Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 00:39:06 -0500 From: Nathan Mace <nmace85@yahoo.com> To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Athlon XP MB suggestions for Server Message-ID: <200204010543.AAA07633@uce55.uchaswv.edu> In-Reply-To: <33479B03-451A-11D6-9EF7-0003931BED80@shire.net> References: <33479B03-451A-11D6-9EF7-0003931BED80@shire.net>
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On Sunday 31 March 2002 09:43 pm, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > Hi All > > I am looking to purchase two motherboards for my servers. I'd like to > use Athlon XP (single processor) CPUs and motherboards. > > These are used as servers, both email and web, and have Adaptec 2100S > disk controllers and U160 disks, and later model Intel 2114x Kingston > KNE100TX nics. Generic PCI video cards that are used as a console only, > normally with nothing on them > > Otherwise no PCI cards. > > This is to replace almost three year old Abit bp6 boards, each running 2 > celerons (not overclocked). These boards have run 24x7 and I'd like to > replace them before they develop problems. They are currently at 4.2R > > I was looking at the Abit KG7 board, with the latest BIOS. I searched > the archives and found that Greg Lehey mentioned a problem with the > same southbridge chip as used in the KG7, but only that one problem. > Others seemed to indicate it was OK. > > I would like to install 4.5R or S and it should run 24x7, > semi-unattended (I am in NH, the machines live in SLC UT, but the > colocate people will push the buttons to reboot or whatever). > > Needs to support ECC memory (as much as possible for future use) . > > Any recommendations, suggestion, criticisms, or KG7 data points would be > appreciated. > > Thanks > Chad > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message i have an abit k7 motherboard with a 900 mhz duron...although i have the version with no RAID. i havn't had a bit of trouble out of it except for the cpu temp moniter...which is really no big deal nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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