Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 01:35:27 +0100 From: "Dave J. Boers" <djb@relativity.student.utwente.nl> To: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Cc: nimrodm@email.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Abit's BP6 board lockups Message-ID: <20000104013527.A11876@relativity.student.utwente.nl> In-Reply-To: <C125685B.00311210.00@frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr>; from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr on Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 09:55:56AM %2B0100 References: <C125685B.00311210.00@frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr>
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On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 09:55:56AM +0100, Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote: > Well, the BP6 is very sensitive to external conditions : be sure to have > a good power supply, check that your RAM is very well seated, and you'll > get nevertheless strange lockups. > > It seems that Abit went cheap and did not do a good job with regulating > current on the board (not enough capacitors near the CPUs) > > Nevertheless, it's a fine board (but I'll get a 300W PSU as soon as possible) I am running Abit BP6 also with 400 Mhz Celeron's overclocked to 450 Mhz (75 Mhz FSB) without problems. I haven't had strange lockups at all, except one or two when I tried to run at 83 Mhz FSB (i.e. processors at 500 Mhz). BTW, I do have a 300 Watt PSU. Regards, Dave Boers -- True Music was born with Johann Sebastian Bach. It died with Anton Bruckner while he was working on his ninth symphony. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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