On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 11:02:42PM -0700, Patrick Beart wrote: > The Intel 810 motherboard on one of my 1U rack-mounted > servers seems to have started to die. > [...] > The ideal candidate would allow me to SAVE the 2-128 MB > PC100/133 (Viking) RAMM chips that are already in the box. Obviously, > I need onboard video and networking (10/100 is fine). It's a server, > after all. ;-) > I don't need anything over 1 Ghz in processor power, really, > and I'm not considering any ASUS boards as I've already had troubles > with one of those.
Look at the MS-6378. Tigerdirect.com sells it for $65, it has a Socket A (good for anything from a slow Duron to a fast Athlon XP), two DIMMs (1 GB total max, 100 or 133 if your CPU can handle it, Durons can't), 3 PCI slots (that I guess you won't use), dual IDE controllers, floppy controller, PS/2 mouse and keyboard, video, audio, 10/100 LAN, parallel port, single serial, game port, and USB ports on a micro ATX-sized board. I run bootable software raid 1 on two disks, one each on the two IDE controllers and it is pretty snappy. The video is slow...but this is a server so it probably doesn't matter that Tux Racer is painful. Sound isn't happy with standard Red Hat installs, but the Knoppix CD knows how to talk to it, so it can work...but this is a server so it probably doesn't matter that MP3 playback has problems. One consideration: I had one die on me, apparently from lightening coming in an unprotected outlet (it was *sure* a loud bang that night...), which is forgivable. A collegue had one die on him from apparent over-heating (he had an XP 1900 in there producing plenty of heat over a weekend when his office air conditioning was off, but he didn't have the case closed so its system fan could not function to fullest effect), and this seems fairly reasonable. But you might want to look for more reports to be sure. I don't have my PCI slots in use, but they are nice to have. For example, when I replaced my dead board the new one had a different ethernet chip on it, one my Red Hat install didn't know about. I went to the local Microcenter, spent $10 on an ethernet card and was running. Oh, and the next time I grabbed updates from Red Hat the new onboard ethernet was recognized, so I am using the motherboard ethernet again. -kb, the Kent who is happy with his motherboard choice. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
