Re: MB suggestions?

[JakeCatfox@aol.com]

I personally like the AOpen MK-33. It's only an Athlon 1ghz max board, but 
AOpen has some boards that will sport an Athlon past 1200mhz easily. It ran 
FreeBSD and NetBSD just fine, but I have not yet been able to get it working 
with my Hauppauge WinTV USB device in Windows 98 first edition. I'm going to 
put Debian on it and try it with the Linux driver though.

Good luck,
Deven "AMD! AMD!" Gallo



In a message dated 7/27/01 2:11:08 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
liste_joerg@gmx.de writes:

<< Matti Airas wrote:
 > 
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I just upgraded my desktop motherboard and processor to ASUS A7A266
 > (ALi MaGiK 1) and Athlon 1200 MHz. However, it seems I didn't do my
 > background research well enough - ALi MaGiK won't play together with
 > my BT878-based Hauppauge TV tuner card. The computer hangs completely
 > always when I try to launch XawTV. However, I probably will still be
 > able to exchange the MB to another model.
 > 
 > What should the new motherboard (or more specifically, the chipset)
 > be? The criteria for me are:
 > 
 > - supports Athlon 1200 MHz with 266 MHz FSB
 > - supports SDR SDRAM
 > - supports my Hauppauge WinTV PCI TV tuner card (bt878-chip)
 > - works flawlessly with Linux (of course)
 > - is stable
 > - gives most bang for the buck (of course)
 > 
 > The store I've been using seems to carry mostly VIA KT133 -based
 > boards. Would getting one be a horrible mistake? How about the ones
 > with an integrated Promise RAID controller? They would give a relative
 > abundance of IDE channels, but would it be worth it?
 > 
 > I've been eyeing on an Asus A7V133 WA or Abit KT7A-100 Raid. Would
 > they do the job?
 > 
 > Any advice or opinions would be welcome.
 > 
 > Best regards,
 > 
 > --
 > Matti Airas >>