Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 08:51:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: "Todd P. Whitesel" <toddpw@apricot.com> Cc: sos@freebsd.dk, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386/22240: unstable UDMA on Iwill VD133PL v1.6 (Apollo MVP3, IDE rev 0x10) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010270840010.14348-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <200010271145.EAA04930@kamidake.apricot.com>
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On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Todd P. Whitesel wrote: > > > Hmm, if you can get access to some different brands of memory that could > > > shed some new light on this... > > I just tested two new 64 MB modules with CMT Labs "Gold" stickers on them, > purchased at a local PC chop-shop "hole in the wall" place that we've had > good experiences with so far... > > They did not improve things any. Also I tried removing the network > card and switching from AGP to PCI video; still the same > predictably flaky behavior. > > At this point I have to suspect one of four cases: > 1. received two bad P3/733EB's (really unlikely) Heh. Not with Intel's screwups as of lately. They generally are only having problems with the 1GHz+ processors right now, though. > 2. received two bad motherboards (seems likely) > 3. Iwill VD133PL or the VIA 133Pro itself have "issues" (possible) I've _never_ had good things to say about VIA, ALI, or SiS chipsets. How many ways can a company break a f@#*ing chip? Can _anybody_ make a decent chipset these days? Even Intel has managed to screw things up royally in several cases. > 4. VIA made some subtle hardware change that needs O/S support (hrm) > > In any case I am sick of spending my last four weekends trying to > get these working. Time to visit the chop-shop and get them to let > me try one of the newer i815 boards, and probably end up going > with those. The i815 will probably work much better than the VIA/SiS/ALI solutions. It is rather pitiful, however, that the ancient 440BX is still the most reliable (and fastest in many cases) chipset that Intel has. You might want to consider the ASUS CUBX or another BX-based board that has a "supported" 133MHz FSB along with some of the more modern amenities (ATA66/100, etc.). The only problem you run will run into with one of those boards is you will need an AGP card that can handle an overclocked AGP bus. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64 and PowerPC under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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