On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 17:16 +0000, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > After disabling the Dual Channel feature everything runs out > of the box.
On EPoX 8KDA3J, two DIMMs don't work reliably when placed into slot #2 + #3 (but work great in slot #0 + #1). That's a problem known to EPoX. Don't know if it has any relevance to this Dual Channel issue. > > This Motherboard has lots of extra features that you may not need > > (in fact I guess I don't either) like dual Raid, 2 on-board LAN > > chips (10/100 & 10/100/1000) > > NVidia Gbit? Are you using the forcedeth driver? I used forcedeth on two NVidia NForce3-based boards (Gigabyte K8NS and EPOX 8KDA3J) flawlessly. The only issue I've got with it - is that it doesn't allow configuring a custom MAC address (ifconfig eth0 hwaddr ...) but I think that's fixed in the latest kernels. In short, my NForce3 boards require the following drivers to operate: - sata_nv (SATA Controller) - forcedeth (Ethernet Controller) - snd_intel8x0 (Sound) All came with stock kernel (and were supported out-of-the-box on Fedora Core 3 and higher). > and even a Dual BIOS. You won't be saying that when you'll be holding a board with a failed BIOS upgrade... > > In any case, go for a 939 pin board (not 754) since this will allow future > > upgrapes of the CPU. > > Definitely ;-) I'm not much of a believer in CPU upgrades. Keep in mind the board costs much less than a new CPU, and once its time to upgrade the CPU, you might want some more components up to shape (e.g. RAM with some new technology) and the board is the carrier of all those... If anything, the benefit of a 939 board is a PCI Express slot (instead of AGP), in case you want a decent graphics card. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
