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Help for cheap motherboard choice

I bought a Proprietary board last year from e-bay (real cheap too) and it was labeled much like this one. Made by a major manufacturer for a proprietary system. It worked on arrival, but only at one bus speed-95mhz!! I Downloaded the BIOS upgrade and installed it--now I have a big coaster! Does not even post to reinstate old bios!

Remember that since your not buying this board from Asus that there is no tech support whatsoever, no drivers can be trusted since HP probably doctors the standard ones, and the board has been stripped of the jumpers tht make it desireable. Maybe if you knew what HP model# it's from you could set it up exactly the same... Sounds like a loser to me.
 
When you're searching for value mainboard for a slot-1 Athlon, the PC-Chips M800LMR is your friend. As cheap as it probably gets, yet on AMD's Recommended Mainboard list, and with (real PCI not AC97) sound, HSP modem, and PCI bus master 10/100 LAN onboard.

It goes for the equivalent of around $75 here in Germany (should be even cheaper in the US), and that's with complete cabling including the modem riser.

Regards, Peter
 
Peter,

Just remember its PCChips. Get them if you want ridiculously horrible support as well as completely retarded motherboard designs (my last and only board with them had the slot 1 almost blocking off the PCI slot). I would pay at least $75 to avoid all the hassle associated with the company.
 
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