Re: VIA chipset

[Anders Peter Fugmann]

I've got a A7M266 (1.33 Ghz, 133 Mhz fb), and all works perfectly:
ATA100 + DMA + K7/3DNOW optimization.

No craches yet (run for about 2 month).
I'm very satisfied with this mobo - IMHO it's a good buy.

Regards
Anders Fugmann

Marco Colombo wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Jussi Laako wrote:
> 
> 
>>Marco Colombo wrote:
>>
>>>Sorry to bother you again with this issue, Alan... by 'AMD chipsets'
>>>you mean BOTH north and south bridges (eg. 761 + 766) or does it include
>>>also AMD NB + VIA SB combo?
>>>AMD 761 + VIA 686B based MBs are quite common this days: are they "safe"
>>>(do you have failure reports)?
>>>
>>At least my ASUS A7M266 works very well. It has AMD 761 nb and VIA 686B sb
>>and the 686B is used only for IDE and IO interfaces. PCI bus comes from the
>>761, AFAIK.
>>
>> - Jussi Laako
>>
>>
> 
> Thanks for your answer! Can you please confirm me that both the ATA/100
> controller (at ATA/66 or ATA/100 speed) and Athlon optimized kernels work?
> 
> .TM.
>