Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 16:59:14 +0100 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: Dwight Tuinstra <tuinstra@clarkson.edu> Cc: chad@DCFinc.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VIA chip set Message-ID: <20000706165913.B74206@irrelevant.org> In-Reply-To: <3964AA7A.7D632BC3@clarkson.edu>; from tuinstra@clarkson.edu on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 11:49:14AM -0400 References: <200007052211.PAA29251@freeway.dcfinc.com> <3964AA7A.7D632BC3@clarkson.edu>
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On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 11:49:14AM -0400, Dwight Tuinstra wrote: > "Chad R. Larson" wrote: > > > > Anyone veto the FIC MoBo? > > > > I can't comment on the SD11 motherboard, but I can > tell you I've had trouble with the FIC PA-2013. It > generates hardware errors (10 and 11) when attempting > to make world while using default (or even conservative) > BIOS settings. The power supply was from PC Power & > Cooling, so no problem there. The only way I could get > through an entire buildworld was to turn off every > go-fast option I could in the BIOS, including the L2 > cache. I was able to get away with turning back on the > RAM banking, but that was it. Feh. I won't be buying > any more FICs if I can help it. > > On a second PA-2013 I bought, I can turn on a few more > go-fast options, but it's still mighty conservative. Sorry to disagree, but I have exactly the same motherboard and the only problems I've had with it were windows related, mainly the bios detecting a UDMA/66 drive on it's IDE channels which causes windows to hang on startup and which was fixed by a bios update, and also I had random crashes under windows when the mem speeds were set to turbo, I turned it down and even Windows is now happy, no crashes from FreeBSD at all (apart from me not being able to get 4.0-RELEASE to install on the ATA66 drive which was prob due to the bios problem too. -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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