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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000608120330.nicole@unixgirl.com> from "Nicole Harrington." at "Jun 8, 2000 12:03:30 pm"
To: nicole@unixgirl.com (Nicole Harrington.)
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 21:57:42 +0200 (CEST)
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It seems Nicole Harrington. wrote:
> 
> On 08-Jun-00 Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > I'm considering buying an Athlon based machine. Before shelling out the
> > $ (well, fl ) I'd like to know what experiences have with Athlon and
> > FreeBSD. And obviously which mom boards to prefer or keep away from.
> > 
> > Thks
> > Wilko
> 
>  I have good experiences so far with the Athlon stuff. However (sad to say)
> avoid the Asus MB if you need to reboot without a keyboard attached.

What ? I have no probs whatsoever with my K7M doing that...

>  So far I like the FIC and Aopen boards.

Dont _ever_ buy FIC, there are no ends of trouble with them....

-Søren


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