Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:30:59 +0200 From: Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org> To: JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mb recommendation Message-ID: <20060425143059.GA67229@aoi.wolfpond.org> In-Reply-To: <200604251007.27344.joao@matik.com.br> References: <444DF001.7020305@jetnet.co.uk> <20060425120051.GA33020@aoi.wolfpond.org> <200604251007.27344.joao@matik.com.br>
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On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:07:27AM -0300, JoaoBR wrote: > On Tuesday 25 April 2006 09:00, Francois Tigeot wrote: > > > > Asus A8V-E-SE > > > > Socket 939, PCI-E. > > > > VIA chipset with a SATA pseudo-RAID implementation. > > > > Everything works perfectly (running an Opteron here) with the caveat that > > you can't use 4GB of memory. > > > > Every 64-bit OS I have tested crashed with 4GB populated. Up to three GB, > > this board is fine. > > > crashes under which condition? 4 GB of memory (4x1GB Kingston ECC) and the option to remap memory > 4GB set to on in the BIOS. FreeBSD, Centos, SuSE, Ubuntu, etc... all crashed. AFAIK, it is a bug in the Asus A8V-E-SE BIOS. The same memory and processor worked fine in a real server board. See this thread for reference: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-April/024622.html -- Francois Tigeot
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