Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:36:26 -0800 (PST) From: ThinkDifferently <Jeremy@FutureCIS.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Vetting motherboard Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H for FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <21077464.post@talk.nabble.com>
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I'm currently looking for an ATX motherboard that supports the AM2+ socket, Phenom Quad-Core processor, 4 DDR2 RAM slots (800 MHz is fine), 6 SATA ports with RAID, and Gigabit LAN. Onboard VGA would be nice. It needs to work well with FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE, using a 2-disk SATA RAID1. I'm currently looking at the Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H. Has anyone successfully operated 7.0 on this board? Any booting issues? Did you need to modify the ISO to get it to boot (if so how)? Did RAID work? Did it require a special driver to be loaded (if so how)? Do any other motherboards fit the bill, given the specifications I give above? I recently got a black eye &-( with the MSI K9N2G Neo-FD, using the GeForce 8200 (MCP78) chipset. FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE and CentOS 5.2 wouldn't even boot on it, no matter what the BIOS config was. Also, Vista wouldn't even recognize the SATA disks, even if the SATA ports were in IDE, RAID or AHCI modes (it requires a driver, even if you aren't doing RAID). Also, I do not need HTPC quality video and sound from this thing. I know the mobo I mentioned has HTPC written all over it, but it's the base qualities (processor, chipset, SATA, etc.) that really count. All I need is basic VGA, and some stereo sound wouldn't be too bad. I don't really care if accelerated video or theater-quality sound output was bad or flaky. I'm going to operate it as a server and plug it into a VGA KVM that has a max resolution of 1024x768. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Vetting-motherboard-Gigabyte-GA-MA78G-DS3H-for-FreeBSD-7.0-RELEASE-tp21077464p21077464.html Sent from the freebsd-hardware mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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