From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267219AbUBMVDl (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:03:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267215AbUBMVCp (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:02:45 -0500 Received: from sun.barak.net.il ([212.150.48.119]:24995 "EHLO sun.barak-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267214AbUBMVCV (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:02:21 -0500 From: aviv bergman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: is nForce2 good choice under Linux? Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 23:01:45 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <402D3448.7080105@reactivated.net> In-Reply-To: <402D3448.7080105@reactivated.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200402132301.45324.bergmana@barak-online.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 13 February 2004 22:32, Daniel Drake wrote: > I have been perfectly happy with my NF7-S, except from the one time it > failed on me (didn't boot up), and I had to get it replaced. I think there > is a general risk involved in buying nforce2 boards, their rate of failure > is fairly high. Still, the benefits are nice. the shuttle FN41 (sn41g2 xpc) is probably safe - i had very frequent lockups after upgrading to 2.6.0, flashed to the latest bios, and the system is rock stable since (2.6.1 w/apic) you better check if the specific board you are going to buy has a fixed bios. aviv