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Date:      Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:11:26 -0600
From:      Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
To:        Bernhard Beck <bbeck@mindmaker.com>
Cc:        "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Athlon Thunderbird 700 w. Asus K7M Motherboard vs. FreeBSD 4.2
Message-ID:  <20010124141126.A97916@luke.immure.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A5F95AF.F8B120D4@mindmaker.com>; from bbeck@mindmaker.com on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:39:27PM -0800
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>

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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.

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-- 
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


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