Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 16:33:04 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, FreeBSD hackers list <FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: opinions requested on new mainboard purchase Message-ID: <199802160033.QAA03858@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Feb 1998 08:37:05 %2B1030." <19980216083705.18143@freebie.lemis.com>
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> On Sun, 15 February 1998 at 11:23:58 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > -- Please reply in private email, no need to clutter -hackers > > > > I'm shopping for a new mainboard to replace my old Asus P55TP4XE. It's > > lacking a VRM so I can't really upgrade the CPU with something more current. > > > > Appreciate comments on Asus TXP4 and Asus TX97-E Other suggestions also > > welcome, but no ATX boards please. > > A number of TX based motherboards, including the IWill P55XB2 and an > unnamed Totem board, have problems with the serial ports. I can't get > FreeBSD to recognize them at all. I recall asking you to try overriding the probe failure to see if the ports actually worked OK. Have you had a chance to do this yet? > While people are recommending, what would you recommend for a 128 MB > RAM system? Almost all boards nowadays are TX, but they only cache 64 > MB. 430HX, 440FX, 440LX or VIA VP3. There are some really nice boards based on the latter out now, try www.fic.com.tw - distributed in Australia by Chips'n'Bits. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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