Motherboard recommendation?

[William O'Higgins]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 12:42:33AM -0500, Jason Shein wrote:
>If you want cheap workstations, and full Linux compatibility, then I use the
>ECS L7VMM3 comes with an AMD 1600xp on board. non-upgradeable cpu ( soldered
>on ) but it has a AGP slot and 2x PCI

I just bought one of these, so I cannot attest to their reliability, but
it is pretty quiet.  Interestingly,  I am not sure that the 2800A+
processor is detected, though that may be a kernel issue.  Here is what 
dmesg says about the chip:

Detected 1400.078 MHz processor.
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000, vendor = 2
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP-M 1600+ stepping 01

The onboard LAN didn't work on installation, and I am not using the
sound or video cards, so that's no help.  It was cheap though - $229 for
256 megs of DDR RAM, the motherboard, and a case with a 350W
powersupply; Sonnam computers.
-- 

yours,

William

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