On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote:
>
> > Greetings everyone,
> >
> > What are the current good motherboards for FreeBSD for the pentium
> > II and III? I know on the Pentium, it was the ASUS board but for the
> > PII/PIII, is the Abit the better board? Also, I was wondering what is the
> > fastest Celeron chip that can be overclocked to run at 100Mhz FSB? Does
> > it matter if it's Slot 1 or PPGA based? Thanks.
>
> I know a lot of people like the ASUS P2B boards, but I've noticed a
> tendency for the systems to reset occasionally when plugging in a keyboard.
> I've seen this with both FreeBSD and NT, so I'm considering it a property
> of the board.
I haven't seen anyone use a ASUS PII board but it seems like
everyone is using ABIT boards for some reason for FreeBSD. I have a ASUS
XP55T2P4 w/P233MMX on it and 128 megs of ram and while it works fine in
FreeBSD... It seems to act weird in Windows95. I have some EIDE Mode 3
and mode 2 drives in the system and with the BIOS setting of PIO mode
Auto, it works fine until I added the Maxtor Mode 4 HDD. This is when
defining everything as auto would start up win95 half way and say things
are corrupted so I had to manually set it to mode 3, 3, 2, 2 before
things worked. And then the funny thing is that even with the 400Watt PC
Power & Cooling Power Supply, in Win95, at certain times, when I click on
something, it's like the machine did a hard reset.... Seems like the
board works better with FreeBSD than Win95.
> I've had great results with the Tyan 1836DLUAN/Thunder 100's.
> I've got several boxes with 1GB of RAM and dual 450's humming along. For
> comparison one system with less memory and a SuperMicro board but identical
> system software has had a couple of wierd spontaneous reboots over the last
> few months.
Cool... Is 1GB of ram really needed? We used to run a 64 meg
system then 128 meg and then 384 meg, it doesn't seem to do much even for
a heavily loaded ISP Server.
Cheers,
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