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Subject: RE: Any experience with Soyo K7ADA?
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:52:58 -0600
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From: "Nicpon, John" <John.Nicpon@SouthTrust.com>
To: "Eric Parusel" <lists@globalrelay.net>,
	<freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Bakul Shah" <bakul@bitblocks.com>
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Agreed the ECS K7S5A is a stable board.
It supports both DDR and SDR but only up to 1GB.

I've run mine through a variety of tests and the only problems I've
found are:

1. Certain AMR modems (Smartlink brand) cause problems with onboard
sound.
2. I had problems with VIA compatible PC-133 SDR modules when attempting
to run the DRAM bus @ 133mhz. This was fixed by manually configuring the
module specs in the BIOS.
3. NIC problem in *BSD as listed below.

For the feature set and price ($65 US). You can't beat it!

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Parusel [mailto:lists@globalrelay.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:15 PM
To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; Bakul Shah
Subject: Re: Any experience with Soyo K7ADA?


Apart from the onboard NIC not working (*yet*, the MAC address isn't
being
detected properly), the SiS735 based ECS K7S5A has worked very well for
myself on FreeBSD (4.4).

I bought it because it was cheap ($125 *Canadian*), has a fast chipset,
and
got so many good reviews...

It's not an overclockers motherboard though, not that I care :)

Later,

Eric Parusel


> Fry's Electronics is selling these motherboard with Athlon
> 1600XP+ cpu (1.4Ghz) for $149 which seems like a decent
> price.  Specs: supports upto 3GB of 266Mhz PC2100 DDR, ALi
> Magick1 chip set, ATA 133 etc.
>
> Has anyone run FreeBSD-{stable|current} on these beasts?
>
> Suggestions for alternative motherboards gratefully accepted!
> Basically I want a machine with 1+ Ghz Athlon, 1+ GB mem + it
> has to be reliable and be a good value for money.  Similarly
> suggestions for alternatives to Fry's (but local to the SF
> bay area) also gratefully accepted.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> -- bakul
>
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