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[David]

I've been using an nForce M79G-1394 for a couple of days as the basis 
for a second machine.

It seems OK :)

It's running 2.6.4 and has APIC enabled with no problems so far.

The onboard TV adaptor works but I had to make up my own header cable to 
get S-video output.
(I chopped the firewire header in half and joined it inline to a chopped 
s-video cable)
I have used the Nvidia kernel modules which crashed once but then all 
was OK.

(Unfortunately for my 2.6 update guide I ended up using my original disk 
after duping it so it wasn't even a vaguely clean install.)

David
PS I'm using Antec's 'piano black' cases
The Overture is quiet but not silent. The Minuet is very quiet.
Both are nicely engineered and look great.
The black is a really glossy paint on a steel chassis - it does look 
pretty good and bear in mind these are sub-£100 cases including quiet 
PSUs. The Overture even came with an Antec polishing cloth ;)


Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

>On Tuesday 06 April 2004 14:56, bishop wrote:
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>>Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
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>>>On Tuesday 06 April 2004 04:55, Axel Thimm wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Unfortunately my ALi chipset based PC dies on it, like it did with
>>>>the bttv some time ago [ALi magik 1 chipset PCI bus latency bug
>>>>:(], so I'll have to upgrade some components to be able to use it.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>I feel your pain.  I've had to learn the hard way which chipsets to
>>>avoid.  A few years ago I learned to stay away from VIA chipsets
>>>when I got a VIA-based mobo that could only cache 128MB of RAM.  It
>>>took me a long time to figure out why my PC was noticeably slower
>>>after upgrading to 256MB or RAM -- the cache got disabled because
>>>it couldn't handle that much RAM.
>>>
>>>My next mobo (I ended up frying that one), which is in my Myth box
>>>now, has an ALi chipset.  I have 60GB of unusable space on my new
>>>Seagate 200GB HD because the broken ALi IDE chipset won't support
>>>      
>>>
>>>>137GB, even though I flashed the BIOS with an update that was
>>>>        
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>>>supposed to enable that support.
>>>
>>>I think from now on I'm going to stick with nForce, IBM or Intel.
>>>      
>>>
>>JAC,
>>
>>Doesn't nForce also have the DMA issues of the Via set?
>>
>>I could swear that I saw a recent nForce issue here that smelled like
>>the classic kt133 DMA issue.
>>
>>It may be the cheap drugs talking (caffeine, sugar, etc).
>>
>>  - bish
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>
>Hmmm... the only nForce issues I'm aware of are the APIC issue and the 
>fact that for certain features you need 3rd-party or binary drivers, 
>and these issues are more in the realm of Linux support rather than 
>buggy (or poorly designed) hardware.
>
>-JAC
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