PcChips = cheap filth

[Mankymole]

Hi everyone, i'm a new user as i decided to sign-up coz you all seem like real nice people and help alot :)

But I got a problem which i'm sure is related to my PC Chips m810lmr cheap crapy mother board.

The thing is that my Geforce4 MX440 makes the system very unstable and causes it to jam or freeze or sometimes just restart. It could happen anytime now :(

Its driving me mad and i've pulled out alot of hair:

can anyone help?

I have the newest drivers
I know lots of cooling

My systems specs are:

PC Chips m810lmr
1.3Ghz AMD processor
512 sdr ram
Geforce 4 MMX440

[Mankymole]

My system just jammed and forced me to restart just after posting the first message, can someone plz help? :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

[bushmaster]

When looking at the pc-chips site I see it has a notation about the vid cards it will support and none of them are over 32 megs.
** After PCB V1.6 , this mainboard provides an optional AGP4x slot. We recommend the user should use one of the AGP VGA cards that we have tested. We will test more AGP VGA cards in the future.
http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M810LMR.html
Never had any problems with pc-chips or ecs.

[AllGamer]

Try the PCI latency and other delay options.

Reduce the AGP to 2x or 1x to see if you can get it stable.

last resolt is to change Mobo, BUT!! i wont go that far yet.

back then there was a KNOWN problem with nVidia GeForces having problem with lots of AMD mobos.

yours might just be one of those in the list.

[Mankymole]

Thanks for the suggestions but the mother board is really to blame

use the link below

http://www.tek-tips.com/gviewthread.cfm/lev2/66/lev3/68/pid/602/qid/236618

Just to see how low quilty pcchips are - alot of very angry customers.

They are known to stick on fake chips on their boards!?

looks like i'm gunno have to get a new mother board
:mad:

thanx for the help anyway everyone, but if anyone has any ideas on the problem then please still post them :t

[DocEvi1]

PCChips aren't as bad as everyone says.
People tend to see a board for £60, buy it and expect it to do great things - the boards are designed for company usage not Gamer (something that a GF4 card suggests you are wanting to do).
From my memory they don't actually have an AGP Pro slot, only AGP.......

Stefan

[Ammok]

I had an early pcchips mobo and was quite happy with it until i discovered overclocking and video games. Then uit became a cheap mobo and I never bought another one, I usually get an msi(microstar) still cheap, but bung in a few goodies and are pretty stable.

If your gaming and just bought a decent vid card, I would agree with changing your mobo. hows about a mobo and athlon bundle, some pretty cheap combo's about at the mo, buyers market.:)

[Antix]

Yes, PCChips is not bad. I have had two of their boards, one being the M810LMR v 5.0, and the ECS K7S5A / PChips M830LMR v 3.1 and both work superb with my GeForce2 GTS.

Be careful though about inserting a video card into the AGP slot on the 810. There is a capacitor at the back to the board next to the AGP slot that can be snapped off it the analog video connector from the video card comes into contact with it. Most people were not careful about this and blamed PCChips for the problem when it was the users' fault for not being careful.

Just FYI

[Mr Miyagi]

What OS?

I have a PCChips 810LR and it is great. Not the fastest thing out there, but it flies. When I ran 98 on it, it was a pain (lockups and crashes) until I installed 1)Motherboard Drivers 2)Video Card drivers 3)SiS AGP Port driver 4)DirectX

Then it worked fine...Now I run XP.

-PCChips 810LR v7.0A
-Duron 1GHz
-512 PNY PC133
-Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO
-Maxtor 60GB ATA/100 7200prm HDD
-DVD
-20x10x40 CDRW
-Windows XP Pro

Here is a PCChips forum. THey are experts in these very picky motherboards.

http://www.stud.fernuni-hagen.de/q3998142-bin/cgi-bin/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&forum=M8xx+-+Athlon+Boards&number=4&DaysPrune=&LastLogin=

This board was NOT designed to be a performance board...

[Aznmask]

LoL i bought my New pc since March 2002 my motehrboard is PC-CHip M830LR i ahve no problem with it. Last 2 month i borrow my friend's GeFORCE2 MX 400 64MB it seem have problem the problem is like restart my pc for no reason.. playing warcraft seeing those unstable color .. but i think i blame the video card.. czu then i change back to my old video card Voodoo all problem solve..

[Peter M]

Problem here is the SiS 730S chipset. It is _very_ picky about the timing of the AGP card - if it's only ever so slightly off, it won't work. There are more than enough VGA cards that do work (the info on the PC-Chips web site is outdated).

regards, Peter

[Mankymole]

yer, i dont think its power - i have a 450w power supply.

I suppose PcChips arn't that bad for what you pay.

But now i'm moving up into over clocking and video gaming etc i really do need a better mobo.


Thanks for everyones help :) i was suprized to see that so many answered my thread.

But I still wouldn't recommend Pc Chips as although there a good price - there after sales support is rubbish.

They never even answer emails :(

http://www.pcchips.com
and there web site is very dated