On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:03:25PM -0500, Patrick Cole wrote:
> I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but it seems that
> almost all the people I've seen that have BP6 problems are running
> Matrox G400 cards. Perhaps this is a possible cause, and if it is,
> what does Abit have to say about it. Obviously if the QQ bios fixes
> some problems then Abit made some mistakes when they designed the
> board. Perhaps they could confirm this also.
This has come up before. An inordinate number of list members do use
Matroxes.
> I know I'm runing a G400 32MB DualHead, and I got lockups
> periodically until I got the QQ beta bios. It seems to have dimmed
> most of my problems for the time being, but I suspect they will
> arise again, maybe not as frequently though.
>
> If anybody is running something other than a matrox it would be nice
> if you could come forward so that I can gather a bigger picture as
> to what the cause might be of these lockups. The reason I think
> it's the Matrox/BP6 combo is that I know several people that have
> run their SMP bp6 systems overclocked from 333 -> 500+ with matrox
> g200's and other cards (other than the g400) and had absolutely no
> lockups with it.
Well, I have a G200 and have had more lockups than I'd care to count.
I think if you dig around you'll find enough with other cards having
problems as well. Also, PCI/AGP makes no difference.
There is a database of hardware/configs/crash reports at:
http://www.bitwizard.nl/cgi-bin/abit
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