Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:38:22 +0100 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> To: Neil Bradley <neil@synthcom.com> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual/Quad PIII motherboard ... recommendations requested ... Message-ID: <20000313163822.A40087@rohrbach.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003130014380.24123-100000@beacon.synthcom.com>; from neil@synthcom.com on Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 12:17:49AM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003130224540.62033-100000@thelab.hub.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003130014380.24123-100000@beacon.synthcom.com>
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hiya * asus p2b-d* boards: upgrade the firmware, most of the boards get delivered with an old bios that doesnt set the mptable information the correct way, so the ap cpu seems to die and other weird stuff. had that with several p2b-ds boards and they now work like a charm with 3.4 on dual piii-500 boxes... same thing with ami megarum ii (cool board by the way when you dont need to keep your budgets tiny)... always upgrade to the newest firmware or you got problems detecting the 2nd cpu or even attach 64bit pci cards. and you wont get it to run with piii's anyway if you dont flash a news bios since the one that comes in the flash only recognizes pii types. have fun... /k Neil Bradley(neil@synthcom.com)@Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 12:17:49AM -0800: > > What are ppl recommending nowadays as far as stable Dual/Quad > > motherboards? ASUS, to me, has always been "the safe bet", is that still > > the case? > > Funny that so many have had good luck with Asus. I've had consistently bad > (read that, reliability) luck with them. > > If you're going for slot 1 motherboards, Supermicro has been quite good to > me, specifically the P6DBE, but it's 440BX based and only supports 1 > gigabyte of RAM. I haven't looked at or worked with their 810/820/840 > based boards (yet) nor have I with their slot 2 solutions. > > -->Neil > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Neil Bradley Seti@Home Hall of Shame on a 80386DX16, Intel 80387 > Synthcom Systems, Inc. 32MB RAM, Win 95 Status: 48.425% complete > ICQ # 29402898 CPU Time: 1721 Hours 14 minutes 53.4 sec > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message -- > Sure eating yogurt will improve your sex life. People know that if > you'll eat that stuff, you'll eat anything. http://www.webmonster.de http://www.apache.de http://www.splatterworld.de (NIC-HDL KR433/KR11-RIPE) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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