Anonymous Coward wrote:I really don't understand how people during the 586 and 686 generations could put up with VIA and their endless problems. Somebody seriously needs to compile a list of the bazillion different VIA chipsets, their various revisions and the problems they have, and the tools needed to "fix" them. Did PCChips ever make a board with a VIA chipset? That would have been a match made in heaven.
It was part for the course back then. We were all just aware of it and didn't think anything of it.
Back in those days it was all about meticulously setting up your system, tweaking settings, getting everything running perfectly, and then writing down / backing up those settings.
And for stuff that needed different settings, we used config.sys and autoexec.bat menus.
Even Windows had different hardware profiles that you could use... Not something I ever did.
I'm pretty sure PC-Chips had some socket 7 boards with Via chipsets. Those things were pretty horrid back then.... But that was mostly just PC-Chips during that period.