From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 12 14: 5:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DF761509A for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:05:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from akane (ppp109.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.109]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA12897; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:00:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:45:41 -0700 () From: Rick Hamell To: "Booth, Christopher" Cc: "'freebsd'" Subject: Re: Motherboard/CPU Query In-Reply-To: <199907121700.NAA10182@interlock.mgh.com> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@dsinw.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Is anyone out there running FreeBSD with an Alton 748 PII/III SVGA/Sound/56k > modem (i.e., the video, sound, and modem cards are built in) motherboard and > an Intel Celeron 333a CPU? > > If so, have you any caveats? Do not under any circumstances ever, ever, ever run a motherboard with everything built in. You have cheap hardware that is barely supported by the manufacturers even under Windwos, poor (usually) quality control, and it's hard to upgrade single pieces. Especially if one thing goes bad. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message