Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:20:25 +0300 From: Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee> To: j3 <j3@allied.org> Cc: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, Bill Maniatty <maniattb@cs.rpi.edu>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Processor Motherboards Message-ID: <19990728112025.A74699@myhakas.matti.ee> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990727163928.008230d0@broken.ne.mediaone.net>; from j3 on Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 04:39:28PM -0400 References: <199907271824.OAA65142@cs.rpi.edu> <Pine.NEB.3.96.990727151552.5827B-100000@shell-1.enteract.c om> <3.0.6.32.19990727163928.008230d0@broken.ne.mediaone.net>
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On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 04:39:28PM -0400, j3 <j3@allied.org> wrote: > >> 1) Do people have specific recommendations about boards to buy/don't buy? > > I would reccomend against the Tyan Thunder 100. Call it bad luck, but > through no fault of my own (misuse, trauma, etc) my SIXTH board in a year > is arriving tomorrow. I have had 2 bad PS/2 Keyboard Ports, a failed PS/2 > mouse port, a bad SCSI controller, and most recently a bad IDE controller. > Perhaps my reseller just got a bad batch, but this has been insane. Yes, exactly same for Thunder 100. Three boards subsequently failed within one year for me, all had same failure, one of the processor current stabilizator smoked. They can call it bad luck or whatever but it must be some design fault. I think so because machines were different, one had two PII 400 processors and the other one PII 450, this is nothing to do with processors, the speed of processors and power supplies. I refused to get the fourth and spent some money for newer Thunderbolt as slightly more expensive replacement. I hope the newer model has better design, unfortunately I have no alternative to Tyan boards because here are no other resellers which sell SMP boards. Of course here are other resellers which claim they sell but as far as I tried they all have great purvey problems. -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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