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"Gibbs" <BGStock@Bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> How do you see this motherboard compared to other manufactures in terms of
> price, features and stability.
I have experience with the 8KNXP rev. 1 non-Ultra and two Asus P4C800's, all
running XP Pro. I have the GB running here with 2gb of Kingston CL3 RAM and
it has been very stable for 13 months now, having experienced only two
unprovoked crashes (both from a Norton Protection driver, NPDRIVER.SYS) in
that period, both while booting. This problem first occurred months ago,
then again one month ago, and hasn't occurred since. I don't blame the mobo
for this anomaly.
Two friends have the Asus and they are also satisfied, although both have
had very minor problems as above. One has a very irritating bug in the AMI
bios that causes the boot sequence to revert to default if any IDE drive is
removed. This occurs when drives in mobile racks are installed, then
removed, for cloning in Norton Ghost. It is very irritating and my only fix
was to install a PCI card to drive these removable drives, which isn't part
of the chipset, thus not controlled by the bios.
If you don't need the six-phase power thingie, etc., I'd look into another
model. I'm not using it because it interferes with my Zalman cooler, but
when I bought this board 875i was new and I don't think there were nearly
the choices available now.