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my nomination for worst mainboard

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Anonymous

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Aug 16, 2010, 10:47:03 AM8/16/10
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I was given a HP Pavillion, it has a Trigem Glendale
mobo. Pretty pissweak, only supports 100 MHz FSB. What
annoyed me was the fan is screaming. I go into BIOS
find hardware monitor, the setting for fan control is
not editable, it says contact your supervisor! WTF?
The supervisor password is cleared.
Then I noticed that the fan is piggybacked onto a disk
power cable, so it had no control anyway. I plugged it
in to the CPU fan pins, and after 20 seconds, it died!
I found a board layout diagram and there is another fan
connector near the CPU. But when I looked, there were just
3 solder pads there, no pins to connect the plug.
There is a third fan jack, put it is other side of the
board, so the fan cable don't reach.
In my recent jobs, I had HP professional-grade workstations.
I was rather dismayed to see that their plebian products
were the dregs of made-in-China crap.

test85

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Jan 27, 2011, 4:56:21 AM1/27/11
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I've had the same problem with another motherboard I once had, it did
the same things and the thing was a brand new motherboard. I think mine
was an MSI and they just sucked I got another MSI motherboard and the
same thing happen again and it was perfectly installed. My vote goes to
MSI for creating crappy motherboards that don't last long or just don't
work in general.


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