From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 14 14:22:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3265153EF for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:22:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from akane (ppp113.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.113]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA14254; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:21:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:01:22 -0700 () From: Rick Hamell To: "Booth, Christopher" Cc: "'freebsd'" Subject: Re: Further Motherboard Queries In-Reply-To: <199907140206.WAA10543@interlock.mgh.com> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@dsinw.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Am I asking the right question? Will a standard PC motherboard and CPU that > are compatible with each other work with FreeBSD in any case, and the > question is just one of dependability? I guess that I am assuming that a > motherboard might be like, say a sound card or modem and just not work with > FreeBSD. Is this assumption wrong? To a certain extent yes, people around here are using all types of motherboards with few problems. The general consenses still seems to be Asus from a quality standpoint. I've personally used Soltek and Gigabyte in addition to the Asus, besides %50 of my Gigabyte boards going bad there has been no FreeBSD-related issues. They've all worked fine. You may have to worry about the UDMA stuff, but since I use only SCSI I've never run into those problems. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message