Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 15:50:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> To: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907221544000.331-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907221122200.2544-100000@thneed.ubergeeks.com>
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On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > Greetings everyone, > > > > What are the current good motherboards for FreeBSD for the pentium > > II and III? I know on the Pentium, it was the ASUS board but for the > > PII/PIII, is the Abit the better board? Also, I was wondering what is the > > fastest Celeron chip that can be overclocked to run at 100Mhz FSB? Does > > it matter if it's Slot 1 or PPGA based? Thanks. > > I know a lot of people like the ASUS P2B boards, but I've noticed a > tendency for the systems to reset occasionally when plugging in a keyboard. > I've seen this with both FreeBSD and NT, so I'm considering it a property > of the board. I haven't seen anyone use a ASUS PII board but it seems like everyone is using ABIT boards for some reason for FreeBSD. I have a ASUS XP55T2P4 w/P233MMX on it and 128 megs of ram and while it works fine in FreeBSD... It seems to act weird in Windows95. I have some EIDE Mode 3 and mode 2 drives in the system and with the BIOS setting of PIO mode Auto, it works fine until I added the Maxtor Mode 4 HDD. This is when defining everything as auto would start up win95 half way and say things are corrupted so I had to manually set it to mode 3, 3, 2, 2 before things worked. And then the funny thing is that even with the 400Watt PC Power & Cooling Power Supply, in Win95, at certain times, when I click on something, it's like the machine did a hard reset.... Seems like the board works better with FreeBSD than Win95. > I've had great results with the Tyan 1836DLUAN/Thunder 100's. > I've got several boxes with 1GB of RAM and dual 450's humming along. For > comparison one system with less memory and a SuperMicro board but identical > system software has had a couple of wierd spontaneous reboots over the last > few months. Cool... Is 1GB of ram really needed? We used to run a 64 meg system then 128 meg and then 384 meg, it doesn't seem to do much even for a heavily loaded ISP Server. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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