From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed May 3 6:51:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from bne005m.server-mail.com (bne005m.server-mail.com [202.139.234.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A196E37B967 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 06:51:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wyldephyre2@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 31443 invoked from network); 3 May 2000 13:51:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO timberwolf) (203.147.160.7) by bne005m.server-mail.com with SMTP; 3 May 2000 13:51:42 -0000 Message-ID: <007a01bfb507$f484b6c0$07a093cb@timberwolf> From: "Haikal Saadh" To: References: <20000502192207.A549@freebie.lemis.com> <4.1.20000502145857.00a1f7e0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> <20000503084811.A1654@freebie.lemis.com> Subject: Athlon boards (was :Re: Anybody using Epox EP-7KXA Athlon motherboard?) Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 00:00:25 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Lehey To: Olaf Hoyer Cc: Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 9:18 AM Subject: Re: Anybody using Epox EP-7KXA Athlon motherboard? > 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. > *snip* I'm planning to get an Athlon mobo within a week, and that board was on the list of candidates. The others are the AOpen AK72 and MSI's new board. The AOpen looks best so far, as the MSI does not support AGP 4x or 133 Mhz. Anyone got any other recommendations? I'm eyeing the Athlon 700. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message