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On Thursday 03 May 2007 01:47:12 Duncan wrote: |
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> Anyway, I made the right decision, as Gentoo/amd64 MSI users have seen |
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> more problems (as reported here) than Tyan users, which have seemed pretty |
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> happy with their purchases, from what has been reported here anyway. |
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You may be referring to me here, so I'll just close the story by saying that |
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AFAIR I had no real problems with dual Opteron 246s on my MSI K8T Master2 |
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FAR board (my memory is getting to be notorious, though :-) . The BIOS |
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lacked some settings in memory timing etc, but I would probably have left |
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them alone anyway. |
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Eventually, after three years of 24hr BOINC number-crunching, it seemed to |
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develop some memory timing problem of its own - at least, it wouldn't boot |
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with its usual 4 GB, not even back at the system builder's. So I got them |
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to put in a new board, which is a Supermicro H8DCE. That was last |
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Christmas. My only complaint with this board is its poor documentation of |
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BIOS settings. The manual is not much more than the superficial |
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plug-this-in-here-and-that-in-there variety. I've had to do quite a bit of |
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experimenting to find what various things do, and I'm still not confident |
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that I've found the best arrangement. |
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Anyway, it seems to be working ok. |
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Rgds |
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Peter Humphrey |
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Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 |
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