Motherboard Recomendation

[Michael DeMan]

We settled on Tyan 2518GR boards last summer and they run smooth.

Dual-CPU PIII, two on Board Intel 100Mbit NICs (fxp), on-board IDE RAID0,
fit in 1U chassis.

We also have other machines based on SuperMicro boards which I have never
had a problem with over several years.

On 5/9/03 10:56 PM, "Tom Samplonius" <tom at sdf.com> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 9 May 2003, Alvin Gunkel wrote:
> 
>> Great, that's what I get for editing the first draft!  The system has an
>> Athlon XP 1900 processor in it, so the new motherboard would need to
>> support that.
>> 
>> Alvin
> 
> 
> Well, get a ASUS or Tyan motherboard.  ASUS has a nice one based on the
> NVIDIA chipset (nForce2?).  Try to find something that can use ECC memory.
> Your RAM could be bad, and your motherboard is fine, but since you aren't
> using ECC, you wouldn't know.
> 
> Riser cards are quite a problem too.  I would try to get as much stuff
> on-board as possible.  Riser card problems cause all sorts of random
> problems like corrupted video, and page faults.
> 
> 
> Tom
> 
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