[geeks] Interesting low-end MB found for current Intel CPUs

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Jan 30, 2008, at 3:00 AM, Mark wrote:
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>
> The K7S5A was a AMD Socket A (Althon XP/Duron) board with a SiS
> chipset that stands in history as possibly (at least IMHO) one of the
> single worst motherboard models ever made. They had issues with
> forgetting the BIOS settings completely. Sometimes they'd run the
> battery flat in a year (something I've never had in any other PC) and


The problems I have seen were all related to the capacitors bloating up.

Oddly, for the first time, last night I saw a Cisco switch with  
exactly the same problem.

Cordially

Patrick Giagnocavo
patrick at zill.net