Re: need advice on Mother board

I can tell you master5 won't run on a SiS 620 board ,.... though the
EMC/BDI does. If you are shopping stay away from SiS.

Frank

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., Paul <Paul.Corner@t...> wrote:
>
> Hi Carl
>
> The ECS K7SEM uses an SiS730S chipset - I have always had trouble
with
> anything that had SiS inside !
> If you want to run Linux/EMC or just plain old BDI EMC, pick a Via
chipset
> instead. The Intel 815 works quite well after the on board graphics
has been
> disabled.
>
> Regards, Paul.
>
>
> On Friday 16 November 2001 5:37 pm, carlcnc@y... wrote:
> > I am looking at a "barebones" mailorder 'puter
> > athalon 1gig,mother board is an ECS K7SEM,with built in video.
> > I would appreciate any input regards this motherboard. Would hate
to
> > buy something that closes ANY options for control software
> > i.e.,Master5,EMC,KellyCam etc .
> >
> > thanks
> > Carl