Re: Clarification on AMD FM2+ CPUs and motherboards

2016-07-22 Thread Dan Ritter
u want a nice low-cost chip, AMD does pretty well. > I've done a fair amount of googling, but I'm confused. IIUC, at least some > of > the FM2+ processors come with graphic processors built into the CPU, but, > iiuc, not all FM2+ motherboards support that. > > Furt

Clarification on AMD FM2+ CPUs and motherboards

2016-07-22 Thread rhkramer
ut I'm confused. IIUC, at least some of the FM2+ processors come with graphic processors built into the CPU, but, iiuc, not all FM2+ motherboards support that. Further, maybe some FM2+ motherboards provide graphics capability on the motherboard, but not utilizing the GPU built into the p

Re: Winsonic Motherboards

2010-07-22 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:53:25 +0300, David Baron wrote: > Anybody had experience with these? I don't even know the manufacturer (Winsonic) :-? > Have SATA, Giga NIC, everything. Intel chipset. > > Anything special needed in kernel? If you have the mainboard model, a Google search will tell you

Re: Winsonic Motherboards

2010-07-21 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 7/21/10 8:53 AM, David Baron wrote: Anybody had experience with these? Have SATA, Giga NIC, everything. Intel chipset. Anything special needed in kernel? Who makes the SATA controller? Who makes the NIC? Chipset is standard, and unless it's newer Intel it could have a completely differe

Winsonic Motherboards

2010-07-21 Thread David Baron
Anybody had experience with these? Have SATA, Giga NIC, everything. Intel chipset. Anything special needed in kernel? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Motherboards

2010-05-25 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 05/25/2010 01:03 PM, Jean-François wrote: Hello, I might be wrong, but I guess the exact name for your motherboard is DFI Lanparty DK p45-t2rs PLUS (as opposed to the Elite or Turbo models), which has 8 SATAII ports, and I also guess you have used the two yellow ports? If so, plug your dri

Re: Motherboards

2010-05-25 Thread Jean-François
Le 25/05/10 18:44, Jordan Metzmeier a écrit : I run Debian Lenny on a DFI Lanparty DK p45-t2rs. I really like the board but it did throw a curveball at me. Since it had an Intel ICH10R southbridge, I expected it to have an Intel ICH storage controller and use the ata_piix driver. This was not t

Re: Motherboards

2010-05-25 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 05/25/2010 11:55 AM, David Baron wrote: Anyone with experience and Debian-related information on motherboards by DFI and by Winsonic? Apparently of the few which support modern CPU and memory and still sport as ISA slot or two. I run Debian Lenny on a DFI Lanparty DK p45-t2rs. I really

Motherboards

2010-05-25 Thread David Baron
Anyone with experience and Debian-related information on motherboards by DFI and by Winsonic? Apparently of the few which support modern CPU and memory and still sport as ISA slot or two. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-26 Thread Justin
> So is the problem caused by the fact windows does not support soft raid > 1 well? Windows does softraid1 fine, it just doesn't do it the same as Linux. ie. Windows won't mount a softraid made in Linux and Linux won't mount a softraid made in Windows.

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-25 Thread Mark Allums
Stephen Liu wrote: --- Mark Allums wrote: - snip - Only certain editions of Windows can boot from soft raid, and none of the consumer versions. Just the server/enterprise ones. One can use fake/soft raid with cheap add-in cards, like the stuff Highpoint does with their low-end cards. T

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-25 Thread Stephen Liu
--- Mark Allums wrote: - snip - > Only certain editions of Windows can boot from soft raid, and none of > > the consumer versions. Just the server/enterprise ones. > > One can use fake/soft raid with cheap add-in cards, like the stuff > Highpoint does with their low-end cards. The advant

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-25 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 04:27:41PM -0400, Justin wrote: > I have 4 hard disk, 2x320 in raid0 for the OS and 2x1TB in raid1 for > storage. On the raid0 I dualboot Windows and Fedora. The motherboard's > fakeraid is excellent because it provides a common interface between Windows > and Fedora. For th

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-25 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/26 Justin : >>  We had a boarder who used fake-raid in the fashion you mention and >> was bitten badly by a raid chip failure. No spare motherboard, no >> backups, everything gone. >> >> Adrian > > Of course, I'm well aware of the drawbacks to fakeraid and they've been > covered here pretty

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-25 Thread Mark Allums
Justin wrote: > > Is > > there any advantage compared with software raid? > > > > I only see disadvantages. Thanks, I appreciate your advice. Here's the advantage to fakeraid to me. Keep in mind it won't apply to most people. I have 4 hard disk, 2x320 in raid

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-25 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/26 Justin : >> > >  Is >> > > there any advantage compared with software raid? >> > > >> > >> > I only see disadvantages. >> >> Thanks, I appreciate your advice. > > > Here's the advantage to fakeraid to me. Keep in mind it won't apply to most > people. > > I have 4 hard disk, 2x320 in raid0

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-25 Thread Justin
> > > > Is > > > there any advantage compared with software raid? > > > > > > > I only see disadvantages. > > Thanks, I appreciate your advice. Here's the advantage to fakeraid to me. Keep in mind it won't apply to most people. I have 4 hard disk, 2x320 in raid0 for the OS and 2x1TB in raid1 f

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090425045724.ga2...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 06:22:43PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <20090424225855.ga...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang >> >> wrote: >> >Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:14:12PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > Dear debian community, > > > > Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers are fake raid > > and the debian community seems to advise using software raid in debian. > > > > I wonder why th

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 06:22:43PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090424225855.ga...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang > wrote: > >Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers are fake raid > >and the debian community seems to advise using software raid in debi

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090424225855.ga...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers are fake raid >and the debian community seems to advise using software raid in debian. It allows lesser operating systems to boot from software RAID-1 (and I thin

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-24 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > Dear debian community, > > Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers are fake raid > and the debian community seems to advise using software raid in debian. > > I wonder why they include such fake raid controllers on motherboard. It is cheap to do, but makes

why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community, Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers are fake raid and the debian community seems to advise using software raid in debian. I wonder why they include such fake raid controllers on motherboard. Is there any advantage compared with software raid? Thanks, -

list of amd64 motherboards fully supported by sarge or Etch

2006-08-20 Thread Siju George
Hi, Is there any place where i can get a list of amd64 motherboards fully supported by sarge or Etch? Thankyou so much Kind Regards Siju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Dual Athlon motherboards - recommendations?

2004-03-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 02:47:01PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya pigeon > > On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Pigeon wrote: > > > Anyone care to recommend me a dual Athlon motherboard? Requirements: > > > > - cheap :-) > > - DDR 266MHz min, 333MHz preferred > > - does *NOT* have an nVidia chipset > > - 5 (

Re: [OT] Dual Athlon motherboards - recommendations?

2004-03-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 06:53:45AM +0800, Katipo wrote: > For my money, the A7M266-D from Asus still takes some beating... I only found one vendor, and they wanted two and a half grand for it! The rest are all saying "not available [at the moment]". Pity, really. > It's hard to get a board these

Re: [OT] Dual Athlon motherboards - recommendations?

2004-02-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Graham Campbell wrote: > > > I think the Tyan Thunder K7X Pro (S2469) meets most of your specs, but I > > > don't know about availablity/price in the UK. > > > > that mb has 3 pic slots > ?? > > > > and the k7 series is an old old mb ... and used a whacky atxges po

Re: [OT] Dual Athlon motherboards - recommendations?

2004-02-28 Thread Greg Folkert
functionality, > making it hard to find one or two dual-CPU boards among hundreds of > single-CPU boards. http://www.pricewatch.com Good place to at least get the Models and so on to look for. Very Few Dual Processor Motherboards will be cheap. Some don;t even have AGP or PCI-X slots. Som

Re: [OT] Dual Athlon motherboards - recommendations?

2004-02-28 Thread Graham Campbell
On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 20:19, Alvin Oga wrote: See interspersed comments: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 07:45:43PM -0500, Graham Campbell wrote: > > On Saturday 28 February 2004 04:46 pm, Pigeon wrote: > > > Anyone care to recommend me a dual Athlon motherboard? Requirements: > > > > > > - cheap :-) >

Re: [OT] Dual Athlon motherboards - recommendations?

2004-02-28 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 07:45:43PM -0500, Graham Campbell wrote: > On Saturday 28 February 2004 04:46 pm, Pigeon wrote: > > Anyone care to recommend me a dual Athlon motherboard? Requirements: > > > > - cheap :-) > > - DDR 266MHz min, 333MHz preferred > > - does *NOT* have an nVidia chipset > > - 5

Re: [OT] Dual Athlon motherboards - recommendations?

2004-02-28 Thread Graham Campbell
On Saturday 28 February 2004 04:46 pm, Pigeon wrote: > Anyone care to recommend me a dual Athlon motherboard? Requirements: > > - cheap :-) > - DDR 266MHz min, 333MHz preferred > - does *NOT* have an nVidia chipset > - 5 (or more) PCI slots, ideally inc. one 64-bit slot > - No need for any on-board

Re: [OT] Dual Athlon motherboards - recommendations?

2004-02-28 Thread Alvin Oga
making it hard to find one or two dual-CPU boards among hundreds of > single-CPU boards. yup tooo many junk links from google and i assume the same to hold for froogle ?? avoid all webstore links when looking for motherboards with particular specs - find a store that give you al

Re: [OT] Dual Athlon motherboards - recommendations?

2004-02-28 Thread Katipo
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 21:46:11 + Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone care to recommend me a dual Athlon motherboard? Requirements: > > - cheap :-) > - DDR 266MHz min, 333MHz preferred > - does *NOT* have an nVidia chipset > - 5 (or more) PCI slots, ideally inc. one 64-bit slot > - No nee

[OT] Dual Athlon motherboards - recommendations?

2004-02-28 Thread Pigeon
Anyone care to recommend me a dual Athlon motherboard? Requirements: - cheap :-) - DDR 266MHz min, 333MHz preferred - does *NOT* have an nVidia chipset - 5 (or more) PCI slots, ideally inc. one 64-bit slot - No need for any on-board graphics/ethernet/sound etc. (though on-board ethernet reduces

RE: K7VTA3 Mainboard socket A motherboards

2003-01-14 Thread Colin Ellis
and see if the situation improves. Colin Ellis Solution City Ltd http://www.solution-city.com -Original Message- From: user list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 January 2003 15:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: K7VTA3 Mainboard socket A motherboards This is a follow up to the wierd

K7VTA3 Mainboard socket A motherboards

2003-01-13 Thread user list
This is a follow up to the wierd behavior on new nodes. I am testing memory with memtest86 and, so far, I'm finding nothing wrong. These machines die at random placesin a job. where they die doesn't follow any logical pattern. Are there any pathologies with this main board. Art Edwards -- To U

Re: Motherboards

2002-10-01 Thread Steve Cooper
>From Vikki Roemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 07:32:27PM -0400: > >I'm looking for information on P4 motherboards and chipsets for Woody? [snip] > Well, I don't know about motherboards, but as for chipsets-- avoid any > and all SiS chips. I

Re: Motherboards

2002-09-18 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Mon, 09 Sep 2002 19:32:27 -0400 Vikki Roemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff Whitman wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I'm looking for information on P4 motherboards and chipsets for > >Woody? > > > >Please share any succe

Re: Motherboards

2002-09-10 Thread Jeff
Jeff Whitman, 2002-Sep-10 17:29 -0400: > Thanks JC, > > Are you suggesting avoiding Woody, the VIA chipset, or the Soyo P4VDA mother > board? > > Jeff Sorry...I could try to be clear :-) . My suggestion is to avoid the VIA chipset, which I plan to do on my next MB purchase. However, nate giv

RE: Motherboards

2002-09-10 Thread nate
Jeff Whitman said: > Thanks JC, > > Are you suggesting avoiding Woody, the VIA chipset, or the Soyo P4VDA > mother board? VIA chipsets are pretty similar as far as their problems are concerned. most of my experience comes from the P3-class VIA chipsets, of which I avoid the onboard sound(disabled

RE: Motherboards

2002-09-10 Thread Jeff Whitman
Thanks JC, Are you suggesting avoiding Woody, the VIA chipset, or the Soyo P4VDA mother board? Jeff -Original Message- From: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 12:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Motherboards Jeff Whitman, 2002-Sep-09 18:54

Re: Motherboards

2002-09-10 Thread Jeff
Jeff Whitman, 2002-Sep-09 18:54 -0400: > Hello, > > I'm looking for information on P4 motherboards and chipsets for Woody? > > Please share any success or failure information. > > Thanks, > > Jeff Hey Jeff, I've only have one P4 MB and it has the VIA

Re: Motherboards

2002-09-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 07:32:27PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Jeff Whitman wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I'm looking for information on P4 motherboards and chipsets for Woody? > > > >Please share any success or failure information. > > > >Than

Re: Motherboards

2002-09-09 Thread Vikki Roemer
Jeff Whitman wrote: >Hello, > >I'm looking for information on P4 motherboards and chipsets for Woody? > >Please share any success or failure information. > >Thanks, > >Jeff > > > > Well, I don't know about motherboards, but as for chipsets-- a

Motherboards

2002-09-09 Thread Jeff Whitman
Hello, I'm looking for information on P4 motherboards and chipsets for Woody? Please share any success or failure information. Thanks, Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux and legacy-free motherboards

2002-06-07 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Mark Roach wrote on Thu Jun 06, 2002 um 05:22:24PM: > The only time I have to worry about the usbkbd and usbmouse modules is > when I have usb-uhgci loaded. Otherwise, my PC emulates PS/2 devices for > both. That is why you can also boot to dos if you feel so inclined. YOUR PC. There is

Re: Linux and legacy-free motherboards

2002-06-07 Thread Joris
> Hmmm, could someone then point me to an URL where i could obtain a > 2.4-enabled-iso image ? If Debian doesn't do the trick i'm about to be > forced to move away from it. The question is then, what distro. Gentoo, > Suse, Redhat, Slackware ... I'll post back how this experience worked > out. you

Re: Linux and legacy-free motherboards

2002-06-07 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hmmm, could someone then point me to an URL where i could obtain a 2.4-enabled-iso image ? If Debian doesn't do the trick i'm about to be forced to move away from it. The question is then, what distro. Gentoo, Suse, Redhat, Slackware ... I'll post back how this experience worked out. regards, jor

Re: Linux and legacy-free motherboards

2002-06-07 Thread Steve Haslam
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:26:43AM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Thursday 06 June 2002 13:56, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > I've recently purchased a spanking Athlon motherboard (Abit AT7Max) > > wich is to be installed with Linux, preferably Debian. > > > > Who can tell me if it's possible to insta

Re: Linux and legacy-free motherboards

2002-06-07 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 06 June 2002 13:56, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > I've recently purchased a spanking Athlon motherboard (Abit AT7Max) > wich is to be installed with Linux, preferably Debian. > > Who can tell me if it's possible to install Debian on a system wich > can only handle usb keyboards/mouse from sc

Re: Linux and legacy-free motherboards

2002-06-06 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 15:02, Jeff wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson, 2002-Jun-06 10:35 -0500: > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:56:22PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > > > | I've recently purchased a spanking Athlon motherboard (Abit AT7Max) wich > > | is to be installed with Linux, preferably Debian.

Re: Linux and legacy-free motherboards

2002-06-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote on Thu Jun 06, 2002 um 10:35:03AM: > You're best bet would be to try the bf2.4 installer. Since it's a 2.4 > kernel it might have the USB stuff included (I haven't checked). As modules, and the modules are loaded when USB conroller is present. The only weak

Re: Linux and legacy-free motherboards

2002-06-06 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:02:18PM -0700, Jeff wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson, 2002-Jun-06 10:35 -0500: | > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:56:22PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: | > | Who can tell me if it's possible to install Debian on a system wich can | > | only handle usb keyboards/mouse from scra

Re: knoppix; was Re: Linux and legacy-free motherboards

2002-06-06 Thread Jeff
Dave Price, 2002-Jun-06 14:15 -0600: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:02:18PM -0700, Jeff wrote: > I > > recently booted a brand spanking new Toshiba Satellite 5105-S607 that > > is "legacy free", which means the keyboard and mouse-pad are on the > > USB bus, using the Knoppix CD which is based on the

knoppix; was Re: Linux and legacy-free motherboards

2002-06-06 Thread Dave Price
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:02:18PM -0700, Jeff wrote: I > recently booted a brand spanking new Toshiba Satellite 5105-S607 that > is "legacy free", which means the keyboard and mouse-pad are on the > USB bus, using the Knoppix CD which is based on the 2.4.18 kernel and > loads KDE. It loaded fine,

Re: Linux and legacy-free motherboards

2002-06-06 Thread Jeff
Derrick 'dman' Hudson, 2002-Jun-06 10:35 -0500: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:56:22PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > | I've recently purchased a spanking Athlon motherboard (Abit AT7Max) wich > | is to be installed with Linux, preferably Debian. > | > | Who can tell me if it's possible to insta

Re: Linux and legacy-free motherboards

2002-06-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:56:22PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > // Please reply-to-all, i'm not on the list for now // > > > Hello communitycontributors, > > I've recently purchased a spanking Athlon motherboard (Abit AT7Max) wich > is to be installed with Linux, preferably Debian. > > Who c

Re: Linux and legacy-free motherboards

2002-06-06 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:56:22PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: | I've recently purchased a spanking Athlon motherboard (Abit AT7Max) wich | is to be installed with Linux, preferably Debian. | | Who can tell me if it's possible to install Debian on a system wich can | only handle usb keyboards/m

Linux and legacy-free motherboards

2002-06-06 Thread Joris Lambrecht
// Please reply-to-all, i'm not on the list for now // Hello communitycontributors, I've recently purchased a spanking Athlon motherboard (Abit AT7Max) wich is to be installed with Linux, preferably Debian. Who can tell me if it's possible to install Debian on a system wich can only handle usb

Re: Dual Athlon/AMD760 MPX based motherboards?

2002-02-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Shyamal" == Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shyamal> Hi, Shyamal> I would appreciate feedback from anyone using an AMD760 Shyamal> MPX based motherboard (Athlon SMP, like the Tyan Tiger Shyamal> MPX or ASUS A7MV266-D). In particular, does the USB port Shyamal>

Re: Dual Athlon/AMD760 MPX based motherboards?

2002-02-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya 2.4.16/17 kernels seems to be okay with iwill and supermicro and msi ( amd-based ) motherboards ( all 266 FSB ) the usb stuff also works on intel ca810, few other odds and ends motherboards too that we have... usb stuff == ( keyboard and mouse ) - be sure to

Dual Athlon/AMD760 MPX based motherboards?

2002-02-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Hi, I would appreciate feedback from anyone using an AMD760 MPX based motherboard (Athlon SMP, like the Tyan Tiger MPX or ASUS A7MV266-D). In particular, does the USB port work? I read that a bug results in no working USB, and that Asus and Tyan both might be bundling USB PCI cards. If that is th

SB pci 128 & jetway motherboards

2001-08-18 Thread Wayne Sitton
I Just solved a sound problem with My Desktop. I purchased a SB PCI 128 and after installing it, I could play CD's, but the sound was very low, and when I played wav's, etc. I got alot of distortion and whistleing. At first I thought I got a bad card. It turns out that Jetway mo

Re: Motherboards

2001-07-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 09:08:06AM -0400, Wayne wrote: > Infoltel is offering a Soyo motherboard with a Athlon 900 MHz processor and > and a PCI sound card for $169. plus shipping. WTF is "Infoltel"? If you're going to quote prices a URL is handy so the rest of us can check it out ... -- Nathan

Re: Motherboards

2001-07-22 Thread Wayne
Infoltel is offering a Soyo motherboard with a Athlon 900 MHz processor and and a PCI sound card for $169. plus shipping. Wayne D-Man wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:34:23PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > | Hi, > | > | I want a new machine, and for fun and education I am going to build it >

Re: Motherboards

2001-07-21 Thread Dan Berdine
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:34:23PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > I want a new machine, and for fun and education I am going to build > it from scratch. I have pretty much decided on an Athlon 1.2GHz. I > will run a small partition with Windows Me on it, but it will > predominantly be up in

Re: Motherboards

2001-07-21 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:34:23PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: | Hi, | | I want a new machine, and for fun and education I am going to build it | from scratch. I have pretty much decided on an Athlon 1.2GHz. I will run | a small partition with Windows Me on it, but it will predominantly be up |

Re: Motherboards

2001-07-21 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Keith O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want a new machine, and for fun and education I am going to build it >>from scratch. I have pretty much decided on an Athlon 1.2GHz. I will run >a small partition with Windows Me on it, but it will predominantly be up >in Debian. >

Re: Motherboards

2001-07-21 Thread Michael Perry
and > > for on-board sound. > > I've yet to hear any bad stories about motherboards for athlon > cpus with chipsets from amd. personally, I've not had any problems > with motherboards with via chipsets, but there are some rumors > out there about stability problems wh

Re: Motherboards

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:34:23PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > I thought I would consult here as to the motherboard that will give the > least compatibility problems with the various chip sets available and > for on-board sound. I've yet to hear any bad stories about moth

Motherboards

2001-07-21 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I want a new machine, and for fun and education I am going to build it from scratch. I have pretty much decided on an Athlon 1.2GHz. I will run a small partition with Windows Me on it, but it will predominantly be up in Debian. I thought I would consult here as to the motherboard that will gi

Re: Hardware question - motherboards

2001-02-15 Thread Richard Taylor
> From: Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> The s1834 >> is a little faster and uses the via apollo pro133a chipset. The >> s1832 uses the intel 440bx chipset. > >I just ordered an 1834 for a box at work. I looked around for a while >and it seemed the best choice for what I wanted to do. I'm

Re: Hardware question - motherboards

2001-02-15 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 15 February 2001 09:43, Lewis, James M. wrote: > I have to upgrade and need comments on motherboards. The two I am > considering > most are the tyan tiger 133 (S1834) and the tyan tiger 100 (S1832). > The s1834 > is a little faster and uses the via apollo pro133

RE: Hardware question - motherboards

2001-02-15 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> In a first pass, the 1834 was cheaper than the 1832 by $10 or so. My main > concern is the via chipset. Do you have the optional isa slot? On my 1832, I have the an isa sound card (who needs anything more, okay so it'a pain to configure), and an isa modem. Both work just fine. Brooks

RE: Hardware question - motherboards

2001-02-15 Thread Wil Reichert
> I have to upgrade and need comments on motherboards. The two I am > considering > most are the tyan tiger 133 (S1834) and the tyan tiger 100 (S1832). The > s1834 > is a little faster and uses the via apollo pro133a chipset. The > s1832 uses > the intel 440bx chipset. >

Re: Hardware question - motherboards

2001-02-15 Thread Pascal Hos
that might interest you http://www.694d.com Good luck, Pascal Hos On Thursday 15 February 2001 09:43, Lewis, James M. wrote: > I have to upgrade and need comments on motherboards. The two I am > considering > most are the tyan tiger 133 (S1834) and the tyan tiger 100 (S1832). The > s183

RE: Hardware question - motherboards

2001-02-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
TED] > > Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 9:43 AM > > To: debian-user (E-mail) > > Subject: Hardware question - motherboards > > > > > > > > I have to upgrade and need comments on motherboards. The two I am > > considering > > most are the tya

RE: Hardware question - motherboards

2001-02-15 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
ubject: Hardware question - motherboards > > > > I have to upgrade and need comments on motherboards. The two I am > considering > most are the tyan tiger 133 (S1834) and the tyan tiger 100 (S1832). The > s1834 > is a little faster and uses the via apollo pro133a chipset. Th

Hardware question - motherboards

2001-02-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
I have to upgrade and need comments on motherboards. The two I am considering most are the tyan tiger 133 (S1834) and the tyan tiger 100 (S1832). The s1834 is a little faster and uses the via apollo pro133a chipset. The s1832 uses the intel 440bx chipset. Any pros/cons welcome as well as

RAID port on SCSI-chiped motherboards

2001-02-12 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hay all! Basically, I'm in the process of setting up an entry-level server and need some info on the various raid options supported in Debian. I'm thinking about using a supermicro dual PIII 440GX board which has a built in SCSI chipset with support for a RAID port. The adaptec pages for the RAID

Re: SMP Machines and motherboards

2000-12-01 Thread Karl E. Jørgensen
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 11:50:05PM +0100, scr wrote: > SMP route? To do something fast and cheap? You are clearly > not looking at other architectures than x86? > > Well, a dual PowerPC (G4 Mac, do those units run well under > Debian?) is *way* cheaper than a dual ev67 Alpha machine ... Perhaps I'

Re: SMP Machines and motherboards

2000-12-01 Thread scr
"Karl E. Jørgensen" schrieb: > > I'm considering building my own box - and with lower-spec processors being > a *lot* cheaper, I figure that I can get better value for money by going > the SMP route. > > So where do I find out what motherboards/chipsets/CPUs s

SMP Machines and motherboards

2000-12-01 Thread Karl E. Jørgensen
I'm considering building my own box - and with lower-spec processors being a *lot* cheaper, I figure that I can get better value for money by going the SMP route. So where do I find out what motherboards/chipsets/CPUs support SMP? Any pointers in the right direction will be gr

Re: motherboards

2000-08-14 Thread Felix Natter
Goeman Stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now, I am only running Windows98 on it (at home). I haven't come to > the point of installing Linux on the PC. I have not even decided which > Linux distro I should take. At work I am running Debian (potato) and > I am getting to like it a lot ... > >

Re: Recommendations on newer motherboards working with Debian?

2000-08-02 Thread André Dahlqvist
B v2 is expected to be supported on motherboards? When it is I'm ready to update this old machine:-) -- // André

motherboards

2000-08-02 Thread Goeman Stefan
Hello, I read the mails concerning the Abit motherboard. Now, I have a question of my own. Recently, Intel had some problems with their CA810 motherboards. Therefor, I had to wait longer for my new PC since they have my (and probably everybody else also) a new VC820 motherboard (with RDRAM

Re: Recommendations on newer motherboards working with Debian?

2000-08-01 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Only thing I know about the Abit is the poorer memory performance due to its having some TI buffer chip built into the system. I went with the Asus K7V and haven't looked back. I have Not explored optimizing the HD, though, so can't address that issue. The only thing I missed was having an ISA

Re: Recommendations on newer motherboards working with Debian?

2000-08-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
my personal opinion is abit blows but that is from my own bad experiences with the IT5H and BP6. if you want athlon i would wait for asus's new board A7V, many reviewers seem to agree that it has the best features. it should be out anytime.. nate On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Rogerio Brito wrote: rbrito

Recommendations on newer motherboards working with Debian?

2000-08-01 Thread Rogerio Brito
Dear Friends, My ole, trustworthy computer seems to be having problems lately (its got some problems with the video card -- it's freezing while I'm in X and I'm starting to doubt that the memory chips are ok -- and its battery is dead). :-( So, I'

S3 cards and LX motherboards (was Re: Xproblem - modelines?)

2000-04-25 Thread Dan Halbert
; S3 & linux), I found that various S3-based cards don't work properly with XFree86 and LX-based motherboards. This problem -may- be fixed in XFree86 4.0. Some claim that the alpha-quality S3 server in XF86_SVGA works, but it did not work for me. I have one LX machine that my S3 card

RE: DFI motherboards

1999-08-21 Thread shadow
and I run one or 2 distributed net clients all the time. The power supply is a generic with single fan and I never put any grease on the Pentium 233mmx chip when I snapped the fan on. On 20-Aug-99 Jon Hughes wrote: > Has anyone had experience with DFI motherboards (P2XBL) with Linux? I'm

Re: DFI motherboards

1999-08-20 Thread Greg Vence
I just purchased one but its a P6??? board. I'll be loading Debian on it this weekend... It's got an AMD K6-III 450 MHz chip. L8r -- Greg Jon Hughes wrote: > > Has anyone had experience with DFI motherboards (P2XBL) with Linux? I'm > considering purchasing one and am looking for opinions. >

DFI motherboards

1999-08-20 Thread Jon Hughes
Has anyone had experience with DFI motherboards (P2XBL) with Linux? I'm considering purchasing one and am looking for opinions. Thanks Jon

Re: Asking for recomendations of AGP-motherboards

1998-09-05 Thread Ken Westerback
You might try http://www.tomshardware.com. This site specializes in various hardware reviews, including motherboards. They currently have several articles about AGP. They even have recommendations - but do not in my experience mention Linux so be carefull! Ken Phillip Neumann wrote

Asking for recomendations of AGP-motherboards

1998-09-04 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi, I want to chage my video card to the matrox millenium g200 8 mb. I understand it is APG, so i need to change my motherboard and cpu too. (i have a 200mmx). The problem is that i dont know very much about computing, and dont know what motherboard to get. I need: 1) compatibility with my comp