Athalon Motherboard Question

Athalon Motherboard Question

[Edward Muller]

Slightly off topic ... but I couldn't think of a better place to ask, or
at least not one with more knowledgable people on the subject.

I'm looking to upgrade my Motherboard.

So I'm wondering which Athlon/XP motherboard you guys would use? I know
there were (or are?) problems with some of the VIA chipsets and most of
the Athlon MoBos seem to use some VIA chipset.

Anyway. Suggestions welcome.

Thanks,
EAM

Re: Athalon Motherboard Question

[Joseph Mathewson]

In message "Athalon Motherboard Question", <Edward Muller> wrote:

> Slightly off topic ... but I couldn't think of a better place to ask, or
> at least not one with more knowledgable people on the subject.
>
> I'm looking to upgrade my Motherboard.
>
> So I'm wondering which Athlon/XP motherboard you guys would use? I know
> there were (or are?) problems with some of the VIA chipsets and most of
> the Athlon MoBos seem to use some VIA chipset.
>
> Anyway. Suggestions welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> EAM

The Athlon XP/MP SMP issues (as well as the VIA chipset issues) are becoming
quite FAQs.  It strikes me a kept-up-to-date site listing current issues that
are known/being fixed/hardware bugs/whatever would be useful.  I would be
prepared to have a go if some maintainers (/knowledgeable kernel hackers) could
give me some info, but I'm certainly not a kernel guru and would not be able to
handle troubleshooting mail from all Linux's AMD users :).

I could quite easily hack together something in PHP for listing known
working/known broken configurations (proc/mobo/?), I guess.

Thoughts/suggestions?

Joe.