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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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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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