Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Tyan Motherboards

[Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk>]

On Thursday 03 May 2007 01:47:12 Duncan wrote:

> Anyway, I made the right decision, as Gentoo/amd64 MSI users have seen
> more problems (as reported here) than Tyan users, which have seemed pretty
> happy with their purchases, from what has been reported here anyway.

You may be referring to me here, so I'll just close the story by saying that 
AFAIR I had no real problems with dual Opteron 246s on my MSI K8T Master2 
FAR board (my memory is getting to be notorious, though :-) . The BIOS 
lacked some settings in memory timing etc, but I would probably have left 
them alone anyway.

Eventually, after three years of 24hr BOINC number-crunching, it seemed to 
develop some memory timing problem of its own - at least, it wouldn't boot 
with its usual 4 GB, not even back at the system builder's. So I got them 
to put in a new board, which is a Supermicro H8DCE. That was last 
Christmas. My only complaint with this board is its poor documentation of 
BIOS settings. The manual is not much more than the superficial 
plug-this-in-here-and-that-in-there variety. I've had to do quite a bit of 
experimenting to find what various things do, and I'm still not confident 
that I've found the best arrangement.

Anyway, it seems to be working ok.

-- 
Rgds
Peter Humphrey
Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93
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