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To: steve harris who wrote (111066)	5/15/2000 9:22:00 PM
From: jim kelley	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1576709

Come on Steve you can do better than that. The article says that the Thunderbird is supposed to be out in two weeks and there are no support chips for it and no production motherboards.

To: steve harris who wrote (111066)	5/15/2000 9:28:00 PM
From: 5dave22	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576709

Steve, come on. That was from a very credible source! Don't you know who "hanginondabus" is?! The leading authority in chips. He makes or breaks the SOX. I'll be selling tomorrow. Dave ps - A couple of weeks ago I was driving home from work and the guy in front of me made a boneheaded move that I can't remember. Out of my mouth came "what a maroon". My wife laughed her ass off. I took full credit. Sorry. Thanks.

To: steve harris who wrote (111066)	5/15/2000 11:07:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576709

Re: LOL... you bet Jimmie, [relating to a tale of compatibility issues] Hi Steve, We've recently received a number of systems based upon the MSI6195 (K7PRO) - a 4 layer board. All have been rock solid. Recent systems ordered at 700, 750, and 850 MHZ have come with Windows 2000 workstation or server installed. These systems have included DVD and CD-RW, USB scanners, Windows 2000 server, SQL Server 7, IIS, too many applications to list, HP 6 cartridge internal tape jukebox, sony external tape drive, workstation NICs, server NICs, etc. Some use the on board IDE controller, others use either Adaptec 2940U2W or DPT 1564U3 RAID controller. While we've generally had to download new drivers for such peripherals such as scanners and tape backup units (and I'm sure our VAR had to track down drivers to support the DVD, adaptec, and CR-RW) to support Windows 2000, the MSI board / Athlon has been fine as shipped - and finding W2K drivers hasn't been too bad, either. The only issue to date has been that the configuration routine for the DPT controller needs to be called from a software program instead of the PROM - and DPT is working on a bios update. (the DPT controller is certified on a limited number of boards, a couple of which use the AMD 750 chipset, but the MSI 6195 is not yet included in the set of certified boards). Performance of the controller in this installation has been flawless (we have only 1 DPT system so far). Considering that these systems are all having to run version 1.0 of many of the drivers for Windows 2000, the stability these sytems have demonstrated has been gratifying. Zero blue screens to date on any of the machines, even with all of these varous peripherals with their 1.0 drivers. (does Windows 2000 blue screen when it crashes? Knock on wood, I haven't seen a crash yet!) I wanted to wait until we'd had a little more experience with these machines before posting about them, but that post from Yahoo seemed to call for a statement. We haven't gotten our 2 gig RAM machine in yet - I'm looking forward to being able to post about that! Regards, Dan