K7VTA-Pro owners

Last year I built 36 systems for a local school based on the K7VTA-pro
Barebones system from Tiger). Today, I was doing a little maintenance and
found 4 out of 6 chipset fans frozen. This is not the first time I have
found this. Pull the fan, remove the bottom label, apply a little silicon
spray there and around the middle of the fan and all is well. I first
emailed SOYO with this problem about 8 months ago - of course they denied
any problem. They did offer to sell me new fans for $5.

So, if you're seeing intermittent problems, check that chipset fan.

I've also had to replace 8 of 36 power supplies for the fans going out.
Again, SOYO says there is not a known problem. Also had 5 of the on board
sound chips die - I found it was easier just to put in an inexpensive sound
card rather than messing with RMA'ing the mbd and having the system down
for 3 weeks. Again, SOYO says there is no known problem with them.

Have to admit, the ones that haven't had problems do run well.

Configuration:
K7VTA-pro ( not ver 1.0)
XP 1700+
XP Pro
256 mb ( 2 x 128)
WD 20gb 7200
GF2 MX400
DVD/CDRW

Seems to be adequate for whatever K-6th graders and the teachers use em for.

mike in montana

"Montana Mike" <test DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
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 > Last year I built 36 systems for a local school based on the K7VTA-pro
 > Barebones system from Tiger). Today, I was doing a little maintenance and
 > found 4 out of 6 chipset fans frozen. This is not the first time I have
 > found this. Pull the fan, remove the bottom label, apply a little silicon
 > spray there and around the middle of the fan and all is well. I first
 > emailed SOYO with this problem about 8 months ago - of course they denied
 > any problem. They did offer to sell me new fans for $5.
 >
 > So, if you're seeing intermittent problems, check that chipset fan.
 >
 > I've also had to replace 8 of 36 power supplies for the fans going out.
 > Again, SOYO says there is not a known problem. Also had 5 of the on board
 > sound chips die - I found it was easier just to put in an inexpensive
sound
 > card rather than messing with RMA'ing the mbd and having the system down
 > for 3 weeks. Again, SOYO says there is no known problem with them.
 >
 > Have to admit, the ones that haven't had problems do run well.
 >
 > Configuration:
 > K7VTA-pro ( not ver 1.0)
 > XP 1700+
 > XP Pro
 > 256 mb ( 2 x 128)
 > WD 20gb 7200
 > GF2 MX400
 > DVD/CDRW
 >
 > Seems to be adequate for whatever K-6th graders and the teachers use em
for.
 >
 > mike in montana
 >
 >

Need one more? My old backup system's mobo. Solid as a rock!
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