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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!news.cse.psu.edu!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!netnews.upenn.edu!jake.esu.edu!crooow.wcupa.edu!gypsy.wcupa.edu!pschwenk From: pschwenk@gypsy.wcupa.edu (Peter Schwenk) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Data corruption on an ASUS P/I-P55TP4N motherboard Date: 12 May 1996 22:42:33 GMT Organization: West Chester University of Pennsylvania Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4n5pgp$6ko@crooow.wcupa.edu> References: <4mvvst$5jf@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gypsy.wcupa.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I run FreeBSD on a P/I-P54TP4 which has the same chipset, "Triton", without trouble. Beyond that, I don't have much to say. Dan Strick (dan@math.berkeley.edu) wrote: : Immediately after installing FreeBSD on a modern pentium PC, I became : afflicted with core dumping programs and apparent file system damage. : Then I discovered that repeated "fsck -n" produced variable results, : sometimes showing no file system damage at all. : I am currently experimenting with turning off the motherboard cache : to see if the problem goes away, but results are so far inconclusive : since the problem is intermittent. : Is anyone familiar with the ASUS P/I-P55TP4N motherboard and its : foibles? The manual says, "This motherboard features Intel's : 430FX PCI chipsets with I/O subsystems." Are these chipsets known : to have problems? What are my options? : Thanks for any information you can provide. : Dan Strick : dan@math.berkeley.edu -- - Peter Schwenk, Academic Computing, West Chester University of Pennsylvania - pschwenk@wcupa.edu - "I am not an official spokesperson for West Chester University." - P.S.