From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 7 20:13: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-76-217.knology.net [24.214.76.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8782937B405 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:13:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f583Btx04125; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 22:11:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200106080311.f583Btx04125@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Jan Conrad Cc: Brian Astill , questions Subject: Re: ASUS A7V mobo In-Reply-To: Message from Jan Conrad of "Thu, 07 Jun 2001 14:07:12 +0200." <20010607140420.V10440-100000@merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 22:11:55 -0500 From: David Kelly Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jan Conrad writes: > Hi, > > we have several A7Vs here at our institute running at 900MHz. > > It had given us headaches over headaches. > Over 1GHz the boards are reported to loose data, both on IDE and SCSI > > The shared interrupts are broken!! > > The board is a total failure for production systems You shouldn't be using a MB which does not support parity memory in production systems anyhow. My A7V was the roughest MB I've ever run FreeBSD on. Most all that cleared up once I remembered to set "PnP OS" to "off" in the BIOS setup. Also the is a BIOS parameter in the printed manual which says it auto defaults to "enabled" for the Athlon but "disabled" for the Duron and does something with PCI 2.1 or 2.2 compatibility. "Disabled" falls back the PCI standard one place. I had to disable that to keep my system running with my old PCI cards. Have mentioned the exact parameter before in these lists, circa late December 2000 to January 2001. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message