I've had reports of problems with this chipset and AGP cards. The machines 
seem to freeze. Putting in a PCI video card solved the problem.

On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Petr Kubecka wrote:

> I would not dispute the speed of super IDE controller- it is hardly an issue
> on laptop, where seek time of drive is 20ms and sustained tranfer rate
> reaches 20 MB/s at its best even with the latest IBM drives. I did not
> notice any slowdown.
> Perhaps it is just a different meaning of words. To me if you can load and
> run RH7.3 on a 845 chipset then it works. The other issue is that since
> there is no direct support for 845 it runs slow. Is there anything in
> particular that you come across in the discussion forums related to the
> above chipset, which could potentially lead to unstable\unreliable system?
> 
> My apologies, ASUS is not really off stream, although the experience of the
> past makes me to stick with Intel made boards, which are not really the
> fastest but we get them for the same price as any other brands and they did
> not dissapoint us so far.
> 
> Take it easy- Petr
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Thomas Kiblin
> Sent: 02 July 2002 17:58
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: AW: 7.2 or 7.3 support for Intel 845G
> 
> 
> At 01:56 PM 7/2/2002 +0100, you wrote:
> >My resolution is that on reasonably standard motherboards there should be
> no
> >problem with 845 chipsets when using RH7.3, however the ones off the
> >mainstream may have some glitches that should be overcome when the full 845
> >support becomes available.
> >
> >
> >Hope it helps,
> >
> >Petr Kubecka
> 
> 7.3 DOES NOT work on 845G chipsets, there are problems with the Super I/O
> controller.  It loads and runs, but performance on the IDE chipset is
> terrible, around 2.8Mbs at best.
> 
> Plus some other issue with the PCI bus that Alan and others discussed on
> the kernel mailing lists, and pointed to the vendor having to make a BIOS
> upgrade available to fix the issue.
> 
> I wouldn't call the ASUS p4b533 motherboards off mainstream, the 845G on
> the Intel board doesn't work either, same issues.
> 
> Tom
> 
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