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SubjectRe: GA-7VRXP is a bad motherboard [was Re: PDC20276 Linux driver]
Ruth Ivimey-Cook (Ruth.Ivimey-Cook@ivimey.org) wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 November 2002 21:13, Priit Laes wrote:
> > Bryan O'Sullivan (bos@serpentine.com) wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 08:53, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
> > > The GA-7VRXP is a known bad motherboard. It has a bad electrical
> > > interface to the AGP slot, so if you're using an AGP graphics card
> > > without falling back to PCI access, you are pretty much guaranteed
> > > system hangs or crashes after some time, depending on load.
> ....
> > The 1.1 version of this board would sometimes work and sometimes not
> > work. Odds are better of getting a functioning board, but if you have
> ....
> > I've(www.thetechboard.com) already tested the 2.0 version of the board with
>
> FWIW, I have the v1.1 GA-7VRXP using an Athlon XP 1800+ CPU and a GeForce3
> Ti200, and all has so far been well. Don't know if I'm just lucky. No CPU
> freq or voltage tweaks applied AFAICR.
>
> The 20276 has been working fine controlling 2 of 4 disks of a software-RAID
> (i.e. md, not ataraid) volume. No problems so far, other than a driver clash
> with an older Promise board: the BIOS for the MB wouldn't run with the old
> card enabled. Fixed by swapping the old board out.
>
Maybe you are the lucky one, who has rev 2.0 board... ;)
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