Like I said above, "when the Tyans work, they do work well". However, seeing as many DOA boards as I have, they've simply lost credibility in my book. I've yet to see a single Supermicro board that didn't work exactly as described. Every one so far has turned on and worked perfectly. No funky NICs, no weird booting up issues, no failure to POSTs.

But yes, when they do work, they keep on running. However, my Tyan dual AthlonMP fileserver crapped itself, and the motherboard was to blame there (was corrupting my RAID-5 storage filesystem, and rebuild attemps were futile until I moved the controller+array over to an FX-57 system). So yeah, I'm not fond of Tyan much anymore.