>No modification on the Celerons. The PC100 slockets are dual speed/dual >boot like the MicroStar 6905 v1.1's. Got them as I saw several NT >servers >up and running with them on and watched one boot up to check it was all >OK >- and they were half the price of one MSI board for a pair, so thought >i'd >see how they went and could report on them either way back to relevent >groups. Had a quick look at the MTRR related docs and i'll build a boot >kernel tonight, however the bogomips is down even when I put in a single >300A Celeron which I thought was bizarre... more fun and games later > >If anyone on the list has put a distribution on this m/b i'd love to >hear >any reports, problems or distribution type specifics. I got exact same board you have Tyan S1696DLUA Thunder 2, running BIOS version 2.00 (not 2.00R), 2 Pentium II 300mhz CPUs with 128MB RAM, 3 SCSI-UW 4.3 HD, SCSI CD and CD-Writer, SCSI Tape Drive (all on Channel A all the time), Channel B for externel use on Scanner and CD-Writer Externel (not plug in all the time). I put 3 different distributions on the system before including Redhat 5.2 & 6.0, OpenLinux 2.2, and SuSE 6.1. they all running fine with SMP enable with RAID-5. Kernel tried starting 2.2.1, now the system running RedHat 6.0 with Kernel 2.2.6. I didn't any SCSI problems beside sometime the device st0 (tape drive) cannot be mount correctly under different distributions. I even tried with IDE HD, 1st one is a 2.0G IDE, 2nd one is a 8.4G UDMA. both working fine. I tried with Celeron CPU (no modify), I have 2 Celeron 300A, put them in, but the motherboard doesn't recongise them, since they are not SMP ready. even I put 1 Celeron 300A, the system cannot run correctly, I bet the I need the BIOS version 2.02 to make it work. I had a lot of trouble with the motherboard at the beginning when I bought it like 1 year ago. after BIOS upgrade couple times and download a lot of update drivers, it run very smooth right now can dual boot with NT and Linux. hope this help you, Good Luck, Louis - Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/mentre/smp-faq/ To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
