Any issues with MSI K8T-NEO-FIS2R?

[Mark]

On February 27, 2004 09:33 am, Mark Reis wrote:
> As long as everyone is putting in their 2c, I would give a word of caution
> about Tyan. This comes from two recent bad experiences with their
> motherboards. 1) We have >20 machines in a cluster all running dual Athlon
> MPs and they started out with 4GB of ECC ram. To make along story short,
> there was absolutely no way to make these machines stable with 4 sticks of
> memory. We had to sell back, at a lost, the extra 1GB DIMMS. 

The reseller should have told you about this. You can't access All 4 Gigs of 
Memory even if it could be made to work. (It can with the right memory but we 
still recommend against it.) The Memory bus is 32bit and can access 4GB of 
Memory but the PCI bus is memory mapped not i/o mapped so it takes away about 
the top 256MB of Memory Addresses.

> 2) Bad RMA 
> support. Another Tyan dual proc board, in a different system, failed within
> the warranty period from Tyan. Trying to RMA the board was a Herculean
> effort and did not go well. We've had respectable luck our MSI Opteron
> boards K8D Master FTs.

Again the reseller should of helped you with this. We have not problem dealing 
with Tyan though I have heard rumors that end users do sometimes. Even if it 
was out of our system warranty we would still help setup an RMA for a 
customer. Not that it matters Most of our systems sold less than 3 years ago 
would still be under warranty so the customers would be coming back to us for 
replacement. Like most manufacturer's, Tyan prefers to work with the 
Resellers and distributors for RMAs.

regards,

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