Somewhat OT--hdw: ECS motherboard & SBM

[Mark Jarvis]

 > FWIW, I've run several different AMD/ECS combos (ECS makes PC Chips
 > also) and have had very few problems with them.
	I'm sure that ECS makes some good mobos, my mistake was in going for 
the mobo that Fry's can sell for a super el-cheapo price.

-mj-


stu wrote:

> On Thursday 29 June 2006 23:17, Craig White wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 19:09 -0400, A LeDonne wrote:
>>
>>>On 6/29/06, Mark Jarvis <mark.jarvis at pvmail.maricopa.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Some time ago, in a moment of ill-advised penny pinching I bought one
>>>>of Fry's ECS motherboard & AMD cpu specials. (I prefer AMD cpus, it's
>>>>the cheapo mobo that has caused me the problems I've had.) I like to
>>>>have a Smart Boot Manager (SBM) diskette around as an "insurance
>>>>policy" way to boot into the various operating systems on my box. After
>>>>installing the new motherboard, I found that although it would boot
>>>>from an old DOS diskette, it wouldn't boot from an SBM diskette. I
>>>>cussed mildly & accepted it. Then Tuesday, for some reason I tried
>>>>again--whaddaya know--it worked! I figured that I must have just had a
>>>>couple of bum diskettes when I tried before. Then I tried last night
>>>>with four (4) known good SBM diskettes--including the one that had
>>>>worked on Tuesday. No dice. I even burned a couple of new diskettes
>>>>using the SBM on the Ubuntu CD. Still no dice. If that stupid board had
>>>>NEVER booted from an SBM diskette, I'd just live with it, but the fact
>>>>that it did boot correctly ONE TIME has me baffled.
>>>>
>>>>Anyone got any ideas?
>>>>
>>>>-mj-
>>>
>>>You did say diskette... wiht intermittent floppy failure I would
>>>replace the drive and the cable. My time is worth the $20 to replace
>>>first as a highly invasive troubleshooting technique.
>>
>>----
>>given the reliability factor of both floppy disks and floppy disk
>>drives, that's reasonably sage advice except for the one other bit
>>advice - don't do floppies.
>>
>>Craig
>>
> 
> 	I avoid using floppys myself if it's at all possible. When I absolutely have 
> to use one, I always run a floppy drive cleaner disk through the drive first 
> to clean out the dust.
> 	FWIW, I've run several different AMD/ECS combos (ECS makes PC Chips also) and 
> have had very few problems with them. 
> 	
> 	Stu
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