Re: Dual athlon support?

From: Gregory Maxwell (greg@linuxpower.cx)
Date: Thu Aug 03 2000 - 07:34:54 EST


On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Dan Hollis wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Mike Frisch wrote:
> > > Let's just hope if ABit makes a dual board, it's better than the godawful
> > > BP6...
> > For that audience, the BP6 is a great product. The frequency of it's
> > crashes is but noise in constant stream of crashes of your typical
> > consumer OS.
>
> BP6 is great as long as you forget about the broken onboard HPT366...

There are a non-trivial number of people having lockups on this board when
using the BX ide controlers.

It seems to mostly affect people using X.

The boards APIC also reports a stream of crc errors, not a sign of a well
built product.

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