Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (148 mails)

[Edwin Heath <Edwin.Heath@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Black, Alain wrote:
> I have had similar issues with Shuttle only providing updates for the
> BIOS of their latest and greatest machines.
>  
It puts me off buying another one of their systems, which is a shame as 
their idea of nice looking small but powerful systems is a good one. 
Though the small size has given me a nightmare trying to balance heat, 
noise and reasonable graphics.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edwin Heath [mailto:Edwin.Heath@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 3:27 AM
> To: suse-amd64@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] what is best 64 bit motherboard
>
> I have a Shuttle SN85G4v2 barebones which worked OKish with 9.1 and 9.2 
> if I booted with acpi=off.
> with 9.3 even this didn't work (it refused to boot) with acpi enabled, 
> the system degraded to unusable in 2 days.
> I've given up on this board as being truly 64bit and gone back to 32bit 
> 9.3 which works fine.
> I suspect the bios is dodgy.
>
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