Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 10:27:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Marc W <mwlist@lanfear.com> To: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>, Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>, John Turnbull <johnrt@home.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: About to take the plunge with a Asus a&v133 - any issues? - jrt Message-ID: <200105141727.KAA06195@akira.lanfear.com>
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> From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
> Subject: Re: About to take the plunge with a Asus a&v133 - any
issues? - jrt
> Sent: 05/14/2001 12:34>
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> On Sun, 13 May 2001, John Turnbull wrote:
>
> > Are there any known issues with installing FreeBSD 4.3 on the mew
(mid
> > April?) Asus A7V133 motherboard with a 1.1GHz T-bird and PC133
memory?
>
> If you haven't already bought it, I'd recommend looking elsewhere.
Too
> bad, because it seemed like a really nice, full-featured mobo.
>
> I bought one of these two weeks ago, and for the life of me can't
seem
> to get FreeBSD installed. Mine is an almost-identical setup: A7V133,
> 1.0 GHz Athlon T-Bird, PC133 memory. In the middle of the install I
get
> a kernel panic, reliably and repeatably. I posted the details last
week,
> but judging by the ensuing silence I would guess that nobody here
knows
> how to make this unit work.
I replied to John privately on this a while back, but I actually
went and ditched my A7V because it, too, was having tonnes of problems.
It is worth noting that I, in fact, did get FreeBSD 4.2 running on
it, and ran that way for a few months, but not without constant
troubles with the motherboard, etc...
Instead, I've now got a 266MHz DDR system with a 1.2GHz Ahtlon.
I'll probably go find another cheap PC133 system that isn't the A7V for
the 1Ghz CPU i've got right now ...
marc.
Marc W, San Francisco, CA
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