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Date:      Thu, 07 Jun 2001 22:11:55 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org>
To:        Jan Conrad <conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de>
Cc:        Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au>, questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ASUS A7V mobo 
Message-ID:  <200106080311.f583Btx04125@grumpy.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Jan Conrad <conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de>  of "Thu, 07 Jun 2001 14:07:12 %2B0200." <20010607140420.V10440-100000@merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de> 

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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
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