On Thursday, 8 June 2000 at 17:33:13 -0600, Wes Peters wrote:
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
>>
>> I'm considering buying an Athlon based machine. Before shelling out the
>> $ (well, fl ) I'd like to know what experiences have with Athlon and
>> FreeBSD. And obviously which mom boards to prefer or keep away from.
>
> EPoX == trash. Avoid like the plague.
Buy EPoX. They're good.
> ASUS K7v == good.
ASUS K7v == slow.
I don't think that categorical statements like these help very much.
I know you've had trouble with your EPoX boards, but you didn't ever
find out whether this was a setup problem or a problem with the board.
I had some setup problems with my EPoX board when I bought it, the
dreaded:
May 3 08:00:02 wantadilla /kernel: microuptime() went backwards (65202.831743 ->
65202,804412)
I removed (not just disabled) apm from the kernel, and I haven't seen
the problem since. In fact, I have had absolutely no problems. The
fact that a disabled apm system can make a difference suggests that
this isn't just a problem with the motherboard. A number of others
have reported the same thing on this motherboard.
Greg
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