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ElJerid wrote:
>>>I've seen somewhere that Asrock was a Chinese daughter company of Astek
>>>intended to allow Asus to compete with companies like Elite eo in the
>>>motherboard entry market. So recently I decided to purchase my first
>
> Asrock
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>>>P4VT8, where the box mentioned plenty of nice features, all at a very
>
> nice
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>>>price.
>>>When installing however, I discovered a lot of "anomalies". Some
>
> examples:
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>>>- the board has 2 SATA connectors, but drivers have to be loaded from
>>>diskettes at initial setup in order to recognize SATA drives;
>>
>>That's about the OS, not the mobo
>
>
> That's what I thought first, so I returned the Win XP CD to the dealer where
> it was tested and appeared to install without problems. So I took it back
> home and tried an install on 2 othersPC's without problems.
*sigh*
It's not about the cd. And the hardware was not identical.
>
>
>>>- when shutting down the computer, power is still delivered to on-board
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> USB
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>>>connectors, resulting in USB devices (6 in 1 card readers, for ex)with
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> leds
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>>>always on;
>>
>>That's normal. Same with PS/2 ports. ATX always has some power going to
>>the ports.
>
>
> Right, but not at the point that the leds on a card reader remain on when
> power is down.
>
>
>>>- the board crashes randomly (up to 3 - 4 times a day);
>>
>>The board doesn't crash, windows does.
>
>
> Also just after a clean install, and without any application installed or
> running ???
Yes. You need to learn:
1. about your hardware, and just about hardware in general
2. about software, and specifically OSes
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>
>>>- the temp and voltage reports of the board are wrong: cpu temp is
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> mostly at
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>>>72°C (although feeling cold), -12 V is reported -0.17 V, and so on.
>>
>>Where did you get those readings?
>
>
> As well from Sandra as from Aida 32
Try the BIOS next time, but that should be identical. If not, you'll
discover why many people don't trust those programs you've cited.
>
>
>>>- there is no dual channel DDR available (but I must say dual-channel is
>
> not
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>>>mentioned on the box);
>>
>>You don't know your chipsets.
>
>
> Right. That's why I mentioned it was not on the box, but only an expectation
> from me due to the fact that I always used i868 or i875.
Again, it has abolutely no bearing here, except to illustrate that you
know just enough to get yourself in strife (or get yourself
disappointed). It's not a bad thing, we all start out somewhere.
>
>
>>>- installation of windows 2000 worked normally, but install of Win XP
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> was
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>>>totally impossible (Win setup freezes early, at "press F6 to load
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> additional
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>>>disk drivers").
>>
>>This is a windows issue, not a mobo issue.
>
>
> Don't believe. I think it's an incompatibility between OS and the P4VT8, or
> the P4VT8 is defective !
There are hardware incompatibilities. An 'OS incompatibility' is a
problem with the OS and the programming.
>
>>>This could have been an isolated single bad experience, but I did some
>>>search on the net and encountered a lot of idenditical or similar
>>>experiences.
>>
>>Because there are a lot of similarly inexperienced people who know just
>>enough to get themselves stuck.
>
>
> Maybe, but there are many, all with analog problems.
You mean analogous, right?
> And although not an
> "expert", I'm not "inexperienced", as I installed more than 100 individual
> PC's (I mean not auto-installs through a network), mostly in sophisticated
> video capture and editing configurations..
Yes, anyone can click 'yes' and 'OK' and 'I Accept' and fill in a few
numbers. You're at the level of knowledge where if you push yourself a
little further, you'll break through and understand how much there is to
know, and how little any one person will be able to know in terms of
computers (both hardware and software).
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spammage trappage: replace fishies_ with yahoo
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