Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 15:01:26 +0200 From: Olaf Hoyer <Olaf.Hoyer@netsurf.de> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anybody using Epox EP-7KXA Athlon motherboard? Message-ID: <4.1.20000502145857.00a1f7e0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> In-Reply-To: <20000502192207.A549@freebie.lemis.com>
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At 19:22 02.05.00 +0930, you wrote: >I've just got a new Athlon machine with an Epox EP-7KXA motherboard. >It comes highly recommended, but I have some severe problems with the >timekeeping: it seems that the BIOS does not allow me to disable APM, >and the 8254 timekeeping goes crazy, running up to 10 times as fast as >real time. Does anybody else have one of these boards? Have you seen >the problem? (How) did you fix it? > Hi! Have talked to some guys, which also sell this board, and they told me that they'd first flash the BIOS to the current one, dated 25/4, IIRC. There were some issues in the past that were fixed with BIOS upgrades. They found it very stable, also running some benches a complete weekend to test stability (even under windows, it survived a whole weekend...) Regards Olaf Hoyer ------ Olaf Hoyer ICQ: 22838075 mailto: Olaf.Hoyer@nightfire.de home: www.nightfire.de (The home of the burning CPU) Wer mit Ungeheuern k=E4mpft, mag zusehn,=20 da=DF er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund=20 auch in dich hinein. (Friedrich Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und B=F6se) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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