From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 11 10:08:22 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B2337B401 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 10:08:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yama.openaccess.org (ns1.openaccess.org [216.57.214.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41DC443F3F for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 10:08:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@staff.openaccess.org) Received: from [216.57.214.90] ([216.57.214.90]) by yama.openaccess.org (8.12.6p2/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h4BH8DIu019410; Sun, 11 May 2003 10:08:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@staff.openaccess.org) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309 Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 10:08:20 -0700 From: Michael DeMan To: Tom Samplonius , Alvin Gunkel Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motherboard Recomendation X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 17:08:23 -0000 We settled on Tyan 2518GR boards last summer and they run smooth. Dual-CPU PIII, two on Board Intel 100Mbit NICs (fxp), on-board IDE RAID0, fit in 1U chassis. We also have other machines based on SuperMicro boards which I have never had a problem with over several years. On 5/9/03 10:56 PM, "Tom Samplonius" wrote: > > On Fri, 9 May 2003, Alvin Gunkel wrote: > >> Great, that's what I get for editing the first draft! The system has an >> Athlon XP 1900 processor in it, so the new motherboard would need to >> support that. >> >> Alvin > > > Well, get a ASUS or Tyan motherboard. ASUS has a nice one based on the > NVIDIA chipset (nForce2?). Try to find something that can use ECC memory. > Your RAM could be bad, and your motherboard is fine, but since you aren't > using ECC, you wouldn't know. > > Riser cards are quite a problem too. I would try to get as much stuff > on-board as possible. Riser card problems cause all sorts of random > problems like corrupted video, and page faults. > > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Michael F. DeMan Director of Technology OpenAccess Internet Services 1305 11th St., 3rd Floor Bellingham, WA 98225 Tel 360-647-0785 x204 Fax 360-738-9785 michael@staff.openaccess.org