[96845] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Video problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joshua Levitsky)
Thu Oct 29 16:03:42 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:43:51 -0500
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From: Joshua Levitsky <jlevitsk@mindspring.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810292010.PAA30092@mail.redhat.com>
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I run my Linux on a box from Tiger and a VX motherboard from them. Haven't
had any problems. I think when searching for the lowest price though you
may have to deal with getting a defective part now and again, but your
friend sounds cursed. They should just refund her money and a little extra
for grief.
-Josh
At 03:12 PM 10/29/98 , you wrote:
>A note of caution on tiger-direct, maybe an exception and not the rule, but
>a girl at our office bought a system from them and in less then a year
>she's had to replace the mobo twice, the diskette drive 3 times, the video
>card, the cd-rom twice. They've been sending her the components with no
>hassle, but at that point, I'm driving by their place of business and
>tossing the damn thing out onto their lawn as I drive by.
>
>Again, not tiger-direct bashing, just a word of caution.
>
> Chris
>
>>You can get a $188 dollar MB from Frys Electronics with an AMD k2/3dnow
>>300MHz.
>>
>>Also, try tiger-direct, they have pretty good prices.
>>
>>On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 23:45:21 -0600 (CST) John Mayson
>><jmayson@mindspring.com> writes:
>>>If you promise not to laugh, I'll admit I still use a 486. I have a
>>>video
>>>board capable of going up to 1024x800 (or whatever that resolution is)
>>>and
>>>a monitor that can go to 800x600. I'll also admit I run Win95 and run
>>>it
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