I've used both a Tyan S2892 and Supermicro H8SSL and H8DA8, the Tyan board had a number of weird BIOS issues - some times it would boot, reset the BIOS 5 times wave a dead chicken over it and then it would work. The only similar issues I've run into with the Supermicro boards was with the onboard Adaptec SCSI and an LSI MegaRAID on the H8DA8 and another MegaRAID in a Supermicro P4SCT, resetting the BIOS and disabling the onboard Adaptec SCSI via jumper resolved or moving the MegaRAID resolved these issues. After working with the S2892 and several older Tyan dual P3 and dual Athlon boards, my option of them is: quirky.
Dustin Lundquist Darrin Chandler wrote: > Ok, I've got it narrowed down a bit. Anyone have experiences good or bad > to report with Tyan versus Supermicro mobos? I find archives for people > using one or the other, so they both seem workable. Anyone used both and > prefer one for some reason? I'm looking at 2xCPU, and maybe dual-core in > addition. > > Any help *greatly* appreciated!
