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From: jleppek@suw2k.hisd.harris.com (James Leppek)
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To: gunther@informatik.uni-rostock.de
Subject: Re: Anyone Experiences with Intel TXC Chipset or GA-586DX/GA-586HX motherboard ??
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I have been using the GA-586HX board with 32 meg of 60ns EDO memory
for a while and the only problem I had was that I could
not use the EDO setting from the manual for the RAS-CAS delay.
I could lower all other settings but things became unstable with
a RAS-CAS of 2 (which is what the manual says for EDO) but 3 works fine.

Jim Leppek

> From owner-freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org  Tue Aug 13 07:24:31 1996
> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:04:37 +0200
> From: Gunther Hipper <gunther@informatik.uni-rostock.de>
> To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG,
>         freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Anyone Experiences with Intel TXC Chipset or GA-586DX/GA-586HX motherboard ??
> Cc: gunther@ceylon.informatik.uni-rostock.de
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> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
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> 
> Hi to you all !
> 
> I've a certain problem because I would like to buy new
> motherboards which should be albe to run FreeBSD.
> The boards are
> 
> Gigabyte GA-586HX and/or GA-586DX
> 
> both (hopefully) state of the art ... but I don't yet
> know any guy using them. The Chipset is an
> 
> Intel TXC 82439HX Rev.01h
> 
> in both boards. Until now, we always used Gigabyte boards
> - everything works fine with GA-486DX and GA-486ATE
> (Triton Chipset). Now my questions:
> 
> Is anyone using one or both of these boards ?
> Are there any problems or are certain problems to be
> expected running FreeBSD ?
> 
> Mention: I do _not_ explicitly care about SMP on the
> GA-586DX Dual-CPU-Slot board. If it's running - okay,
> but for the moment a single processor should be enough.
> Propably, the board should be Intel-SMP conform.
> This is an Intel chipset, hell, is'nt it ?
> 
> I'd be glad if someone could give me some hints.
> 
> Gunther
> 
> Gunther Hipper                 |    
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