Heh, drop a BT8x8 tuner it in, or many other Bus Mastering controllers and it will bite you.
Unfortunately I found this out the hard way on 6 different systems I own. The famous "clock timer" problem screws up DMA transfers on Via, & AliMagik chipsets. Abit, Asus, Gigabyte are all plagued by this... -JMS |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tony S. Sykes |Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 5:02 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [newbie] AMD system question | | |I use an Asus board with amd(xp 1600), no probs, I have always |used amd chips for last 5 years, last 2 on linux, and never |had a problem, with several motherboards, abit, asus, gigabyte |running amd various flavours. |
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