[dba-Tech] Laptop Recommendation

That sounds bizarre to me too. I've never had that kind of problem and
normally use systems for 1.5 - 2 years before replacement or relegating to
other tasks. Normally I sell my older systems to one specific client who
uses them in a manufacturing environment and have seen no battery drain
problems. The prep that I do on older systems before sale includes replacing
all fans and the battery.

I use MSI boards because I have had very good luck with them, and they are
feature rich for the price. The solder mask is a real nice red, which
impresses the client if they see the case open... I was using Asus boards
until taking delivery of 2 DOAs and one that died after a year of service.

jm

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Francisco H
Tapia
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 4:07 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Laptop Recommendation


That's bizar, must have been your choice in boards, because there is no
absolute way that an AMD processor will wear down your onboard battery
to hold the time.  If  your batch of boards were old, and therefor the
batteries may have been old as well...

for me and AMD it was always ABIT boards, until I saw the new batch of
boards mature... the current list of manufactures that I'll even look at
include, Not necessairly in this order

DFI
EPoX
ABIT
iWill
ECS
MSI
SIS

of course I stay away from anything that has AliMagic chips, Just about
any of the above manufactures provide current releases w/ Nforce2 chipset.


David Lind wrote On 6/9/2004 12:54 PM:

>I'm not sure about the overheating problem, but I do know that until this
last computer I built, EVERY computer I built that had an AMD chip on the
board REQUIRED an external battery. Don't know why, but it sucked the
onboard battery dry within 2-3 months. The only way to keep the system date
and time correct was to add an external battery. The chip I have now doesn't
do that, so either I magically got the bad chip of every batch or something.
>
>
--
-Francisco


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