Abit BH6 (aka HD Gnawer)?

[Danzego]

Hey gennamen!! Back again with another prob with the old Abit BH6. If all remember my last prob was my Quantum 6.4 Fireball went bye-bye with bad sectors. All fine and dandy being that I had a 1GB to use until I get this one back from Quantum. Read:HAD. I had a 1 GB HD; the **** HD is now up the proverbial creek. Kinda funny too, as this one went to the dogs in about the same length of time that it took to kill the Fireball. Now I'm not one to make assumptions, but I think that I may have a bad controller on this mobo (I highly doubt I ran into a prob with two drives that worked fine before this). Anyone else experience or hear these things before? I really don't mind the Quantum, it's being replaced. The 1 GB was free, so, oh well!! But cmon, this is not right. Either way, I'm going to call Krex tomorrow and plead with them to replace it. I want to pay the extra bread and get a Rev2, but they're on back order for 2 weeks. I've also heard a few interesting things about the ASUS P2B (a pal'o'mine was at a store yesterday and there was a line out the door all returning the board due to dead BIOS'es). Any suggestions or other?
BTW, update: No HD fron Quantum yet. No prob, their time hasn't run out yet.
TIA,
Danzego

[kwai]

going for frequent flier miles, huh?

forgot from last time, but you're not using the 75, 83 bus speeds are you?

but no, my bh6 never gave me probs with hd sweet tooth (so far used three diff hds).

[Danzego]

Nope, not using 75 or 83. Just sitting at a supposedly cool 66. Haven't even thought about oc'ing yet. Wont even consider it until I can sit on the machine for more than 2 weeks without frying a **** component!! Any other suggestions or experiences?

[bighammer]

something wrong with that store, I have and do use the P2B..P2B-LS, P2B-D, P2B-DS, the new P2B and have yet to EVER run into a problem.
You sure the store didn't drop the boxes in water then drop a wire into the water??
Then sell them real cheap???
Anyone stating there is something wrong with the ASUS boards doesn't know a thing about quality.
Generalizing because of what a FRIEND said is heresay..not real.

[kwai]

touchy, touchy, aren't we?

[DavidX]

All hail ASUS the magnificent, the incorruptible, the untouchable, the unsinkable! Huh? Hold on! Didn't they say that last thing about the Titanic?

Maybe, just maybe, even the seemingly perfect can occasionally have an imperfection. A batch of bad BIOS chips on ASUS boards is not totally impossible - any more than a batch of Rolls Royces with starter motor problems. It happens!

[Danzego]

Whoa, slow down there "bighammer"!! You don't have to get all in a huff; I'm NOT flaming your beloved ASUS boards!! Talk about a mobo fetish! I know that ASUS boards are quality boards; I always have. Why do you think I mentioned the board in the first place? Uh, maybe because I was thinking of getting one to replace my Abit? No disrespect and all, but it seems you must be pissed off at the fact that alot of sites out there are naming Abit boards and not ASUS boards their choice for PII and Celeron seating. Not only that, but the "FRIEND" supplying this "Heresy" you speak of is a buddy of mine's father. He was at a store picking up some parts and happened to be talking to a line of people about the boards they WERE returning. Keep in mind the shop he was at was very small, so a line out the door could have been 5 or 6 people. Also, I said it was a BIOS problem. I'm not sure what CMOS chip is on that board, but it isn't made by ASUS, is it? Maybe a bad batch or something, ya think? Oh well, I'm off to Krex to have them take a look at it, so I gotta bolt. If you didn't mean anything by it bighammer, happy apologies, you just seem really bent by the whole ASUS thing.
Danzego

[EMAN6]

Not to add insult to injury, but I just purchased a new bh6 mb and ibm 10G drive, and during the initial setup of '95, suddenly the drive is no longer seen... can't fdisk it, format it, nothing! Sure sounds like the same problem you're seeing.

[Danzego]

Actually it isn't the same problem I'm seeing as long as your HD ain't dead. Mine are actually deceased. But I will say that I found your post disheartening. I'm hoping that won't be the problem I will be seeing as I was going to do just that- pick up an IBM 10GB. Here's to quirks and wonders gennamen, cheers!!

[gerbz]

my brother couldn't get win98 installed on 3 different hard drives, all kind of missing file errors, scandisk errors, etc.
turned out to be a bad bh6.

[Bleeding Edge]

Whatever happened to the good ol' Made in the USA boards? From the likes of AMI, SuperMicro or even Tyan? We don't see people with these boards posting problems here -none.

[kwai]

i'd love to buy a more stable mb (the mem probs bother me with the bh6), IF they offered variable cpu core voltages. my celeron would never make it at 2.0V.

[Bleeding Edge]

AMI has ajustable voltage regulators. Some of them even have a slot to add a VRM module.

[kwai]

wish i had known that earlier. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif