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On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 12:05:41 -0600, Dave Erickson <linuser@××××.us> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 08:53 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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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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I'm sure what you saw was real, for that Via chipset, but not |
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necessarily for all Via chipsets. If we still had access to Intel |
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Saturn or Neptune chipsets I could show you problems with Intel also. |
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Whether the same chipset in a later revision, or a newer Via chipset, |
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has the same problem is not clear. That's my only point here. Via has |
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problems. Intel has problems. SiS has problems. (Lots of problems!) |
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Right now I'm using an ATI chipset in this laptop. It seems to have a |
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couple of compatibility problems. It's the nature of semiconductor |
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design. However, over time these things tend to get fixed so I don't |
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limit myself to saying that one specific company is 'bad' at PCI. (Or |
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anything else.) |
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Heck - the chip designer that did your chipset and caused problems, |
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knowingly or unknowingly, probably no longer work at Via anymore |
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anyway! ;-) |
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- Mark |
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