From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267293AbUBNAhE (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:37:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267296AbUBNAhE (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:37:04 -0500 Received: from fed1mtao05.cox.net ([68.6.19.126]:21758 "EHLO fed1mtao05.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267293AbUBNAhB (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:37:01 -0500 Message-ID: <402D6DAE.7010905@antitux.net> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:37:02 -0700 From: John Dee User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: aviv bergman CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: is nForce2 good choice under Linux? References: <402D3448.7080105@reactivated.net> <200402132301.45324.bergmana@barak-online.net> In-Reply-To: <200402132301.45324.bergmana@barak-online.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have a shuttle FN41G2. It works well for my needs. have an extra ethernet card handy, though, because without the forcedeth patch, you won't have ethernet. aviv bergman wrote: | On Friday 13 February 2004 22:32, Daniel Drake wrote: | |>I have been perfectly happy with my NF7-S, except from the one time it |>failed on me (didn't boot up), and I had to get it replaced. I think there |>is a general risk involved in buying nforce2 boards, their rate of failure |>is fairly high. Still, the benefits are nice. | | | the shuttle FN41 (sn41g2 xpc) is probably safe - i had very frequent lockups | after upgrading to 2.6.0, flashed to the latest bios, and the system is rock | stable since (2.6.1 w/apic) | | you better check if the specific board you are going to buy has a fixed bios. | | aviv | - | To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in | the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org | More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html | Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFALW2thf6hBevzxKARAoofAJwInRCuqxdCu0567X2PVonTjeMzMwCeOfBJ wuyv2bXTbFw2DISWiiSSGZQ= =1RaN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----