Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:17:57 -0700 From: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: "Rick Hamell" <hamellr@dsinw.com>, "Booth, Christopher" <Christopher_Booth@mcgraw-hill.com> Cc: "'freebsd'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Motherboard/CPU Query Message-ID: <000501beccac$048fd990$0100fea9@NOMAD> References: <Pine.WNT.3.95.990712134335.-17551A-100000@akane>
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----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> To: Booth, Christopher <Christopher_Booth@mcgraw-hill.com> Cc: 'freebsd' <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 1:45 PM Subject: Re: Motherboard/CPU Query > > > 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. I sometimes think that is also true of on-board SCSI but there are times when an on-board scsi is handy. That is the only on-board product that I can think of that has a reason. The sound, video, and etc. certainly seem to be the bottom end of the device capability range. I don't like internal modems because you can reset them with out a reboot and a built-in modem is looked at with even greater disapproval. So, I think Rick's first sentence was phrased just about right. Kent > > > Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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