From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jan 10 6: 7:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from cage.tse-online.de (cage.tse-online.de [194.97.69.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E9AE14A08 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 06:07:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ab@cage.tse-online.de) Received: (qmail 46419 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Jan 2000 14:08:47 -0000 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:08:47 +0100 From: Andreas Braukmann To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gigabyte Athlon motherboard Message-ID: <20000110150847.J86925@cage.tse-online.de> References: <3879BD8F.3EB381B7@sarenet.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3879BD8F.3EB381B7@sarenet.es>; from borjamar@sarenet.es on Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 12:07:59PM +0100 Organization: TSE GmbH - Neue Medien Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 12:07:59PM +0100, Borja Marcos wrote: > I'm considering a Gigabyte GA-71X with an AMD Athlon CPU. > It will run *exclusively* FreeBSD, and the dealer has said me that so does my new box. GA-71X, K7-700, 256 MB PC-100 DIMM, Tekram 390U2W (sym0), fxp0, Matrox G400, > they have observed stability problems with Windows. hmmm. The K7-boards _are_ very very sensitive to memory problems. My first two 128MByte Dimms lead to various problems at install time (e.g. just reading garbage from the cpio-archives on the FreeBSD-CD-ROM). After adjusting the memory timing parameters in the BIOS-setup to some more conservative settings the machine ran rock-stable. > Does this CPU/motherboard work well with FreeBSD? I would > use a 500 or 700 MHz CPU. -Andreas -- : TSE GmbH Neue Medien : Gsf: Arne Reuter : : : Hovestrasse 14 : Andreas Braukmann : We do it with : : D-48351 Everswinkel : HRB: 1430, AG WAF : FreeBSD/SMP : :--------------------------------------------------------------------: : Anti-Spam Petition: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ : : PGP-Key: http://www.tse-online.de/~ab/public-key : : Key fingerprint: 12 13 EF BC 22 DD F4 B6 3C 25 C9 06 DC D3 45 9B : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message