pc chips 810 O/S loading problem

[purplestar]

I've been building some basic systems using the PC Chips 810 Mobo, and have had problems loading an O/S on a number of occasions. When the O/S starts to load it keeps stopping saying the CD is dirty and to clean it. I have used a number of different makes of CD drive and a number of IDE configurations, including cables, and O/S discs -originals! The basic systems I have been building are: 810 mobo, 20hdd, 128 sdram and standard CD rom drives various makes. Anybody help?

Thanks!

 

[dakota81]

My advice is to take back those PcChips motherboards - I personally would not use one if I were given it for free! ECS makes some super-cheap motherboards with a lot of integrated parts, check into them if price is a top concern.

Seriously, every PcChips motherboard has some different quirk that makes working with them a major headache. One board I had kept crashing on fresh installs of Windows. Another board would not work at nearly any motherboard speed - I had to set up the 450MHz cpu i had at 95x4.5 = 428MHz as the only way the system would get past the bios screen. And yet another would not work well with Hewlett-Packard printer drivers, repeatidly crashing a fresh install of Windows. And all of their Super Socket 7 boards came with a driver cd that was incomplete; you could not install the network card drivers because a couple files were missing, and their website at the time was first off hard to find anything, then once got to downloading, seriously was at something like .2Kbits / sec (that's .02KBytes / sec), it took me about 3 hours on an ISDN connection to get the network drivers (and that's _after_ repeated dropped connections on their end because of their slow speed).

With the low prices of parts today and especially with SiS's latest chipsets out there, there's absolutely no reason to go with a PcChips motherboard - the headaches suffered are definately not worth the few dollars you save with a system built with their motherboards.

 

[paparazi]

The ECS K7SEM motherboard is almost identical with onboard VGA/sound/lan and modem with header, but it uses Award Bios and is definately a more reliable choice at near identical price. Martin Just trying to help, sometimes falling short, I am only human after all.