Joe Suttle wrote:
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> Tiger Direct is having a sale and I am looking for comments - any and
> all appreciated, cause at this price, I might move quickly.
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> Chaintech 7NJL6 Socket A motherboard with nVidia nForce2 Ultra 400
> Northbridge chipset and the nVidia nForce2 MCPS Southbridge chipset. AMD
> Sempron 3000+ CPU. 512MB of lightning-quick memory from Ultra. Just4PC
> Mid-Tower ATX case with 425-watt power supply. An Ultra copper base fan
> s. 52X Asus QuieTrack CD-ROM drive. Maxtor,120GB EIDE hard drive.
> Chaintech=92s GeForce MX4000 64MB video card. All for $199 (after rebates
> of course).
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> If the bargain is components that will work with ECS, then it's a go.
> Could not find out what LAN chip they are using or sound.

LAN listed at
http://www.chaintechusa.com/tw/eng/product_spec.asp?MPSNo=3D13&PISNo=3D277
should be same driver I'm using on my previous system
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/system/drivers/network/rtsnd323.zip
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http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/system/drivers/network/rtgnda06.zip is
what I'm using now for Realtek Gigabit on my latest
http://www.pcchips.com.tw/PCCWeb/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?MenuID=3D92&L=
anID=3D0&DetailID=3D298&DetailName=3DSpecification

http://www.chaintechusa.com/tw/eng/Download/dl_desc.asp?DCSNo=3D15&PISNo=3D=
277
shows audio is C-Media, which probably has an OS/2 driver by now.

If the power supply is a PowMax or other cheap junk you won't want to
trust your investment to it. A junk power supply failure can kill mobo,
RAM & CPU all at once.
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