Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 18:39:49 -0700 From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com> To: "Linh Pham" <lplist@closedsrc.org>, "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: "~/.signature" <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu>, "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: the AMD factor in FreeBSD Message-ID: <001101c0cb96$49486cb0$aa240018@cx443070b> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104221735110.59297-100000@q.closedsrc.org>
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> I think Intel and AMD are going to have a huge battle and uphill climb > to keep (or gain) the processor-king crown. Via isn't helping out any > either :) Don't talk to me about Via. :) I use to love their chipsets, and I still do to a degree. However, my main production super-duper SMP colo'ed FreeBSD box of which I've put almost two grand into, has had random lockups on heavy IDE access since I set it up. I thought it was the drive or something. Then this Via southbridge bug comes out, and it's in almost every motherboard I own including my server and my Athlon 1ghz system at home. Yes, I've had random lockups at home for quite a while and yes I own a Sound Blaster Live!. This chipset bug has been the bane of my existance for about 2 years and I never suspected it was all one bug in the Via chipset motherboards I have. It almost makes me ill when I think of the number of times I've ripped my home box apart or had to have my friend who works at the colo reboot my box, wondering why my systems are so prone to lockups. They'd better get BIOS fixes out YESTERDAY. My motherboards are Tyan and Asus and I didn't pay any small amount to have "good" motherboards in my systems. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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