RE: [MLUG] Athlon motherboards

[F Vernon Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I am running an Abit KT7A mobo and it runs very well own Linux. I will
testify though that this board does not like any uncertified RAM, if your
RAM is not certified for use on the board, due to the double speed bus, it
will not work well and it will have problems.

I have one though and I love it, the fastest computer I have ever used, in
fact it run circles around those Dell GX240 1.7 GIG P4's we have at work.



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Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 8:44 PM
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Subject: Re: [MLUG] Athlon motherboards


CMOS is what i meant, sorry.  Yes, i do reset it manually by setting the
jumper on pins 2-3.  I've just learned after messing with this motherboard
that patience is required to reset the cmos.  I had a k7ama motherboard
that i sold because i couldn't get it to boot...if i would have known the
clear_cmos_for_infinity trick, it would have worked probably.  I don't
know what's wrong with these boards, but there's something definitely
quirky.  I've joked sometimes that i'll put a switch on the front of my
case to clear the cmos instead of moving the jumper.



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 Aaron Littich
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On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Igor Izyumin Jr. wrote:

> On Sunday 13 January 2002 21:21, Aaron Littich wrote:
> > I have a k7s5a motherboard from ECS.  I want to get rid of the fsckin
> > thing, it ticks me off immensely.  I was wondering if anyone here has
any
> > recommendations for athlon motherboards, mainly whether they are fully
> > supported under linux and are stable. I'm looking for something fairly
> > cheap, and it doesn't have to have raid.
> Well, I would NOT recommend Abit.  Their boards are not terribly reliable,
> from what I gather (most of the Abit boards I owned had problems).
Although
> Linux will run on them just fine (it's amazingly stable on bad hardware),
> they have general glitches, such as memory problems.  I heard that Asus
> boards are the most reliable ones, although I have no idea if it's
actually
> true, as I never owned one.
>
> > This k7s5a board will run linux, but the problem with it is that
whenever
> > i change *any* hardware in/out, i have to clear the flash memory.  This
> > includes plugging/unplugging a hard drive/cdrom/pci network card/sound
> > card/SCSI card.  And it doesn't just clear within 5 or 10 seconds, it
> > takes 10 MINUTES or more.  It's not a bad battery, its just a quirky
> > motherboard.  And this is not an isolated problem, if you look at the
> > forums on ecs's website, you'll see alot of people with the same
problem.
> Try setting "Force Update ESCD" and possibly the "Plug and Play OS"
> parameters differently.  Forced updates will clear the PNP stuff
> unconditionally, and it should not take 10 minutes.  BTW, it has nothing
to
> do with flash, it's the CMOS memory that is screwed up.  It definitely
should
> not take that long to clear it - maybe use the jumper to clear it
manually?
>
> > Other than the flash bios deal, the motherboard runs very well.  I've
> > gotten everything to work, except for the onboard functions (which are
> > shit anyways) in linux.
> Maybe try to fix the flash deal?
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