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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 09:32:38 +0200
From: Priit Laes <amd@tt.ee>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ruth Ivimey-Cook <Ruth.Ivimey-Cook@ivimey.org>
Subject: Re: GA-7VRXP is a bad motherboard [was Re: PDC20276 Linux driver]
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Ruth Ivimey-Cook (Ruth.Ivimey-Cook@ivimey.org) wrote:
> 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.
> 
Maybe you are the lucky one, who has rev 2.0 board... ;)
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