From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Dec 30 8:31:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from taxismtp1.alchemyfx.com (taxismtp1.alchemyfx.com [208.232.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 568B9151F7 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 08:31:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gummibear@nettaxi.com) Received: from h5b2b3 (dialup-63.208.243.98.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [63.208.243.98]) by taxismtp1.alchemyfx.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA07987 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:11:54 -0800 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19991228202905.007937f0@pop1.nettaxi.com> X-Sender: gummibear@pop1.nettaxi.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 20:29:05 -0800 To: hardware@freebsd.org From: Joseph Garcia Subject: Which Super 7 Board? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hey all!! Okay, I have been using Super 7 boards (an Asus P5A and a FIC 2013) which have given me pretty good performance, although after installing a quirky network card they haven't been the same since. First I'll fill you in the problems I have been having. It has to do with PCI IRQ settings. On the Asus board I have an ISA PnP modem, SoundBlaster 16, a PCI Intel NIC, and an AGP ATI 3D Charger video card. I have run both FreeBSD and Win98 on this machine. With this equipment I gets shared IRQ's with the NIC and video card. If I try to add more PCI cards the card might not work at all, or other weird stuff happens. It's as though if there is more than one PCI card installed the PCI bus slots stop working. This seems to happen with the FIC board too. I have tried to set the IRQ manually in the BIOS but that didn't work either. Anyways, I'm thinking I should just dump the boards and get new socket 7 boards since my chip and ram is good and stuff. Maybe my PCI cards could be salvaged too. I'm to my wits end here. It's one of those things that you'd have to see for yourself to comprehend. Any help would be appreciated. Joey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message