Motherboard recommendation?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:06:51AM -0500, William O'Higgins wrote:
> 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.

Make sure the front side bus speed is set correctly (should be 166DDR
(333 effective) for that CPU.  If set to 100 or 133 it will detect as a
slower speed, and be slower of course).  Probably a BIOS setting,
although it could be a jumper on the board.

Lennart Sorensen
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