Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 15:01:26 +0200 From: Olaf Hoyer <Olaf.Hoyer@netsurf.de> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anybody using Epox EP-7KXA Athlon motherboard? Message-ID: <4.1.20000502145857.00a1f7e0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> In-Reply-To: <20000502192207.A549@freebie.lemis.com>
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At 19:22 02.05.00 +0930, you wrote: >I've just got a new Athlon machine with an Epox EP-7KXA motherboard. >It comes highly recommended, but I have some severe problems with the >timekeeping: it seems that the BIOS does not allow me to disable APM, >and the 8254 timekeeping goes crazy, running up to 10 times as fast as >real time. Does anybody else have one of these boards? Have you seen >the problem? (How) did you fix it? > Hi! Have talked to some guys, which also sell this board, and they told me that they'd first flash the BIOS to the current one, dated 25/4, IIRC. There were some issues in the past that were fixed with BIOS upgrades. They found it very stable, also running some benches a complete weekend to test stability (even under windows, it survived a whole weekend...) Regards Olaf Hoyer ------ Olaf Hoyer ICQ: 22838075 mailto: Olaf.Hoyer@nightfire.de home: www.nightfire.de (The home of the burning CPU) Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, daß er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein. (Friedrich Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Böse) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the messagehome | help
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