From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 14 20: 0:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail19.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail19.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50D3637B423 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 20:00:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vcardona@home.com) Received: from marx.marvic.chum ([24.17.229.11]) by femail19.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010515030019.BEOF98.femail19.sdc1.sfba.home.com@marx.marvic.chum>; Mon, 14 May 2001 20:00:19 -0700 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by marx.marvic.chum (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4F30V763435; Mon, 14 May 2001 22:00:31 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from vcardona) Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:00:31 -0500 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: Marc W Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: About to take the plunge with a Asus a&v133 - any issues? - jrt Message-ID: <20010514220031.B63073@marx.marvic.chum> Mail-Followup-To: Marc W , FreeBSD Questions References: <200105141727.KAA06195@akira.lanfear.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200105141727.KAA06195@akira.lanfear.com>; from mwlist@lanfear.com on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:27:09AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:27:09AM -0700, Marc W wrote: > I replied to John privately on this a while back, but I actually > went and ditched my A7V because it, too, was having tonnes of problems. > > It is worth noting that I, in fact, did get FreeBSD 4.2 running on > it, and ran that way for a few months, but not without constant > troubles with the motherboard, etc... Just out of curiosity, since I have also looked at these boards. I understand that there where problems with the VIA chipsets i these motherboards. Those problems should have been fixed by a BIOS update. Did anyone try the BIOS update, and did it in fact improve system stability on this hardware? -- Victor R. Cardona vcardona@home.com "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message