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Joshua Hoblitt, mused, then expounded: |
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> In the past Tyan has had _wonderful_ support and I have literally dozens |
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> of their motherboards in production systems. I even have a Tyan board |
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> in my home system. However, after this most recent experience I most |
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> likely going to be investigating SuperMicro boards now they they support |
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> Opterons. |
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Don't expect Supermicro's tech support to be better. In many cases the |
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questions have to be fed to the local techs, asked by them to the mothership |
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in Taiwan and then replied back to. |
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And while their BMC works well with ipmi 1.8.9 or web browser, they sometimes |
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do upgrades in the middle of board runs that eliminates some usefulness - like |
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the web browser. Still, they're a lot better than many other vendors out |
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there. Though Tyan is still my preferred vendor. |
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On the original subject - my Tyan S2885 is still running strong as my office |
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workstation, since 2006. More than I can say for the ECS ATI R690 chipset |
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I had to upgrade to at home due to a failing system - way too easy to lock it up. |
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Bob |
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