From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jun 6 0: 5:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from boo.TOJ.org (ip68-0-124-251.tu.ok.cox.net [68.0.124.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB4CE37B403 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 00:05:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from boo.TOJ.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by boo.TOJ.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5675U6P002610 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 02:05:31 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tom@TOJ.org) Received: (from tom@localhost) by boo.TOJ.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5675U8B002609 for freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 02:05:30 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 02:05:30 -0500 From: Tom Jackson To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ASUS a7m266-d dual Athlon board? Message-ID: <20020606020530.A2581@boo.TOJ.org> Mail-Followup-To: Tom Jackson , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from chad@shire.net on Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 12:56:30AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 12:56:30AM -0400, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > Any problems with the Asus a7m266-d dual Athlon board? I actually want > to run it with just one XP processor but I want the ECC and this chipset > is one of the few to run with ECC and an Athlon it appears. I'm running this board with 2-MPs and 2Gig of ECC. For me, the board is rock solid and has not given me any trouble. > > I currently have Abit KG7 board but I get random hangs when it starts to > get busy -- not heat as far as I can tell -- well ventilated and the air > coming out is not very warm at all. Tonight I was "dump"ing a 3 gig > partition with a full -0 dump to another disk and it hung up. I have 2 > KG7 boards and both exhibit this behavior, though the less busy one not > as often. This has the AMD 761 with the VIA 686B southbridge. I don't > have proof but am guessing some sort of incompatibility here. > If you plan to make use of the CMI8738 audio chip (sounds good) don't buy the iPanel to monitor system parameters because its update timer totally messes the sound. Also running stable, invoking 'sysctl -s' causes a panic. Not sure why. Anyhow, good luck, Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message