From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Jun 8 10:58:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [206.168.13.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750A137B608 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 10:58:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsd@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA32266; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 11:57:58 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from fbsd@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com) Message-Id: <200006081757.LAA32266@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 From: Steve Passe To: Drew Eckhardt Cc: chad@DCFinc.com, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware and MS rant Was: Tyan Thunder 2400/i840 SMP no good In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jun 2000 00:19:13 MDT." <200006080619.e586JDR01400@chopper.Poohsticks.ORG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 11:57:58 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, > In message <200006080553.WAA15952@freeway.dcfinc.com>, chad@DCFinc.com writes: > >As I recall, Mike Smith wrote: > >> Yes. I've even see this with "high quality" SDRAM; the i840 board I'm > >> currently using has some cheap and nasty 64MB DIMMs which work fine, but > >> most of the "high quality" parts I've tried have failed miserably. > > > >Does this seem like a problem to anyone besides me? > > Sure. > ... Intel has pretty much given up on supporting sdram in 820/MTH MBs. They have announced a replacement program why you supossedly will get a new MB/RDRAM setup... See tom's hardware page for MANY articles on this mess: http://www5.tomshardware.com/mainboard/00q2/000512/index.html -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message