El vie, 11 feb 2000, escribiste:
> 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).
I was only saying that the chipset was not the guilty and that hardware
problems with Athlons are usually related with power supplys (and memory).
> 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.
Of course, but::
"To ensure reliable operation of AMD Athlon[tm] Processor-based systems, an
AMD-recommended 250W or larger ATX 2.01 power supply is required for the
majority of system configurations. Recommendations are based on the ability of
a supply to provide the power sequencing and current requirements of AMD
Athlon systems. The current supplied on the +5VDC power rail as well as the
combined current supplied by the +5-VDC and +3.3-VDC power rails has been
tested on the supplies listed below."
And there is NOT a 220W ATX power supply in that list
(http://www1.amd.com/athlon/power). I am not saying that power supply is the
source of your problems (in fact, I had not read your original message so I
didnt' know what problems were :-)), but that a lot of problems many people are
having are related with power supplys. And these problems are not so simple as
"it doesn't turn on". For example, one of our first systems with a 220W ATX
apparently worked well with Windows 98, but when we installed Windows NT
motherboard seemed to crash!!!.
> 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).
Sorry, I can't help you with your motherboard because I have not put my
hands in one. I hope you can solve your problems.
Greetings.
