One comment here I sell computers for a living. Here is some
free advice stay away from the via chip set. It even causes
problems with windows. I had to learn the hard way. Even under
windows there are unexplainable problems but they are the same
every time. Also they disappear as soon as I use for instance an
asus mb which uses the other chip set. And thanks for this post
because I was just getting ready to get rid of my fic mb in my
personal computer and this explains why I'm having trouble with
a few things
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > > What's your chipset and CPU? What amount of RAM?
> >
> > AMD K6-2 450 MHz, 128 MB RAM, VIA chipset...
> >
>
> VIA again! Mamma mia!
>
> > > Have you compiled in APM support? If yes, does the kernel boot if you
> > > remove it?
> >
> > Funny, that was never a problem before, but I'll try it out...
> >
> > Greets and btw. thanks for the fast response
>
> np :) But I'd really like to sort out that VIA chipset stuff. All the
> people I know who have such a chipset on their motherboard have had
> problems (from massive disk corruption to "kernel wont boot"-style
> problems).
>
> Re: APM, and related (again!) to VIA, I know a guy with a K6-2 CPU and
> a VIA chipset as well who has had disk corruption problems, but on power
> off the kernel would just oops...
>
> Ban VIA!
>
> --
> fg
>
> # rm *;o
> o: command not found
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