FreeBSD Crashes with AMD

[David O'Brien]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:18:14AM -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
> About the only Athlon
> XP motherboards that I've found that support ECC use the AMD-761
> chipset. Unfortunately these don't support the newer Athlon XPs and they
> seem to be disappearing from the market.  They ones that are left are
> really inexpensive, though.  The Gigabyte GA7-DX+ I bought about a year
> or so ago was very reasonably priced at the time and performs well.  My
> suspicion is that the recent lack of ECC support may be due to AMD
> wanting to move "serious" users over to their new 64 bit architecture.

No, the problem is AMD isn't updating the 761 chipset to do 333 or 400
FSB -- thus few want to use that chip set today.  AMD is not presureing
VIA, ALI, nVidia, etc... to not produce ECC supporting motherboards.