[lug] Flakey Hardware?

[Lee Woodworth]

Steve Sullivan <Steve Sullivan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently bought a dual opteron system, with a Tyan motherboard
I recall reading that there were issues with the BIOS and/or SATA
chipset on some amd64 motherboards about a year ago (gentoo amd64
topics in the support forums). You may want to do research on the
issue.
> and SATA drives from monarchCompter.com.
> It wouldn't boot, so after many many attempts to contact
> their tech support, by phone and by email, I finally got
> an RMA and sent it back.
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