From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue May 2 6: 4:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.25.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4AA237B7B3 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 06:04:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Olaf.Hoyer@netsurf.de) Received: from fettesau.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (stuwopc5.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.209.5]) by mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA29146; Tue, 2 May 2000 15:03:45 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <4.1.20000502145857.00a1f7e0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> X-Sender: Olaf.Hoyer@mail.netsurf.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 15:01:26 +0200 To: Greg Lehey From: Olaf Hoyer Subject: Re: Anybody using Epox EP-7KXA Athlon motherboard? Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20000502192207.A549@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 k=E4mpft, mag zusehn,=20 da=DF er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund=20 auch in dich hinein. (Friedrich Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und B=F6se) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message