Need to Rant... Soyo motherboard

Ok so I have this Soyo P4x400 Ulra Plantinum Motherboard, and I sware to god it is the most annoying motherboard I have ever seen operate in my life. From day one this thing does nothing, but freeze up on me, no matter what type of memory I have in it. I sware I was about 2 minutes from throwing this thing out the window.
I tried to copy a dvd yesterday just to test out my new DVD burner, and the stupid pc just kept freezing on me, and locking up... I have 1.25 Gigs of memory, and plenty hard drive space. The thing is ... I had a Asus board running on AMD 1.8 with all the same components, and I switched boards, and have had nothing but problems.

I don't know why listened to my friend, and purchased this Soyo.

what kind of memory are you using? sometimes unrecommended mem can screw up your pc. also, what kind of power supply are you using? a low power supply can also lock up your pc.

Why is this in the photo sharing section?

I use an Abit Ai7 where with my litte oven a.k.a the 3.2ghz P4 Prescott core. Everything runs fine! I'd recommend Abit or Asus over anything else. Both are super excellent.

I am running Kinston Memory 2 512's.. I don't have the exact specs right now.
As for power supply, I am running a 350, or 400 watt unit that came with the pc case.

sorry, about posting this in the wrong section,
could the moderator please move this ..
I thought I clicked off topic.

thanks
B

I've had problems with that motherboard. Had to replace 2 of them at my expense. Try Soltek, it's a good stable MB. I get my stuff from newegg.com. Decent prices and fast shipping.

Thanks Danny.. I am just highly annoyed at this point.
I am gonna order another board the first chance I get.
Bad news is, I don't know what to do with this board.
I may just send it back to Soyo, but I doubt it's still under warranty, and it's only like 2 years old, or less.

Motherboards today have only 3 names: Asus, Abit and Intel. The rest is just a joke. IMHO, of course.

So true ...
that's why I just ordered these.
http://www2.newegg.com ….asp?Item=N82E1​6813131484
http://www2.newegg.com ….asp?Item=N82E1​6811133132

Soon I am going to order a better video card, and a 200 gig Seagate hard drive (strictly for my photo's)

yeah i had a soyo ultra board and it gave me errors like you wouldnt believe now i have a abit and this thing is smooth..like its supposed to be..

Funny, never used any of them, and a large number of computers later (I build them for family and friends) never had any problems.

Saying any one manufacturer is good is like saying all Fords are good. They all build lemons, you've just got to know how to spot them.


And getting back to the original post. I assume you reformatted between switching motherboards, and loaded at the least the drivers that came with the board. Anything less is asking for trouble.

Especially when you leave out my favorites..
Tyan and SuperMicro... but that's for Duallies... I do like Abit.. my first Abit was waaaay back,.. there very first jumperless "softmenu" board.. with an AMD K6 233
The first "Overclockers" board

Mr> Photoguy,. one question.. from your posts it sounds almost as if you swapped Mobo's without a reinstall of the OS?.. am I just reading it wrong? Doing that would surely be likely to lead to trouble.

I admit that I forgot SuperMicro. With Tyan I had horrible experiences.

Im a real Gigabyte fan.

A mate has an old gigabyte board from 1995. It no longer sits in a complete case, just a frame that holds the power supply. The M/B and HDD are sitting on the frame, with the HDD sitting where ever it falls inside the frame, usualy on top of the M/B.
The CPU is no longer held in by its orginal clamp, instead its tied into its socket with some cotton, and the fan is held ontop of the heat sink with blutack, the heat sink itself is still held on to the chip by the orginal heat transfer material.
As you can imagine its not the prettiest looking pile of jumk, BUT, it still works.
It still boots up, infact he still use's it as part of his network, and its one of the most stable PC's Iv ever known. Its even survived two power supply failures, one of them explosive.

I hope you have alot of fans and the power supply is stable. Did you check the CPU temp. Your problem sounds alot like overheating. If it is an OS problem which I have alot of experience in crashing my computer it would boot erraticly. I also had experience in overheating bought a xtra fan and then bought a power supply w two fan but I'm only running 2.8G. The other problem would be the CPU is not sitting tight against the Heat sink or the heat transfer paste has expired when you used it. Just my thoughts.