From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 6 23:38:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDBAF37B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 23:38:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from web1.nexusinternetsolutions.net (web1.nexusinternetsolutions.net [206.47.131.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1818643E4A for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 23:38:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dave@hawk-systems.com) Received: (qmail 638 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2002 07:42:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ws1) (24.157.103.51) by web1.nexusinternetsolutions.net with SMTP; 7 Nov 2002 07:42:04 -0000 From: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" To: "Ralph Forsythe" , "Peter Brezny" Cc: Subject: RE: new motherboard for router system Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 02:38:31 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Not sure what you should use, but I would say stay away from Abit. There >was a recent story on slashdot about motherboards with inferior capacitors >self destructing - most of the readers comments suggested Abit was the >worst of them all. a few months ago I would have disagreed with you as I have had fabulous experience with ABIT over approximately 25 or so workstations and servers... recently have experienced failure in 3 ABIT BF6 motherboards.. which either simply stopped being responsive (no POST at all), or alarmed without POSTing (while impossible to be temperature replated). Have 1 more of this model in production... and it is slated for replacement this weekend before we have another inopportune failure. As such, I would agree, stay away from ABIT, or at the least, buyer beware... there evidently is a lifespan ofsome fo the componants. :( Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message