Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 15:38:49 PDT From: "Cosmic 665" <the_hermit665@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Processor Motherboards Message-ID: <19990727223948.11370.qmail@hotmail.com>
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> >> I had the following questions: > >> 1) Do people have specific recommendations about boards to buy/don't >buy? > >I would reccomend against the Tyan Thunder 100. Call it bad luck, but >through no fault of my own (misuse, trauma, etc) my SIXTH board in a year >is arriving tomorrow. I have had 2 bad PS/2 Keyboard Ports, a failed PS/2 >mouse port, a bad SCSI controller, and most recently a bad IDE controller. >Perhaps my reseller just got a bad batch, but this has been insane. > > -Jeff Casimir Add any ALTON's to the list as well... DON'T get any board from www.pcwave.com or it's china distributor www.pcchips.com. Not only do these boards suck I believe they contain invalid FCC id's. They allways die in some way-shape-or form. Also, the Dual-333Mhz (NON-Celeron.. tried that..) System I'm running often halts while loading the Kernel... Dies *sometimes* when leaving X & dies when returning to X from a VC in X (that could be totally X related). The voltage and I/O cards on most of the "Super Socket 7's " *Like to die* after +90 days (just in time for the warranty to be up :P). I've used a total of 8 of them... all but the Dual-CPU system I'm on now has failed... (knock on wood this one won't fail *There is a god ... there is a GOD :P*). A dead giveaway on this motherboard is if the *BOX* says *MainBoard* Accross the side.... run... There's a Subliminal message to those letters that SAY "Mainboard & "Super Socket 7 accross the box".. The hidden message is "DEAD-BOARD" and "SUPER FUCK-YOU-7"!!!! sorry about the profanity :P ... this is only true... don't get got....... -Cosmic-665 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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