[clug] Anyone got any experience with MSI's MEGA 180?

[kizmet at vmhost0.homeunix.com]

Ok i have sused out the MSI MEGA 365's Wirless is a Realtek chipset


=- Cody miller

> Can I tell you of the 400 machines with Asus MB's I purchased for one
> organisation that resulted in every board needing replacement within the
> end
> of the first year, and what a painful drawn out process that was.
>
> However when the board was new everyone praised it.
>
> All to do with a faulty dialetric sold to asia in massive quantities which
> affected almost every electronic device from asia built in that period.
> It
> smelt like conspiracy to me.
>
> My MSI at home died the same way.
>
> GBJ
>
>> Although I have no idea about your particular board, I have one general
>> recommendation as a multiple-motherboard-burns victim:
>>
>> ***DON'T BUY MSI***
>>
>> Not long ago I was building systems with MSI motherboards and the amount
>> of pain that junk has gotten me, combined with the amount of pain
>> suffered by my customers, caused me to swear never to buy an MSI again,
>> not even if a customer insisted on it. Even if they deserve their MSI
>> for asking about it, I don't deserve to have to service it, swap power
>> supplies, and explain to them why their system sucks. Also the
>> northbridge fan is unnecessary and won't survive 6 months.
>>
>> Consider yourself warned.
>>
>> Have fun,
>> Darren
>>
>> On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 15:52, Andrew Pollock wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm considering building a MythTV (or similiar Linux based PVR) using
>>> an MSI
>>> MEGA 180 bare-bones system as the base.
>>>
>>> http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/slim_pc/slm/pro_slm_detail.php?UID=546
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any experience with them, good or bad?
>>>
>>> Particularly trying to determine the chipset of the mini-PCI wireless
>>> card
>>> and if the optional TV tuner that MSI can provide is supported by V4L.
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>
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