I can attest to the fact that Slot A thunderbirds do exist. I own 3 of them (one 900 and 2 700 MHz). I guess I was fortunate that my Slot A thuderbirds worked properly (all running FreeBSD) in the MBs (MSI and Abit) that I have, though I have also heard that problems exist with some MBs Bob On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:39:27PM -0800, Bernhard Beck wrote: > According to an article published in c't 14/2000, page 32 (online at > http://www.heise.de/ct/00/14/032/default.shtml, use Altavista's > Babelfish to translate), Slot A Thunderbirds do exist. In a nutshell > among other things AMD slightly changed the bus interface design on the > Thunderbirds so that you need chipsets like VIA KT133, KM133 or AMD 760. > But under certain conditions the Thunderbird can also work with a KX133 > or the Irongate chipset. > There is a nice table at the end of the article listing a few Slot A > motherboards and if they worked or not with the two sample Slot A > Thunderbirds c't had available in their lab at that time. > Michael's Asus K7M with Irongate chipset is listed as working with the > exact same BIOS version. ... snip ... -- Bob Willcox The reason we come up with new versions is not to [EMAIL PROTECTED] fix bugs. It's absolutely not. Austin, TX -- Bill Gates To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
