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cheap -- Re: weird characters




On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Vikki Roemer wrote:

> Heh, yeah, *should*.  But it's a cheap, sorry MB with a cheap, sorry bios,
> so it doesn't. 

you can also do what the bios should have been doing by using
lmsensors and check the cpu temp and dead fans with lmsensors

you can check the disk temp with hdtemp

and when those sensors say you got problems... you(aka cron) run 
"shutdown now"

> For the record: never buy cheap hardware, especially Elite
> Group motherboards.

every manufacturer makes !@#$% every once in a while, and some
vendors are worst than others ... and EGS is one of them to avoid
in general as are 10 other manufacturers ...

	- i typically buy intel, tyan nowdays
	and 2nd choice is via for mini-itx,
	which means there's not much choice either, so the customer
	picks their favorite vendor and they get to run up their 
	"time to debug bills" as they watch why its a bad choice for 
	their favorite tom-dick-n-harry distro

	- i just spent 4hrs debugging a bad mb ( brand new )
	and wound up tossing 3 of um ... and another no-name-brand
	mb worked fine the first time with the same cpu/mem/disk

	- dell is good !@#$% .. tons of $$$ to make on that junk
	which is probably the worst of the bunch due to their
	customized this !@#@ and dellized  that !@#$
		- you can't give me dell pc to use, but i'll take 
		all your customers that has dell and compaqs

- cheap is okay .. as long as you know why you got it and
  if you used it before from that particular store
	- i buy shit from 1 primary vendor ( distributor which
	requires a reseller permit, and the rest of misc junk from 
	local stores and worst case, buy non-critical parts at fries

	- fries has too many gorrilla tossing boxes/cases of disk
	drives onto the shelf or pallet ... you ahve about 25% failure
	rate within the year and about 75% chance the rebate check
	never shows up ( a scam worst than the nigerian spam scam )

c ya
alvin



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