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Date:      Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:08:47 +0100
From:      Andreas Braukmann <braukmann@tse-online.de>
To:        hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Gigabyte Athlon motherboard
Message-ID:  <20000110150847.J86925@cage.tse-online.de>
In-Reply-To: <3879BD8F.3EB381B7@sarenet.es>; from borjamar@sarenet.es on Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 12:07:59PM %2B0100
References:  <3879BD8F.3EB381B7@sarenet.es>

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Hi,

On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 12:07:59PM +0100, Borja Marcos wrote:
> 	I'm considering a Gigabyte GA-71X with an AMD Athlon CPU.

> It will run *exclusively* FreeBSD, and the dealer has said me that
so does my new box.
GA-71X, K7-700, 256 MB PC-100 DIMM, 
Tekram 390U2W (sym0), fxp0, Matrox G400,

> they have observed stability problems with Windows.
hmmm. The K7-boards _are_ very very sensitive to memory problems.
My first two 128MByte Dimms lead to various problems at install time
(e.g. just reading garbage from the cpio-archives on the
 FreeBSD-CD-ROM).
After adjusting the memory timing parameters in the BIOS-setup
to some more conservative settings the machine ran rock-stable.

> 	Does this CPU/motherboard work well with FreeBSD? I would
> use a 500 or 700 MHz CPU.

-Andreas

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