Mar 2 2009
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Oct 22 2008
Foxconn A79A-S: A reprieve?
Foxconn technical support finally came through, and sent me Beta BIOS S02 for the troubled A79A-S. This finally allows memory to run at 1066MHz, albeit with greatly increased timings, well above the speed that the memory is capable of.
Oct 4 2008
Foxconn motherboard ACPI breakage still not fixed :(
Further to the situation documented here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249, it appears that Foxconn are still shipping motherboards with BIOS which are either intentionally or inadvertently broken under any non-Windows OS.
Oct 3 2008
The scan saga…
… or why I vow never to build a PC ever again 🙁
Having last built a new desktop computer (I do have an ever expanding collection of MiniITX servers, but these don’t count 😉 ) in about 2003, I decided that it was high time to upgrade my 256Mb Athlon 1800+ desktop to something more recent: I was finding that I wasn’t updating my Gentoo Linux installation on the basis that I’d probably be replacing it in the near future, and I really wanted to play a few more interesting recent games such as Bioshock.
Aug 14 2009
Foxconn A79A-S Final verdict: Unfit for use
I must admit that I forsook my vow never to build a PC again, and as a result am now more than convinced of its validity than ever…
Read on for a final look at the Foxconn’s flagship A79A-S AM2+ motherboard, and how it is eclipsed in almost every way by the Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P board with which I have now replaced it.
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