My current mobo has died.
So now I'm back in the market for a mATX mobo -- and would appreciate suggestions for a replacement to my now-dead Biostar M7VIG-Pro.
I'm looking to keep all my other components (mainly Athlon 1800+; 256mb ddr 2100 ram) -- keeping my upgrade-options as open as possible at the same time.
I value on-board audio highest. Overclock-ability/gaming lowest (non-gaming machine).
Must have front USB 2 headers; built-in video, lan, 6-chan (min) sound, usb 2.
Feature-wise, what I had looked very good -- but I think I had a lemon. The sound didn't work out-of-the-box + now the bios shows some garbage as my primary hdd (yes, i've tried replacing the hdd... and now there's different garbage showing in the bios). Total uptime was about 2 months over a 1.5yr period -- unfortunately, I didn't discover the sound problems till after the warranty period.
All suggestions would be appreciated-
ttown
So now I'm back in the market for a mATX mobo -- and would appreciate suggestions for a replacement to my now-dead Biostar M7VIG-Pro.
I'm looking to keep all my other components (mainly Athlon 1800+; 256mb ddr 2100 ram) -- keeping my upgrade-options as open as possible at the same time.
I value on-board audio highest. Overclock-ability/gaming lowest (non-gaming machine).
Must have front USB 2 headers; built-in video, lan, 6-chan (min) sound, usb 2.
Feature-wise, what I had looked very good -- but I think I had a lemon. The sound didn't work out-of-the-box + now the bios shows some garbage as my primary hdd (yes, i've tried replacing the hdd... and now there's different garbage showing in the bios). Total uptime was about 2 months over a 1.5yr period -- unfortunately, I didn't discover the sound problems till after the warranty period.
All suggestions would be appreciated-
ttown