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On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 08:53 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 17:49:38 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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> <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > no, there is a problem with VIA and PCI in general, not promise related. |
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> > If you want to use your pci-bus for more than moving data to the soundcard, |
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> > via has a long history of pci-quirks that makes it a dubious choice for a |
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> > stable environment. That is all. I do not trust via boards. |
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> Interesting. I have no such experience. I use multiple Via boards |
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> today and have no trouble with the ones I own. Certainly the problem |
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> could be out there but I haven't experienced it. |
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> Sometimes these reputations are very old and hard to live down. Intel |
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> also made chipsets that clearly didn't do PCI correctly at one time. |
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> They got past it. My thought is that Via's reputation may be worse |
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> than today's reality... |
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I had an older BX board with a Via chipset. Then I saw an article |
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somewhere (/. or maybe tomshardware?) that said Via chipsets had |
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problems with the PCI bus. |
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I checked and it was true. But I hadn't noticed it until then so take |
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that for what it's worth. |
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Dave Erickson <linuser@××××.us> |
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