In the immortal words of Seth Mos (knuffie@xxxxxxxxx):
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> Ahh, I sea that it has a via chipset onboard. Include warning neon sign <here>
Argh, I was afraid that was going to be the answer. Sigh.
Unfortunatly, if you want to run a socket-A athlon system (which is by
a long yard the best bang-for-buck solution out there), there really
aren't too many alternatives at the moment. AMD makes their own
chipsets, but they're basically only doing so under duress, and they
have a tendency to pull them from the market the moment anybody else
starts shipping in quantity.
> I suggest getting your newest bios and try to build and install a newer
> kernel. The newer kernels have better handling of the via chipset.
Okay, BIOS update is easy. New kernel might be a bit harder, as all
of the xfs patches on sgi's ftp site are for 2.4.2/2.4.3 -- can they
be cleanly applied to 2.4.5?
> I'm gonna wait for a nVIDIA nForce mainboard, yummi :P
Heh, that'll probably be my next upgrade, but that's still a good six
months out...
-n
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