Reply 20 of 29, by luckybob
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That SCSI cable origami makes me moist. I love it when anyone builds a dualie.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
That SCSI cable origami makes me moist. I love it when anyone builds a dualie.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
wrote:That SCSI cable origami makes me moist. I love it when anyone builds a dualie.
Even if it contains a VIA?
Plan your life wisely, you'll be dead before you know it.
I presume you mean the chipset. I have nothing against VIA. Would I have picked it for myself? Not likely; and don't think of that as a criticism! Just because I personally gravitate to the extreme end of the workstation dual-cpu boards has no bearing here.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Yeah, was referring to the chipset. I like the VIA 266T on the right board though. A dual VIA CPU would be something. Too bad the Nehemiah didn't support SMP; I know VIA was considering it at some point.
Plan your life wisely, you'll be dead before you know it.
mmm The VIA distaste is warranted though. They did make a couple stable bug free chipsets though. I'd expect this is one of them.
Ironically one of the worst if not the worst /buggyest chipset they made is the most popular for retro gaming MVP3.
wrote:mmm The VIA distaste is warranted though. They did make a couple stable bug free chipsets though. I'd expect this is one of them.
Ironically one of the worst if not the worst /buggyest chipset they made is the most popular for retro gaming MVP3.
Wasn't the MVP3 OK if you avoided using any AGP features - meaning, you used a Voodoo, or stuck with PCI graphics? And used the proper VIA 4-in-1 driver ?
Plan your life wisely, you'll be dead before you know it.
they also have ATA data corruption bug via int 13, most notable when using promise pci IDE cards, and unstable USB. On top of that of course once you insert a AMD CPU in it, then you inherit all the AMD bugs like incomplete MMX implementation.
Oh no! That's what I'm using in my MVP3. Is there a means to quickly check for this corruption bug? I have a Promise Ultra133 in mine with a Cyrix MII. You'd think it would have exploded by now.
Plan your life wisely, you'll be dead before you know it.
it may depend on south bridge revision, and promise card type. I know promise 100 version not the 133 has the bug. I think the 133 is made by marvell, while the 100 is in house I could be wrong.
also don't for get SB live PCI bug. KT266 contains a hardware bug which causes system instability when using the AGP slot at the specified max capacity of 4×