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Re: RH5.1 & Motherboard Upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joerg Mertin)
Fri Oct 23 02:30:41 1998
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:18:33 +0200
From: Joerg Mertin <smurphy@dspecialists.de>
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In-Reply-To: <FB6136448AC6D1119D970000F81FAE1653A72F@zrchb201.us.nortel.com>; from Jason Gibson on Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 09:54:59AM -0400
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On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 09:54:59AM -0400, Jason Gibson wrote:
> 1. Many seem to be happy with the FIC503+ motherboard, are there any other
> Super7 boards that are widely used? What about the Epox boards?
In Fact, there is one I´m using on several Machines. Try out the
DFI P5BV3+ (The "+") is important. Runs Fast. If you only want DIMM
Socket, go for a Rev. B Board, if you have some PS/2 Simms you want to
Use, take the Rev. A Board, but in this case you wont be able to use
100MHz Memory Bus access. The Rev. A Board has 2xPS/2 and 2xDIMM. If only
Dimm´s are used, you can of course use 100MHz Memory Bus speed :)
>
> 2. Are there any precautions I should take when upgrading my MB?
Well, for Windows95 to recognise the Chipset, you have to inster different
Patches (Install it, make it reboot and It´ll crash -> Boot in Secure
mode, and install the Patches, and it continues).
LiNUX made no Problems so far. I even have 70MBytes Buffer Cache reads
with "hdparm -T" using a AMD K6-2 300MHz and a 128MB Dimm.
Regards
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