Fire Breathing Dragon...

[AndrewSpencer]

I'm one of a seemingly insignificant minority, but I would highly recommend AGAINST the Dragon board. I purchased one on August 1st, RMA'd one and have still not been able to get true stability with this board. I'm in the process of buying a replacement in fact. The board (in my case... and this may be a specific factory related issue since both boards were from the same reseller) has been unable to function reliably at any speed. First my Raid-0 IBM GXP60's would not EVER function with this computer even though they were great performers on my other machine. (thus the drives were not bad) After recieving the replacement Dragon board this problem continued and forced the RMA of my drives. Now, I have replaced virtually every component of my system including processor and ram and drives as well. Still with no stability. 100 Mhz FSB, 133 FSB, Failsafe, Maximum, Normal... all Bios settings prove useless. My 1.4 Ghz and 1.0 Ghz Athlons both fail work at their rated speeds. Random lockups, IRQ errors, and impossible instability at every speed have plagued me at every turn. At this point I spit my last breath for hate's sake alone at this board. I wish you luck and suggest you return this board before you too have similar nightmares. This board, even with the newest bios is a joke and a travesty. Today I will be replacing the final components of my system: Powersupply and the Dragon itself. If the Dragon continues to fail even after it is isolated and powered with a new over-kill 500watt powersupply (compared to the brand new 300watt which I still believe to be fully functional) I will set motherboard on fire with kerosene and return it's charred putrid remnants to Soyo where they can retch in their own incompetance.

 

[SilverThief]

Good lord. No need to burn it though, you could always send it to me.

 

[Technonut]

A little overly dramatic, aren't you? Sorry about your frustration, just move on to another mobo. I personally liked the Dragon except for a couple of quirks, but went back to the 8K7A+. I did not like the fact that advertised features of the Dragon were not actually functional, such as the range of VCore adjustments.

Get yourself an inexpensive K7S5A or something to get by until newer boards are tested such as the KT266A. That way if it does not work out for you... You could set it on fire and not be out too much cash.

EDIT: Typos

 

[CraigRT]

That is hardcore but I too feel the same way when stuff like that happens

If it's been narrowed down to troublesome hardware and it cannot seem to be fixed it just gets madening.. all anyone wants is a properly running system.. the motherboard is the most critical part! Well I must say after reading this I'd think twice about getting this board, (besides I'm happy with Microstar anyways)