Re: AMD 64 3400+ processor - OT - Linux Chipsets

["Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@ieee.org>]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Paul Nicholas McCubbins wrote:
> It was VIA's MVP3 chipset on their super 7 boards that got them the bad
> reputation (anyone remember the Windows chipset patch of the week?)
> I personally have owned nothing but Intel (except my laptop) since the
> FIC VA-503+.
 
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 10:04, Sean Jewett wrote:
> Well, IIRC, there was a problem with Win95 that was M$'s fault on that 
> mobo, the problem did not exist under Win98.  

Actually, the early mVP3 had bugs in both the north (memory) and
southbridge (peripheral/ATA) that showed up under both Windows and
Linux.  Latter revisions fixed the issues.

I know, I had both Epox and FIC boards with a latter mVP3.


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Bryan J. Smith                                    b.j.smith@ieee.org 
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