Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:03:47 -0400 From: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> To: Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mb recommendation Message-ID: <444E8EB3.1090100@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <20060425143059.GA67229@aoi.wolfpond.org> References: <444DF001.7020305@jetnet.co.uk> <20060425120051.GA33020@aoi.wolfpond.org> <200604251007.27344.joao@matik.com.br> <20060425143059.GA67229@aoi.wolfpond.org>
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Francois Tigeot wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:07:27AM -0300, JoaoBR wrote: > >> On Tuesday 25 April 2006 09:00, Francois Tigeot wrote: >> >>> Asus A8V-E-SE >>> >>> Socket 939, PCI-E. >>> >>> VIA chipset with a SATA pseudo-RAID implementation. >>> >>> Everything works perfectly (running an Opteron here) with the caveat that >>> you can't use 4GB of memory. >>> >>> Every 64-bit OS I have tested crashed with 4GB populated. Up to three GB, >>> this board is fine. >>> >> crashes under which condition? >> > > 4 GB of memory (4x1GB Kingston ECC) and the option to remap memory > 4GB set > to on in the BIOS. > > FreeBSD, Centos, SuSE, Ubuntu, etc... all crashed. > Thats why we don't use desktop motherboards for servers. I would recommend you stick with Tyan or Supermicro.
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