First post, by vetz
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Let your frustration come forward, take it out in this thread.
Tell us, what are the most shitty motherboards you have layed your hands upon?
Mine have to be the Epox MVP3E-M. An ATX Super socket 7 board.
1998 review here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/156
It is just so damn picky with hardware! I was planning on using this as my Socket 7 test rig, but I've put that idea behind me after working a bit with this board. I put in my AWE 64 Gold and my 3COM Etherlink card conflicts without Windows being able to sort it out. I put in my S3 Virge GX2 and suddenly my Silicon Image S-ATA card won't be recognized at all. Set in my SCSI controller card along with my S-ATA card and S-ATA doesn't work. If I put in my CMI8330 card then all PCI/AGP videocards that uses IRQ gets moved to IRQ 14 or 15 which crashes with the IDE controller. You can't manually set IRQ's in the BIOS. VIA's USB drivers I never have gotten to work in Windows 98. S3 Virge DX cards crashes with EMM386.EXE. 😵