ABIT boards With HPT controller SUCKS bigtime!!!

[OC-Freak]

And abut ABIT Quality:

My first board was defective, so I had to get a new one.
A year ago I took part in building 14 computers with ABIT BM6 boards, 5 was defective and had to be returned, and of the 5 we got as a replacement, 1 was defective and had to be returned also.
One of my friends have used two Abit BH-6 boards and both have died, one of them also killed the NIC......
Another friend of me had a BX6 revision 2 that died.

But I also have friends with Abit boards that doesn't have any problems at all.

About RAID:

I'm planning to buy a adaptec AAA-udma RAID next time I buy a new mobo, and then maybe run RAID-5......

Enough said.

 

[DaddyG]

Freak,

Read my previous post, the DMA issue and the disabling of the serial port are clear indications of IRQ, and DMA channel conflicts. This is NOT really an ABIT specific problem. See if you can manually change the DMA channels at issue. Real SB-16 cards could change the default DMA assignments but, some SB-16 software only worked with the defaults. Remember, its likely that Win doesn't show an IRQ conflict, as is the case with disable the serial port but its a plain fact that when it comes to IRQ sharing, not all dveices will share.

You might have to set all IRQs/DMAs manually and disable PnP Operating system.

 

[Hanpan]

After 2 of my bh6 boards died within a month of each other i've stayed teh hell away form abit. They have given me nothing but trouble.

 

[The Sauce]

Wow...a lot of anti-Abit sentiment here. I have built about 6 PC's based on Abit boards - mostly BH6 abd BP6 and rarely have had a problem. The only problems I have had was with the fan headers burning out, which is easily solved. I have 2 drives running on the old HPT ATA-66 controller without a problem right now on my BP6. Just adding a vote for Abit here.

 

[Insane3D]

Wow...you guys are a little harsh. I am not sure about that particular Abit board, but my KA7-100 with the Highpoint 390 chip is totally stable..no problems. I have had two IBM 75GXP 30gb running in ATA100/Raid 0 for almost 6 months now with no problems. Win2k and Win98SE both install just fine directly onto the Raid array. I have had no data loss and the Highpoint controller beats the Promise chip in my Ultra 100 by a good margin. I get like 92mb/s buffered read speed and a score in Sandra..I know it's not an absolute test...of 46000 or so. Just my experience..but with my 850 running at 1045 and my memory running at 150 cas2...I have no problems or corruption. I do not however claim that my one particular set-up reflects how all highpoint/abit combos run...but it is my experience. I think both Abit and Highpoint have gotten better recently. Just my .02.

 

[Rigoletto]

Funny someone should say that as I was using an Abit BE6 to copy data from a 245Mb HD stuffed full (Windows 3.1, QuantumLPS.) I didn't succeed. And I do remember ME installing highpoint IDE controllers too. I must say the way of detecting hard drives is a bit odd. I had the Quantum, and an IBM 13Gb on the board. The experience was inexplicable in that the floppy wouldn't work. And sometimes with the same setup ME would boot, sometimes the Quantum would (attempt to) boot. All with no changes made. All I wanted to do was boot from a floppy with both drives recognised and copy the smaller to the larger, but it couldn't even do that. I am at a loss to explain it because the BIOS RECOGNISES a floppy, but won't attempt to boot from it despite setting it to.
Nuts.

 

[OC-Freak]

Well, I'm not going to buy an ABIT board again....

In my opinion: ABIT SUCKS

 

[Noriaki]

There are many people (including myself) who agree fully with you OC-freak.

ABit makes a very nice board, at least on paper. With the long list of specs/features/tweaks/hacks and other cool sh*t....and when it delivers man does it rock! But with ABit's crappy QC there is just too high of a chance you will get a crappy board...and never might HPT...they are just crap...it's unfortunate but true..

And before I get the Anand says the KT7 rocks:
Yes he did, and like I said if you get a good one ABit boards are sweet. But Anand reviewed a single board, this isn't a good representation of the number of boards that are going to bite.


MSi is looking more and more like the maker of my next motherboard.
Their line of SocketA boards is just too damn sweet, and I have heard very few if any complaints about MSi boards. They're pretty small time, but at one time AMD and nvidia were both very small time to...not any more.

 

[Agamar]

I have the BE6 with 2 IBM DJNA 9.1g 7200rpm drives on my Primary HPT 66 cable, and my 40x Toshiba cd rom on my primary UDMA 33 cable, and my S&F cd-r on the UDMA 33 secondary. Everything works fine. I have run Win98se and Win2k on it for over a year now.. Getting Win2k installed for the first time was a learning experience, but once I figured out the load order, everything was peachy.

 

[OC-Freak]

If you are unsatisfied with one brand, then you try another next time.
If you are satisfied with one brand, then you most likely stick to it next time too.

That easy.

I'm buying another brand next time.....becuase I'm unsatisfied with abit.

Time will show, but most likely it will be an AOpen or ASUS board, maybe I'll take a look at MSI also.

 

[aircooled]

Johnny GURU,

OK, OK, I'd take a modern V-DUB any day, but I can still work on my 76 Bus, and I love the sound!

66 Bug
69 Bug
71 Bus (Sweet!)
76 Bus

All aircooled, but I want a new beetle. I do like heat and Air conditioning ;-)