----- Original Message ----- From: "et" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 12:25 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Anybody using Soyo SY-P4S-645DX DRAGON Ultra MB?
> On Wednesday 21 August 2002 11:26 am, you wrote: > > I'm thinking about a new system, and at the moment I'm leaning towards > > the Soyo SY-P4S-645DX DRAGON Ultra motherboard. The chipset is > > SiS 645DX with a SiS 961B "southbridge". The Mandrake "hardware > > compatibility" database doesn't have these listed either way. > > > > The MB does have ATA/133 "RAID", but I'm not really interested in using > > that. (I've seen the postings about problems with that part.) > > > > To go with this MB, I'm thinking about a P4 at 2.23GHz with 533MHz FSB, > > 1GB of PC2700 DDR RAM, a 7200 RPM ATA/133 disk, a 128 MB ATI All-in- > > Wonder 8500DV video card, and an NFREN 18.1" NF-1800MAP LCD monitor. > > (Yeah, I know, both the video card and monitor have TV tuners. :-) > > Should be noticably faster than the 233 MHz MMX box I'm writing this > > on. :-) > > > > Anyway, I'd like to know if anyone has booted the above mentioned MB > > (or chipset) under either Mandrake 8.1 or 8.2? (What kernel did you > > use?) > > > > Clark > last I heard, ATI 8500 cards do not have XFree support (but it is comming, > and it works in Frame Buffer well, but no 3d) and Win9x ain't booting with > that much ram (I know, you did not ask about dual booting) sometimes the very > bleeding edge hardware does not have the support you might wish for when > configuring it. also, you don't mention who made the hard drive and how big > it will be. (both very important). > I.ve just seen a reference to ATI support for Radeon 8500 on linux, you may wish to check out this link http://mirror.ati.com/support/products/pc/radeon8500/linux/radeon8500linuxdr ivers.html?cboOS=LinuxXFree86&cboProducts=RADEON+8500&cmdNext=GO%21 Regards petew ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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