From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 15 17:15:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dv-db.com (dv-db.com [207.159.141.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F51A37B42C for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 17:15:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dvdnews.co.uk) Received: from mark2 (usr1415-wit.cableinet.co.uk [213.48.206.205]) by dv-db.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA22192; Wed, 16 May 2001 01:14:40 +0100 (GMT/BST) Message-ID: <025e01c0dd9d$319adad0$0200a8c0@mark2> From: "Mark Hughes" To: "Mark Sergeant" , "Chris Hill" Cc: "Victor R. Cardona" , "Marc W" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <200105160011.f4G0BBY05376@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> Subject: Re: About to take the plunge with a Asus a&v133 - any issues? - jrt Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 01:14:27 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What south bridge chip does this motherboard use? I've been having problems installing on a mobo with a VIA 686B south bridge and wondered if this was the same chip as on this motherboard. TIA, Mark > I had to do very little to get it to work, I have the board bios revision as of > when I bought it (4 months ago) and have the primary master ide disk plugged in > as well as a secondary master cd-rom. I haven't used the ata100 stuff at all > nor did I configure the bios apart from to get rid of the pnp os option. I have > the box running on a duron 600. > > Cheers, > > Mark > > On Tue, 15 May 2001 19:42:18 -0400 (EDT), Chris Hill said: > > :: On 14 May 2001, Mark Sergeant wrote: > :: > :: > I run a 4.2 system on one of these [Asus A7V133] motherboards, it has > :: > an uptime of 65 days... it was installed n con figured 65 days ago > :: > and as yet to have any problems, it gets 3000 odd mails and 50000 odd > :: > web hits a day without blinking. > :: > :: That's encouraging; I was about to toss it and get something else. Do > :: you recall what BIOS options you set/unset, where your disk is plugged > :: in, any other pertinent details? Basically I'm looking for what you had > :: to do to get it to work. BTW, I'm using (or trying to use) an Athlon > :: T-Bird. > :: > :: TIA. > :: > :: -- > :: Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > :: ** [ Busy Expunging <-> ] > :: > :: > :: > > -- > Mark Sergeant > Unix Systems Administrator > > Fortune follows... > > When a fly lands on the ceiling, does it do a half roll or a half > loop? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message