From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Jul 27 15:41:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f236.hotmail.com [207.82.251.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A7D714F0F for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 15:41:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from the_hermit665@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 11371 invoked by uid 0); 27 Jul 1999 22:39:48 -0000 Message-ID: <19990727223948.11370.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 216.160.92.86 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 15:38:49 PDT X-Originating-IP: [216.160.92.86] Reply-To: the_hermit665@hotmail.com From: "Cosmic 665" To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Processor Motherboards Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 15:38:49 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >> 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