Asus P4S800D-E Deluxe

[Doug Poland]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 05:55:27PM +0100, Shaun Friedle wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Does anyone know how well this motherboard works under FreeBSD 5.2.1? 
>
For the most part, it works good. 

> I currently have an Asus P4C800 Deluxe which is okay - until I turn off
> ACPI and then I get a "Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while is
> kernel mode" while booting. I need to be able to turn off ACPI as the
> nvidia driver doesn't work with it on.
> 
> The P4S800D-E Deluxe is very similar is features to the P4C800 Deluxe
> and I want to make sure that it doesn't suffer from the same problem
> before I buy it. 
>
Sorry, it does suffer the same problem.  I've got an nVidia 5700
that's running the XFree86 nv driver because of this issue.

> I don't think it should as from what I've read the problem is with
> the Intel 845/865/875 chipsets, whereas the P4S800D-E Deluxe uses
> the SiS 655TX chipset.
>
FWIW, the -E board has a better NIC (Intel based, using em driver) and
the RAID support is great using the Promise PDC20378 SATA150 controller
for FreeBSD.  I use the Intel ICH5R RAID for Windows RAID support.

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Regards,
Doug