Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 10:11:14 -0800 From: "Kulraj Gurm (bosa.ca account)" <kulraj@bosa.ca> To: <uid0@catastrophe.net>, <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Don't you hate it when ISPs go out of business? Message-ID: <001101c0b556$fad2ae60$64c8a8c0@asknet.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.31L2.0103251038360.28744-100000@jedi.catastrophe.net>
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Most motherboards these days will give you the choice in BIOS to disable keyboard seek at boot. Just get confirmation of this before you buy. Having a monitor attached to boot is never necessary. You have several choices, depending on, if you plan to (or are being forced to) use a 2U rack mount chassis - some ISP's demand it. AMD is my preferred solution, here are some makeworld 4.2-Stable times (in house test) : Duron 700 - 66min Pentium III 700 - 65min Athlon Enhanced 700 - 55min I find this interesting and not because the Athlon blows away the PIII, but because the Duron came so close! Duron is dirt cheap and Athlon is still cheaper than PIII with way higher performance. If you have to use a rackmount 2U or below, then use these motherboards : 1. Any Intel 815 chipset - stable board for PIII and has onboard video, since 2U's have PCI riser cards the onboard VGA is a god send. 2. Via KM133 chipset based motherboard, Microstar makes one that I like but there must be many others - again it has onboard video. If your ISP is making no chassis demands, ie you can use a 4U or a conventional case, then although the above are still valid choices, a whole spectrum is open to you. I use a Gigabyte 7ZX Rev 5 with an Athlon 800. We sell this board for Can$179 so you should be able to pick it up for under US$120 from you local mom'n pop shop. Slap in a Duron 800 and you have a good cheap solution. Hope this helps! Kulraj Gurm www.microbiz.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <uid0@catastrophe.net> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 8:41 AM Subject: Don't you hate it when ISPs go out of business? > Hello folks - > > Well, my current ISP is going out of business. I was planning on moving > to a new colo and a new set of hardware this month anyways, but am now > under the gun. > > What is a good, cheap, motherboard that can boot w/o a console attached > to it? I'm willing to spend about 140-170 on a motherboard at this > point, and will upgrade as needed later. The processor is either going > to be an AMD or Pentium. I'll be looking at 256-512 MB of RAM > > All I need is 2 PCI slots. > > thanks. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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