Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 11:00:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Haikal Saadh <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Athlon boards (was :Re: Anybody using Epox EP-7KXA Athlon motherboard?) Message-ID: <20000504110007.A22025@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <007a01bfb507$f484b6c0$07a093cb@timberwolf> References: <20000502192207.A549@freebie.lemis.com> <4.1.20000502145857.00a1f7e0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> <20000503084811.A1654@freebie.lemis.com> <007a01bfb507$f484b6c0$07a093cb@timberwolf>
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On Thursday, 4 May 2000 at 0:00:25 +1000, Haikal Saadh wrote: > On Wednesday, May 03, 2000 9:18 AM, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: >> 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. Well, I've solved the problems I was having by installing 5.0-CURRENT (which I had planned to do anyway). It's running fine now. It's possible it's fixed in 4-STABLE as well. The German magazine c't did a comparison of the Asus K7M, the MSI K7 Pro and the Epox 7KXA in the 5/2000 issue (28 February). They found the Epox (based on the VIA KX133 chipset) better than the other two (based on the AMD chipset). I don't know the AOpen, and it's not clear if you're talking about the same MSI board or not. 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
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