucks . and DOA's don't count .
it has to work just long enough to drive you crazy--LOL
# 1 i remember an obscure MB for the pentium 2 called
"kimpo" it had a via such and such chipset as i recall --back in the 66 fsb day. i got a batch of them--every one of them was super flakey re-booters many hours wasted trying to get up to just run--
# 2 another not quite stable MB/cpu
PMQ or PQM ?? (? i think) althon with the 751 irongate chipset and a a 500cpu and sdram 168 pin
i remember trying cheap ram- to expensive mushkin- several diffrent psu"s all the way up to a staggering 300w powerhouse-(yea way back then) and it was still crash prone--yea it was running win 98/ 98 se --this was my first big $$$ system
--but it was a dissipointment -wouldn't overclock much and had stability problems my old cheap sis/k6 wasn't as fast but it didn't crash (much)--LOL--this was supposed to be their big comback MB-- bought it of reviews on the net talking about how stable it was-- (reviews don't lie ?)
# 3 Epox with via 333ce chipset -- well after having great results from the epox/AMD 761 setup i thought i would get the newer board with the then new via 333ce chipset --thinking i was going to overclock the t-breads--well this was the leading edge of the bad-caps
out of a batch of 10--all had severe problems one of them even melted the cpu socket ! 5 jillion calls to epox and a million run arounds several bios updates-ram changes ect--notheing worked --my jobber had to eat some of them as well as myself--the whole deal kind of soured me on epox i haven't bought a thing epox since. hopefully their better now i've had a few batches of bad mb's since--but nothing like a 10 out of 10 flakeys back to back .
it has to work just long enough to drive you crazy--LOL
# 1 i remember an obscure MB for the pentium 2 called
"kimpo" it had a via such and such chipset as i recall --back in the 66 fsb day. i got a batch of them--every one of them was super flakey re-booters many hours wasted trying to get up to just run--
# 2 another not quite stable MB/cpu
PMQ or PQM ?? (? i think) althon with the 751 irongate chipset and a a 500cpu and sdram 168 pin
i remember trying cheap ram- to expensive mushkin- several diffrent psu"s all the way up to a staggering 300w powerhouse-(yea way back then) and it was still crash prone--yea it was running win 98/ 98 se --this was my first big $$$ system
--but it was a dissipointment -wouldn't overclock much and had stability problems my old cheap sis/k6 wasn't as fast but it didn't crash (much)--LOL--this was supposed to be their big comback MB-- bought it of reviews on the net talking about how stable it was-- (reviews don't lie ?)
# 3 Epox with via 333ce chipset -- well after having great results from the epox/AMD 761 setup i thought i would get the newer board with the then new via 333ce chipset --thinking i was going to overclock the t-breads--well this was the leading edge of the bad-caps
out of a batch of 10--all had severe problems one of them even melted the cpu socket ! 5 jillion calls to epox and a million run arounds several bios updates-ram changes ect--notheing worked --my jobber had to eat some of them as well as myself--the whole deal kind of soured me on epox i haven't bought a thing epox since. hopefully their better now i've had a few batches of bad mb's since--but nothing like a 10 out of 10 flakeys back to back .