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From: Ruth Ivimey-Cook <Ruth.Ivimey-Cook@ivimey.org>
To: Priit Laes <amd@tt.ee>, Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GA-7VRXP is a bad motherboard [was Re: PDC20276 Linux driver]
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:06:19 +0000
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On Tuesday 12 November 2002 21:13, Priit Laes wrote:
> Bryan O'Sullivan (bos@serpentine.com) wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 08:53, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
> > The GA-7VRXP is a known bad motherboard.  It has a bad electrical
> > interface to the AGP slot, so if you're using an AGP graphics card
> > without falling back to PCI access, you are pretty much guaranteed
> > system hangs or crashes after some time, depending on load.
....
> The 1.1 version of this board would sometimes work and sometimes not
> work. Odds are better of getting a functioning board, but if you have
....
> I've(www.thetechboard.com) already tested the 2.0 version of the board with 

FWIW, I have the v1.1 GA-7VRXP using an Athlon XP 1800+ CPU and a GeForce3 
Ti200, and all has so far been well. Don't know if I'm just lucky. No CPU 
freq or voltage tweaks applied AFAICR.

The 20276 has been working fine controlling 2 of 4 disks of a software-RAID 
(i.e.  md, not ataraid) volume. No problems so far, other than a driver clash 
with an older Promise board: the BIOS for the MB wouldn't run with the old 
card enabled. Fixed by swapping the old board out.

Ruth 

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Ruth Ivimey-Cook
Software Engineer and Technical Author.
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