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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!netcom.net.uk!ix.netcom.com!ixnews1.ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!jlemon From: jlemon@netcom.com (Jonathan Lemon) Subject: Re: Any Experience w/ Triton II (430HX) MBoards & FreeBSD? Message-ID: <jlemonDsJ9B2.4EC@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <4p25hs$8ku@nntp5.u.washington.edu> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 15:21:02 GMT Lines: 23 Sender: jlemon@netcom22.netcom.com In article <4p25hs$8ku@nntp5.u.washington.edu>, William R. Somsky <somsky@dirac.phys.washington.edu> wrote: >I'm going to be ordering a new system for running FreeBSD (and DOS/Win >games :-) and am wondering whether I should go with a known stable >motherboard (such as the ASUS P55TP4N) and give up all memory checking, >or try one of the newer 430HX based motherboards (such as the ASUS P55T2P4 >or Tyan Tomcat I) and be able to do ECC on my RAM. (No arguments about >whether parity/ECC is worth it or not, please. I'd like it to be _my_ >choice whether to use parity/ECC or not, rather than Intel's...) > >So, has anyone had any experience w/ the new 430HX based motherboards? >Good? Bad? Indifferent? Should I go for it? Or stay away? I have an ASUS P55T2P4 with 32M of older EDO ram, amd am running 2.1R on it. The only problem I've had is that the keyboard appears to freeze up after a while when I'm running X - I've only had this for a week or so and haven't had time to track this down yet. (sc0 driver, serial mouse, #9 771 card -- the keyboard freezes, but not the mouse; I can log in via the network, kill X, and run kbd_mode to recover the keyboard - any ideas?) I'm quite happy with the board otherwise. -- Jonathan