On Thursday 30 August 2001 08:17 pm, Darryl Okahata wrote:
> "Juha Saarinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It's probably not the Athlon CPU that's the issue for either FreeBSD or
> > Linux, but the motherboard chip sets. From personal experience, the
> > first Linux 2.4 kernels weren't very happy with VIA chip sets, which are
> > commonly used for Athlon boards. It's mainly IDE issues (e.g.
> > UDMA-66/100 support).
>
> Yeah. As long as you avoid motherboards with the VIA KT133A/KT133
> chipset and the VIA 686B Southbridge, you're probably fine (not all such
> motherboards supposedly have problems, but how do you tell the
> difference?). For more info, check out:
>
> http://www.au-ja.de/review-kt133a-1-en.html
Funny, but I've had one of those for a few months with no problems at all.
Then again, I don't have one of those piece of crap SoundBlaster Live!
cards they mention in my system either....
Mike
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