Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 12:24:37 +0100 From: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> To: Borja Marcos <borjamar@sarenet.es> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gigabyte Athlon motherboard Message-ID: <4.1.20000111121925.00c61b50@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> In-Reply-To: <387A000A.486C6423@sarenet.es> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001100747450.18042-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
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At 16:51 10.01.00 +0100, you wrote: >Rick Hamell wrote: >> >> I've exerienced about an 8% loss on these motherboards due to >> minor power surges alone, not to mention a multitude of small problems. I >> highly suggest you go with Soltek or Asus, both work great under FreeBSD >> and Windows if now problems. > > Minor power surges? Loss? Do you mean *broken* boards? > > Here in Spain it can be quite difficult to buy an Athlon >Asus board... most dealers only carry the most frequently sold items. > Hi! Well, german mag c't just tested some cases /power supplies, also regarding the Athlon boards. Some power supplies were _very_ sensible to minor power surges, like they happen some times a day, because regulation circuits of the housing/power plant let some additional power spike through... And some boards happen to react more sensible than others. c't mentioned, that in testing the 5 actual mainboards in November (issue 24), the Gigabyte died all of a sudden. but the replacement, they got from Gigabyte, worked absolutely stable. Regards Olaf Hoyer -------- Olaf Hoyer www.nightfire.de mailto:Olaf.Hoyer@nightfire.de FreeBSD- The power to serve ICQ:22838075 Liebe und Hass sind nicht blind, aber geblendet vom Feuer, dass sie selber mit sich tragen. (Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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