From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue May 2 16:18:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4869037BAE2 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 16:18:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA06989; Wed, 3 May 2000 08:48:11 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 08:48:11 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Olaf Hoyer Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anybody using Epox EP-7KXA Athlon motherboard? Message-ID: <20000503084811.A1654@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000502192207.A549@freebie.lemis.com> <4.1.20000502145857.00a1f7e0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <4.1.20000502145857.00a1f7e0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 2 May 2000 at 15:01:26 +0200, Olaf Hoyer wrote: > 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? > > 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...) Yes, but have you tried it under FreeBSD? I have the BIOS here, but I can't flash it because it insists on flashing from floppy. But looking at the list of fixes, I don't see anything there about APM. My BIOS is dated 17 April, so there's probably not much difference. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message