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 > > > > > > > > > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list