My AGP slot popped

masteen · Post by **masteen** » September 30, 2003, 11:32 am

The AGP slot in my one PC went bad. I pulled the card and the two capacitors right under it looked like they literally burst. They had corrosion all over them. The mobo was still making the happy BIOS post beep, but no video.

This ever happen to anyone else?

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » September 30, 2003, 5:12 pm

I've had caps pop on motherboards before, pre-AGP days though. It was the only component I'd ever had fail until on a MB until a couple weeks ago.

Video fan blowing on them?

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » September 30, 2003, 7:57 pm

Was it an ABit board?

Just curious.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » October 1, 2003, 12:10 pm

Aslanna wrote:Was it an ABit board?

Just curious.

Yes.

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » October 1, 2003, 1:26 pm

My personal favorite is ASUS Tek, owned about 10 different ASUS boards and only had problems with one which was an old P2 chipset - pre BX think it was an LS97... I think the chipset sucked as much as the MB though.

Marb

(currently running a very cheap shuttle MB with an athlon and it's humming along rather nicely, especailly for the price)

masteen · Post by **masteen** » October 1, 2003, 1:42 pm

I replaced it with an MSI mobo. 45 dorra, what a bargain!

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » October 1, 2003, 2:21 pm

masteen wrote:
Aslanna wrote:Was it an ABit board?

Just curious.
Yes.

Thought so. They're widely known for that problem.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » October 1, 2003, 7:05 pm

A few weeks ago I had the power supply on my second computer blow up and take out my motherboard with it. It wasnt an Abit though! It was a SoYo crapolla MB.

As for Abit, I own two of their MBs. My old Abit MB had some quality control issues. The floppy controller was broken and the memory slots were a little screwed so I had to have my second memory stick slighly pulled out of the slot for it to be recognized. My latest Abit IC7 MB works fine. It had some issues with overclocking memory above 260FSB using 5:4 ratio for awhile but after a few bios updates, that limitation was taken care of.

The Abit IC7 MB is a very well designed board. Anyone who's worked with a lot of MB's will notice the placement of various interfaces and connections were well thought out. If I was buying again today, I would grab the IC7-G though with the gigabit LAN for faster transfers between computers.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » October 2, 2003, 12:09 pm

Winnow wrote:If I was buying again today, I would grab the IC7-G though with the gigabit LAN for faster transfers between computers.

Jesus, dude. Gigabit Ethernet is fucking overkill.

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » October 2, 2003, 2:36 pm

masteen wrote:Gigabit Ethernet

Switched 100 is still faster than you can get stuff off the drives and onto the wire isn't it?

masteen · Post by **masteen** » October 2, 2003, 3:26 pm

SATA drives are going 150 mpbs IIRC, so in a 2 drive RAID 0 config, you could, theoretically, pound a 100 meg connection.

I don't see WTF you could do in a SOHO environment that would do that tho.

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » October 2, 2003, 3:39 pm

Move porn from main PC to store on server?

masteen · Post by **masteen** » October 2, 2003, 3:47 pm

I spose, Marb. God forbid you have to wait 30 extra seconds for those 10 gigs of bukkake...

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » October 2, 2003, 4:27 pm

It may be overkill. I haven't had gigbit to test it out. I transfer large files quite often between two computers, disk images for full DVDs etc. I'll read up on it and post if i find some speed tests between 100 and 1000 ethernet.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » October 7, 2003, 3:42 pm

A couple of my old clients had gigabit networks and did weekly backups that were essentially file transfers in the near terrabyte size range. With the exception of a few problems in the switches' forwarding caches, those backups were done in minutes, mostly limited by the write speed of the archive servers.

Those were on fiber, not UTP, tho. It was all fucking crazy lasers man!

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