At 19:43 11/02/00 +0100, you wrote:
> > The problem lies in a few areas. Mostly in the fact that even though
> > the athlon is a good cpu the motherboards use a chipset that is at best
> > rough around the edges. This leads to problems. Most of which cause
>
> We have in our laboratory 10 K7 and all of them work flawless with
>Mandrake 7.0. Motherboards are Asus K7M. The main problem with K7 is power
>supply. The first K7 had a 220W power supply and it crashed after few hours.
>Then, our provider bought 250W power supplys tested by AMD (sorry, I don't
>remember the branch). Since then, no problem. AMD has in its web page a
>list of
>power supplys tested. There are also several user pages in the WWW describing
>problems with K7.
This isnt a powersupply problem, this is system does perform well but it
seems that somehow the install process has completely lost its
marbles.(faling to come up with any rpms for me to select for install).
Fic SD-11 is a bad board i killed 2 of those, and generally operating any
Athlon system on a 220W or 250W is a gamble or u have a _really_ good one.
Please other users i have tested this setup there is nothing wrong hardware
wise, all devices function propperly under wind*ws. As all the devices were
working under mandrake 7.0 V2 with the MSI-6167 (xept for the 3com509).
Regards,
Pieter
