Re: [OT] Suitable Athlon Motherboard for Linux

Catalin BOIE
2001-07-05T07:01:24Z

On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Joseph Mathewson wrote:

> Having heard the various horror stories about the VIA PCI data corruption
> bugs, and watching one Via based machine destroy itself with a Mandrake 8.0
> 2.4.3, I was just wondering if anyone had a suggestion for an Athlon
> motherboard that works reliably under Linux (I don't think all the issues
> have been cleared up in the kernel yet?). There must be quite a few Linux
> Athlon users out there - what boards are you using and with what success?
>
> I can't see much alternative to Via chipsets in the Ahtlon market, other
> than all-in-one-graphics-sound-network jobbies that, from previous
> experience (namely the i810), are also best avoided.
>
> Joe.

Hi!

I have an EPOX 8kta2 (www.eopx.com) and I'm very pleased with it. No
lookups since I buy it! I use a Thunderbird @ 650MHz.

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