From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Mar 31 21:39:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from uce55.uchaswv.edu (uce55.uchaswv.edu [12.4.161.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FF8937B41C for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:39:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([172.16.32.103]) by uce55.uchaswv.edu (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA07633; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 00:43:52 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200204010543.AAA07633@uce55.uchaswv.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Nathan Mace To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Athlon XP MB suggestions for Server Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 00:39:06 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <33479B03-451A-11D6-9EF7-0003931BED80@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <33479B03-451A-11D6-9EF7-0003931BED80@shire.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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