If you are buying a board at a "good deal", just be sure you pay less
than the $160 US I paid for my EPox KP6-BS. This board IS a BX board and
it runs perfectly in SMP under Redhat 6.p distribution. It also runs NT
without any problems that I have seen in the few times I have booted NT.
Jason Sogolow wrote:
> Hello (again after years) list,
>
> Finally the oppurtunity has arisen (I think)for me to build an smp
> machine.
> My pc shop has on clearance the Tyan Thunder 2 atx, S1696DLUA.
> What do you have to say about this board? Are there any nasty issues
> with
> it?
> Or is it really cheap because it is LX and that 333Mhz PII is the
> fastest I can run w/ it, correct? Does Tyan have any recent bios
> upgrades
> for it, and are they necessary?
> Question 2:
> If at this late stage, when I go to by my pair of 333's,
> are there any steppings to avoid, or should I just try to get the last
> one,
> db0? Or just as long as they are both the same step?
>
> Question 3:
>
> Not that I expect anyone on this list to know this, but are there any
> issues
> with NT w/ this hardware? (yeah, yeah, OK ALREADY, I know, me bad...)
>
> ... and maybe just fill me in on anything else related.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason.
>
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