Recent content by Colombo

Got the board back yesterday. Hooked everything back up and it works like a charm. They did give me a different board rather then repairing my board and sending it back. They probably did that due to time. They'll probably replace the caps and refurbish that board to send out. On another...

Epox's USA website has been down since last friday. Is it just me, or is everyone having the same issues? edit: nevermind....just tried again, and it's up.

This system has been on pretty much all the time. It has not been overclocked at any time though. So I'll try contacting Epox, and see if they'll waranty the board.

Looked at the board. It's definitely the capacitors. One is corroded on top pretty bad, and there's a few others that are slightly corroded.

Here's the thread I was talking about it. Half way down, Boobers thread is where I was reading about the caps. http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...STARTPAGE=16&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear I'll probably just send the board in if they warranty it. I don't have the time to mess with...

Thanks! I didn't think it was the processor or ram. I did read in the official 8RDA+ thread that Epox is warrantying the capacitors, but that they're sticking the same crappy caps back on. So I guess I'll have to decide whether to try and replace the caps myself or see if they'll warranty...

I've had this board for about 2 1/2 years now. I had some initial issues with it, but after that it had pretty stable, and no problems. I'm running an Athlon XP 2200+ processor & 2 Corsair CMX256A-3200 C2 ram. Nothing's overclocked. Recently, a couple weeks ago, the computer froze up...

Thanks for the links. Since I'm not physically in front of the computer right now, I'll have to wait to do some of the tests they suggest. But why would a new motherboard/bios be released without ACPI support? I would have assumed the MB supports ACPI and everything should be good. My 4 yr...

anyone?

Thanks guys for the feedback. I know I will have to make a compromise somewhere. I'll do some more homework and then try to make a decision based on that and your comments. Josh

Before anyone get's on the search horse, I've searched and found the three threads out there. I've currently got a few different drives, mostly I've got older 15 & 20 gig IBM drives. Which was before the whole IBM debaucle. I've got a maxtor and jts as well. I've just built a new system with...

BTW, I'm running win2k for OS

Maybe some of you have run across this before, and might be able to help. I would like to set the hard drive to power down after 3-4 hrs of inactivity, which I set in the power tab in control panel. However this doesn't do anything. I then went into the bios and changed the hdd powerdown...

Well I did some more testing. For the record, most of my connections had the lettering facing down. I swapped and made the lettering face down. This resulted in the LED's not work. The lettering facing a certain direction really doesn't matter. As long as you have the pos. & neg. lead on...

Thanks, I'll give it a shot. Josh