Experiences with all in 1 boards?

[Tripleshot]

I have on sale a micro atx system I just found out my supplier switched from an Epox I knew worked,to a PC Chips M599 LMR board.

Has anyone heard of this?Is it an Ok word processing only type mobo?

 

[Xtremist]

http://www.systemlogic.net/agurusworld/

That was on Anand's Web News yesterday I believe. Although not very in-depth, it gives one guy's thorough opinion of them I would just hate to have one of the integrated components go out on me...

 

[biohazard2]

keep a hand gun with two bullets in it when working with them. One for the systemboard, one for yourself... especially with that board. mine ended up a target on the wall for throwing knives (it's pretty good for that kinda stuff, but not as a computer)

 

[Bleep]

I have made it a habit to donate computers to Native American schools and so I have to be very conservative in the money department. So I have built 30 machines over the last couple of years using the Amptron 585B MVP4 all in one board. They are sometimes a little tough to get going (audio-video) drivers but have not had any problems with these boards.The board I use has 1 ISA and 1 PCI slot so if the modem or the sound goes to pot they can be fixed. I do not beleive they can be beat for the price. Went back and read your post and if what I gather you are getting prebuilt machines for resale, if so the price better go down from your supplier.
Bleep

 

[Peter]

The 599LMR is working well. It's using an SiS 530 plus 5595 core chipset, an SiS 900 10/100TX PCI LAN, and a C-Media 8738 4.1-channel PCI audio plus softmodem combo chip.

It isn't fast, but well fast enough for normal, non-gaming home or office computer use. Even the CPU driven modem is useful, connecting regularly at 50k and above, and leaving enough CPU power to other tasks so that Internet browsing works neatly (even with the cheapest Cyrix processors you can get). All the integrated stuff, VGA, sound, modem, and LAN, have good operating system support. There are mature Linux drivers, even for the softmodem, and SiS even has recently released Linux drivers for the DVD decoder hardware (just in case you want to reduce system cost even more by not buying a commercial OS). PC-Chips bundles Corel Linux and Wordperfect Suite with these mainboards.

Being MicroATX, it eliminates most of the ribbon cable and slot bracket mess that its BabyAT relatives M598LMR (same chipset) and M585LMR (VIA MVP4) bring.

Regards, Peter

 

[Hyper99]

tripleshot, you are lucky that it is already installed for you
but if you have to do it yourself, it a pain you got to do alot of trouble shooting the motherboard to get them all working properly
check all connections etc, and yes they are time consuming.
This board is not recommended for people who want to assemble their own PC due to the quality of the board that some of them do not work properly at all or even at all.
See where the pain comes from?
What if the modem not working, VGA not working,
You only knew to take everything apart and bring it back to the shop.
Only for them to tell you, nothing is wrong with it.
Either I'm not good or this board is just difficult to install.
I gotten a board that had the CMOS on NON working Setting, which I think it was an already used by someone who fooled around with the jumper which they gave to me.
I had to take these board back to the shop about three times
I went from m571, then to m598 MLR
then back again to M571
They thought I was crazy!
First time m571 couldn't get it to work
took it back they say it works fine due to improper cmos setting.
second time, improper cmos setting again
Third time I decide to just keep it even if it don't work
I told them I would throw it in the trash can cause it more
trouble for me then it is for them having to drive about 90 miles
total round trip
can you say I am actually wasting money, time and risk of driving?
I'm not trying to be funny or anything but I'm telling you like it is.

 

[Hyper99]

Peter, I was working with AT version of it
Now do you see where all the frustration come from?