From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 24 12:12: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from luke.immure.com (luke.immure.com [207.8.42.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF80D37B6A4 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:11:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0OKBQi99174; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:11:26 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:11:26 -0600 From: Bob Willcox To: Bernhard Beck Cc: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Athlon Thunderbird 700 w. Asus K7M Motherboard vs. FreeBSD 4.2 Message-ID: <20010124141126.A97916@luke.immure.com> Reply-To: Bob Willcox References: <3A5F1F43.EE70CB3C@inode.at> <20010112161044.A97484@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <009e01c07cb7$132d9e30$3028680a@tgt.com> <3A5F3951.9932EED5@mindmaker.com> <00d101c07cbe$4f1f84b0$3028680a@tgt.com> <3A5F95AF.F8B120D4@mindmaker.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A5F95AF.F8B120D4@mindmaker.com>; from bbeck@mindmaker.com on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:39:27PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I can attest to the fact that Slot A thunderbirds do exist. I own 3 of them (one 900 and 2 700 MHz). I guess I was fortunate that my Slot A thuderbirds worked properly (all running FreeBSD) in the MBs (MSI and Abit) that I have, though I have also heard that problems exist with some MBs Bob On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:39:27PM -0800, Bernhard Beck wrote: > According to an article published in c't 14/2000, page 32 (online at > http://www.heise.de/ct/00/14/032/default.shtml, use Altavista's > Babelfish to translate), Slot A Thunderbirds do exist. In a nutshell > among other things AMD slightly changed the bus interface design on the > Thunderbirds so that you need chipsets like VIA KT133, KM133 or AMD 760. > But under certain conditions the Thunderbird can also work with a KX133 > or the Irongate chipset. > There is a nice table at the end of the article listing a few Slot A > motherboards and if they worked or not with the two sample Slot A > Thunderbirds c't had available in their lab at that time. > Michael's Asus K7M with Irongate chipset is listed as working with the > exact same BIOS version. ... snip ... -- Bob Willcox The reason we come up with new versions is not to bob@vieo.com fix bugs. It's absolutely not. Austin, TX -- Bill Gates To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message