ASrock and cold boot issue

anyone aware of the issue and know what exactly happens?

"news_reader" <> wrote in message
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> anyone aware of the issue and know what exactly happens?

Anandtech ran into it on the new uli agp/pci-e board, and hope a bios update
fixes it.

See their article.


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On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 10:38:34 -0700, "Ed Light" <>
wrote:

>
>"news_reader" <> wrote in message
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>> anyone aware of the issue and know what exactly happens?
>
>Anandtech ran into it on the new uli agp/pci-e board, and hope a bios update
>fixes it.
>
>See their article.

The board is a bit new for anyone to have much real time experience
with it, isn't it?

"J. Eric Durbin" <> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 10:38:34 -0700, "Ed Light" <>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"news_reader" <> wrote in message
>>news:PKqdnaDHp-SOzrzeRVn-...
>>> anyone aware of the issue and know what exactly happens?
>>
>>Anandtech ran into it on the new uli agp/pci-e board, and hope a bios
>>update
>>fixes it.
>>
>>See their article.
>
> The board is a bit new for anyone to have much real time experience
> with it, isn't it?
>

8 5-star reviews at newegg!

http://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/...82E16813157081


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"Ed Light" <> wrote

> 8 5-star reviews at newegg!
>
> http://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/...82E16813157081

Only one of them was from someone who actually has the board.

But he loves it.


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And 5 Star reviews at NewEgg would mean what exactly? A lot of the time the
reviewers are new to building a PC and know not what they are talking about,
or they don't even own the product, like you stated. The ASrock looks like
it has some possibilities but it's to new to mess around with right now,
although for $70 it might be fun to play around with.

OldFartJC wrote:
> And 5 Star reviews at NewEgg would mean what exactly?
> A lot of the time the reviewers are new to building a PC
> and know not what they are talking about, or they don't
> even own the product, like you stated.

And I suspect that a lot of times, less than favorable reviews
are not published. I know of at least two, by two different
people, and neither were especially harsh.

"Fishface" <?> wrote in message
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> OldFartJC wrote:
>> And 5 Star reviews at NewEgg would mean what exactly?
>> A lot of the time the reviewers are new to building a PC
>> and know not what they are talking about, or they don't
>> even own the product, like you stated.
>
> And I suspect that a lot of times, less than favorable reviews
> are not published. I know of at least two, by two different
> people, and neither were especially harsh.
>

It is their policy not to publish all the unfavorable reviews.

At least when more people who have actually used it report we'll know if all
the boards have cold boot issues.
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Ed Light wrote:

>
>
> It is their policy not to publish all the unfavorable reviews.
>
> At least when more people who have actually used it report we'll know if all
> the boards have cold boot issues.

Read the Anandtech review again!
Bios 1.20 fixes the Cold-Boot issues.
As i have the Mainboard myself i must say,great Board,but make sure it
likes your Memory,Infineon DDR400 wasn't its favourite and wouldn't get
to 400Mhz Dual channel when on Auto,had to fix it manually at 200x2
Mhz,no big issue but still a nuisance to inexperienced users i guess.
Bye,
Thomas

hey Thoms, where did you find the memory specs for the board?

"Thomas Kohl" <> wrote in message
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> Ed Light wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> It is their policy not to publish all the unfavorable reviews.
>>
>> At least when more people who have actually used it report we'll know if
>> all the boards have cold boot issues.
>
> Read the Anandtech review again!
> Bios 1.20 fixes the Cold-Boot issues.
> As i have the Mainboard myself i must say,great Board,but make sure it
> likes your Memory,Infineon DDR400 wasn't its favourite and wouldn't get to
> 400Mhz Dual channel when on Auto,had to fix it manually at 200x2 Mhz,no
> big issue but still a nuisance to inexperienced users i guess.
> Bye,
> Thomas