Talk abouit a Cheezy motherboard---

I've been working on a generic tower with an AMD socket 462 CPU, made
by, as far as I can tell, ECS (AKA PcChips) Model M810D. It has
corrupted BIOS, and wouldn't read the hard drive. In fact, Spinrite let
me know the bios was corrupted. So I spent way too much time trying to
find the prroper .rom file to flash the bios with, but I could never get
it to work right. So now I am putting a new motherboard in the unit,
and when I got around to pulling the CPU from the old board to put in
the new one, I got a real surprise--There is no socket--the CPU is
soldered in place.!

I never saw this before on a tower motherboard. Wow.

Ardell Faul
Computer Monitor Service Inc.
Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
10816 E. Mission Ave.,
Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
ardell%40icehouse.net">ardellicehouse.net
509-891-5188

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Welcome to the world of cheap crap! I did one of these about a year ago
for a hotel chain; it was their main communication link with the
internet and I can't remember ever seeing a cheaper POS.

So many people think that the determining factor in buying a computer is
the price; the cheaper it is, the more valuable it is.

Tom

Ardell Faul wrote:
> I've been working on a generic tower with an AMD socket 462 CPU, made
> by, as far as I can tell, ECS (AKA PcChips) Model M810D. It has
> corrupted BIOS, and wouldn't read the hard drive. In fact, Spinrite let
> me know the bios was corrupted. So I spent way too much time trying to
> find the prroper .rom file to flash the bios with, but I could never get
> it to work right. So now I am putting a new motherboard in the unit,
> and when I got around to pulling the CPU from the old board to put in
> the new one, I got a real surprise--There is no socket--the CPU is
> soldered in place.!
>
> I never saw this before on a tower motherboard. Wow.
>;
> Ardell Faul
>; Computer Monitor Service Inc.
>; Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
> 10816 E. Mission Ave.,
> Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
> ardell%40icehouse.net">ardellicehouse.net
> 509-891-5188
>

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Sigh, yeah, I have and they all suck! Big time! I have started refusing to
work on ECS boards because it can be impossible to source drivers and BIOS
updates for them. Their support is horrible.

Trace

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I've been working on a generic tower with an AMD socket 462 CPU, made
by, as far as I can tell, ECS (AKA PcChips) Model M810D. It has
corrupted BIOS, and wouldn't read the hard drive. In fact, Spinrite let
me know the bios was corrupted. So I spent way too much time trying to
find the prroper .rom file to flash the bios with, but I could never get
it to work right. So now I am putting a new motherboard in the unit,
and when I got around to pulling the CPU from the old board to put in
the new one, I got a real surprise--There is no socket--the CPU is
soldered in place.!

I never saw this before on a tower motherboard. Wow.

Ardell Faul
Computer Monitor Service Inc.
Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
10816 E. Mission Ave.,
Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
ardell%40icehouse.net">ardellicehouse.net
509-891-5188

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