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Subject: FIC PA-2011
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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 14:59:55 -0700
From: John Milford <jwm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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	I recently purchased one of these boards, and was very
disappointed with it, and with the response (or rather lack of
response) from FIC.  The board would not work with the external cache
enabled irregardless of how conservatively I set the other CMOS
settings.  After struggling with it for a while I had my supplier
order a second board, and that turned out to have the exact same
problem.  (This was tested w/ an Intel Pentium 100 just to make sure
it was really the board causing the trouble, and not the K6).  I was
really let down by this because I wanted the VIA VP2 chipset, and
this board seems to be the only way to get it.  I switched to
an ASUS P55T2P4 and everything is happy now.  Just wanted to warn
everyone about it.


		--John