[plug] BP6 boards

[Kim Covil]

> Recently there was comment that Abit BP6 boards were pulled off the shelves,
> owing to quality problems.  Is there an update to this story - like they're
> back or won't be back?  Or is there something with more bangs per buck now?

I have one of these... and I had been having quite a few problems with
it... it seemed unable to stay up longer than 4-7 days without
mysteriously freezing... but a recent bios update released by Abit seems
to have fixed my problems with it... Although from the abit-linux list I
see that it hasn't fixed everyone elses...

Abit have never really admitted to there being a problem with the board
other than one capacitor on one version of the board. For more details
you can try the bp6 web site...
http://www.bp6.com/

emerald:~> uptime
 10:26am  up 32 days, 10:30, 17 users,  load average: 2.00, 2.00, 1.97

Cheers

Kim

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