[ale] Ginstar PC's

[Keith Hopkins]

David S. Jackson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:20:35PM -0500 Vernard Martin <vernard at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 10:49, Chris Fowler wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I ususally purchase Ginstar PC's for Windows use.  I now need one for Linux and know that many people here regulary buy from them.  
>>>I ususally oder the economy PCs that have everything on the mother board.  Including ethernet.   Does these PC's work well
>>>with Linux?
>>>
>>>
>>I've had some experience with this. Ginstar uses lots of the PC Chips
>>all-in-one motherboards for their economy PCs. These motherboards work
>>quite well with linux except for the built in modem. The same goes for
>>the Amptron line of all-in-one motherboards whhich are just rebranded PC
>>Chips boards.
>>
>>hope this helps.
>>
> 
> 
> I've had problems with one of the boards I got from them.  It was
> a while back and the board name was something like DSI or some
> such.  I guess I've blocked the name out of my mind.  But there
> were lots of patches from the manufacturers website.  Even then,
> the atapi interface was spotty.  Never has worked quite right.
> As long as I use a fully compliant CD I'm okay, but even windows
> would not work right with it where the CD was concerned.  The
> manufacturer is known to be pretty iffy when it comes to mobos.
> Can anyone think of a mobo mfr whose name is three letters and
> starts with "D"?
> 
> 

DFI = Diamond Flower Information, from Taiwan (where else?)  They've been around forever.

-- 
Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith
     Jack of All Trades, Anarchist



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