Pc Chips brand - stable but easy to short burn.
I bought two of them about 6 months apart a couple of years back. My cousin Peter also bought one at the same time as my first one. All three are of the same model.
Both my first one and my cousin’s shorted out the built-in LAN plug about 9 months later. My first one then shorted out completely last month, which I wasn’t in a hurry to have it fixed since it was for home use and I still have two notebook computers. So Melinda and Alec shared one and I just kept using the other one.
Last Friday, the second motherboard which was for work shorted out completely as well. So my good friend Rex helped me bought a couple of ASUS motherboards and have them replaced for me. We had lunch last Monday, brought the motherboards back to my office where I took my home computer there early that morning. In attempt to replace them, only to find out that the slower work computer was only using SDRAM and an older AGP display card instead of DDR RAM and the newer AGP slot display card required by the new board.
After much considerations, I went and bought two 512MB DDR 400 RAM and a Matrox G550 thinking after the replacement, I would buy an iMac sometime next couple of months so then I could swop out the two 512MB with the iMac’s 256MB.
The work computer motherboard replacement with MS Windows ME then went smoothly; but the harddisk of the home computer with Windows XP home had to be reformatted and reinstalled.
Major drag!
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