599lmr?!!?!

[C.C.]

Does anyone know anything about this motherboard? It's apparently made by some company then sold under several different names...Alton, Amptron, and others. It's a socket 7 with built in agp video(up to 8 meg shared), built in sound, modem, and a lan card. I'm just looking for a good all around board to build some systems to sell. I'm not looking for anything fancy, just something that's going to act like the normal "family" pc. Anybody? Thanks. Casey

[MR COMPUTER]

The M599LMR is a decent board for home or office use. Not an overclocking board! I have built a few with this board without problems... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[Peter M]

The 599LMR is made by PC-Chips, and works well for a normal use PC.

It's made of SiS 530 and 5595 chips for the core chipset, graphics, IDE, and USB. Sound and modem come from a C-Media 8738, and LAN is an SiS 900.

If you want to build several units, here's a hint for you - PC-Chips also offer their mainboards in "pre-systems" that come preassembled in MicroATX cases with a HDD carrier, CD-ROM and floppy disk drives, along with a retail box that has room for keyboard, mouse, speakers and other bits and pieces. Just add RAM, a processor and a harddisk.

Maybe you check with your local importer if they have them. Saves you a lot of work.

Regards, Peter

[alpha]

They're all made by Alton - they're sold under the brands of PCCHIPs, PC100, etc.

[Peter M]

Sorry, not quite. They're made by Hsin Tech manufacturing, their trade name is PC-Chips.

There are lots of large importers and small resellers that sell those boards under their own name. Alton is one of them.

Regards, Peter

[alpha]

Ahh. Someone else on the board said they were all made by Alton.

[bdunn]

Excellent board except it you want to run Linux. There maybe a Linux video driver out there for this board but I havent found one yet. If anyone knows of one I would appreciate hearing.

[MR COMPUTER]

Take a look at the Linux VGA installation guide in the device drivers section at;
www.amptron.com (http://www.amptron.com) ... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[C.C.]

Thanks for all the info guys. I've been kicking around the idea of starting a small custom build and service business. I really like the looks of this board just for your average "home" or "business" pc. Just wasn't for sure on the quality issue. Thanks again. Casey

[Peter M]

For Linux, everything's there.

VGA is SiS 530 - driver written with assistance from SiS.

IDE is an SiS 5513 functional unit, well supported.

Sound is C-Media 8738. Driver written by C-Media.

LAN is SiS 900 or Davicom 9102. Either chip is natively supported by current Linux.

Even the software modem (C-Media 8738 integrated PCTel unit) has a working Linux driver pctel.o. Somewhat hard to find, but AFAIK the _only_ HSP softmodem that has a non-Windows driver.

What more could one want?

Regards, Peter

[bdunn]

Thanks Peter. I'm gonna try and install linux again