Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:49:30 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nForce 3 150 vs. VIA K8T800 Message-ID: <200411191449.31117.peter@wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20041119205443.GF4339@opteron.dglawrence.com> References: <20041119203821.GE4339@opteron.dglawrence.com> <20041119205422.GA1010@lobo.homeunix.org> <20041119205443.GF4339@opteron.dglawrence.com>
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On Friday 19 November 2004 12:54 pm, David G. Lawrence wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, David G. Lawrence wrote: > > > So, given a choice between an AMD64 motherboard with nVidia > > > nForce 3 150 chipset or VIA K8T800 chipset, which one actually > > > works and what are the tradeoffs? > > > > well I had a Gigabyte G-K8NS with a socket 754 and nForce 3 250 > > chipset but switched to a ASUS A8V delux socket 939 with a chipset > > VIA K8T800 and the latter is better as well more things seem to > > work with less down sides. I think the latter is much better with > > the dual channel memory and runs faster. But then again this is > > only my recent experience with AMD64. > > I recall some folks were recently having stability problems with > one of the VIA chipsets - any idea which chipset that was? > > -DG We have lots of problems on all of the nForce3-150 chipset based boards that I've tried. I think most of the fault lies with the reference bios being lousy, but even if you hack around the bios, all sorts of strange things happen, especially with apic enabled. I really don't know who's at fault here. I would not rule out a freebsd bug or misunderstanding somewhere. I personally have had no problems with via chipset boards. Except for stupid reference bioses that have a MBR partition type whitelist and disable the usb keyboard for partition types that they don't recognize as being usb keyboard safe... It is really annoying.. In boot0 and boot1 [which are entirely int 10 bios based] the bios reports no keyboard events. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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