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Subject: Re: ASUS a7m266-d dual Athlon board?
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Hi Tom

On Thursday, June 6, 2002, at 01:18 , Thomas D. Dean wrote:

> I had problems with the ASUS A7N266-E w/ AMD XP 1800.
>
> The on-board vga is not supported in FreeBSD and causes a system
> freeze.
>
> ASUS will NOT provide doc for the chipset, the nVidia nForce 420D.
> nVidia will NOT provide doc for ANY chipset.
>
> AMD provides doc for their 760 series chipset.  I do not know if it
> supports ECC, but, if it does, I recommend you find a MB that has that
> chipset.
>

Thanks.  This board I asked about has the AMD 762MPX chipset I believe, 
and not the nForce nVidia crap.  I am also looking at the Tyan 2466 
board with the same chipset.

thanks
Chad

> I would avoid nVidia chipsets and ASUS motherboards because of their
> refusal to provide FreeBSD developers with docs for the chipset so
> drivers can be developed.
>
> tomdean
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