Hi there, I bought a new pc equiped with an AMD Athlon and I just wanted to know if there's anything I need to take into account when I install Linux. There's a special bootdisk for Athlon systems on the SuSE site, am I correct? I understand that this is necessary only if an older kernel is used. Which kernel is that? I've got SuSE 6.2 (with kernel 2.2.10). Thanks, -- Yatsen Ng yatsen.ng@brunel.nl Den Haag, The Netherlands It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
I recently bought the Asus K7M (600 Mhz Athlon) and have not had any trouble, except for a stupid BIOS upgrade. I had both Win98 and linux already installed and just swapped out the motherboard. Win98 asked for a bunch of drivers, and eventually came on line, while linux booted the first time. Yatsen Ng writes:
Hi there,
I bought a new pc equiped with an AMD Athlon and I just wanted to know if there's anything I need to take into account when I install Linux. There's a special bootdisk for Athlon systems on the SuSE site, am I correct? I understand that this is necessary only if an older kernel is used. Which kernel is that? I've got SuSE 6.2 (with kernel 2.2.10).
Thanks, -- Yatsen Ng yatsen.ng@brunel.nl Den Haag, The Netherlands
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How do you like the preformance ? did you have an amd K6 ? What kind of vidio. The amd K7 keeps looking better and better. Real Tempting. At 11:02 AM 3/16/2000 -0500, Jesse Marlin wrote:
I recently bought the Asus K7M (600 Mhz Athlon) and have not had any trouble, except for a stupid BIOS upgrade. I had both Win98 and linux already installed and just swapped out the motherboard. Win98 asked for a bunch of drivers, and eventually came on line, while linux booted the first time.
Yatsen Ng writes:
Hi there,
I bought a new pc equiped with an AMD Athlon and I just wanted to know if there's anything I need to take into account when I install Linux.
There's a
special bootdisk for Athlon systems on the SuSE site, am I correct? I understand that this is necessary only if an older kernel is used. Which kernel is that? I've got SuSE 6.2 (with kernel 2.2.10).
Thanks, -- Yatsen Ng yatsen.ng@brunel.nl Den Haag, The Netherlands
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Samy Elashmawy writes:
How do you like the preformance ? did you have an amd K6 ? What kind of vidio. The amd K7 keeps looking better and better. Real Tempting.
I previously had K6-3 400, but a GeForce blew out the motherboard. I am getting great performance with the K7M, now, but I am telling you there are many concerns. If you are seriously considering, subscribe to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus and read some posts to get an idea of the problems. Among some of the highlights are memory (very particular about brands, no problems here), a 300w power supply (I am using a 250w with no problems). There are other MB manufacturers for Athlon out there. I have heard Gigabyte has a nice board, and I think Abit does too. You might want to check out www.tomshardware.com, I think he has a review of some Athlon MBs. I personally would wait for the KX133 chipset VIA will soon be shipping. (www.via.tw.com) It will support 4x AGP, and PC133 memory.
At 11:02 AM 3/16/2000 -0500, Jesse Marlin wrote:
I recently bought the Asus K7M (600 Mhz Athlon) and have not had any trouble, except for a stupid BIOS upgrade. I had both Win98 and linux already installed and just swapped out the motherboard. Win98 asked for a bunch of drivers, and eventually came on line, while linux booted the first time.
Yatsen Ng writes:
Hi there,
I bought a new pc equiped with an AMD Athlon and I just wanted to know if there's anything I need to take into account when I install Linux.
There's a
special bootdisk for Athlon systems on the SuSE site, am I correct? I understand that this is necessary only if an older kernel is used. Which kernel is that? I've got SuSE 6.2 (with kernel 2.2.10).
Thanks, -- Yatsen Ng yatsen.ng@brunel.nl Den Haag, The Netherlands
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At 12:43 PM 3/17/2000 -0500, Jesse Marlin wrote:
Samy Elashmawy writes:
How do you like the preformance ? did you have an amd K6 ? What kind of vidio. The amd K7 keeps looking better and better. Real Tempting.
I previously had K6-3 400, but a GeForce blew out the motherboard. I am getting great performance with the K7M, now, but I am telling you there are many concerns. If you are seriously considering, subscribe to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus and read some posts to get an idea of the problems. Among some of the highlights are memory (very particular about brands, no problems here), a 300w power supply (I am using a 250w with no problems). There are other MB manufacturers for Athlon out there. I have heard Gigabyte has a nice board, and I think Abit does too. You might want to check out www.tomshardware.com, I think he has a review of some Athlon MBs. I personally would wait for the KX133 chipset VIA will soon be shipping. (www.via.tw.com) It will support 4x AGP, and PC133 memory.
At 11:02 AM 3/16/2000 -0500, Jesse Marlin wrote:
I recently bought the Asus K7M (600 Mhz Athlon) and have not had any
isint that the chip set intell is realy raising a stink about , pulling them into court in three difrent countys to dispute the licencing agrement they got wwhen they bought cyrex ? trouble,
except for a stupid BIOS upgrade. I had both Win98 and linux already installed and just swapped out the motherboard. Win98 asked for a bunch of drivers, and eventually came on line, while linux booted the first time.
Yatsen Ng writes:
Hi there,
I bought a new pc equiped with an AMD Athlon and I just wanted to know if there's anything I need to take into account when I install Linux. There's a special bootdisk for Athlon systems on the SuSE site, am I correct? I understand that this is necessary only if an older kernel is used. Which kernel is that? I've got SuSE 6.2 (with kernel 2.2.10).
Thanks, -- Yatsen Ng yatsen.ng@brunel.nl Den Haag, The Netherlands
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Samy Elashmawy writes:
At 12:43 PM 3/17/2000 -0500, Jesse Marlin wrote:
Samy Elashmawy writes:
How do you like the preformance ? did you have an amd K6 ? What kind of vidio. The amd K7 keeps looking better and better. Real Tempting.
I previously had K6-3 400, but a GeForce blew out the motherboard. I am getting great performance with the K7M, now, but I am telling you there are many concerns. If you are seriously considering, subscribe to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus and read some posts to get an idea of the problems. Among some of the highlights are memory (very particular about brands, no problems here), a 300w power supply (I am using a 250w with no problems). There are other MB manufacturers for Athlon out there. I have heard Gigabyte has a nice board, and I think Abit does too. You might want to check out www.tomshardware.com, I think he has a review of some Athlon MBs. I personally would wait for the KX133 chipset VIA will soon be shipping. (www.via.tw.com) It will support 4x AGP, and PC133 memory.
isint that the chip set intell is realy raising a stink about , pulling them into court in three difrent countys to dispute the licencing agrement they got wwhen they bought cyrex ?
I read an article about it, but I can't remember if it was about the chipset or the CPU they just came out with. From what I remember VIA violated some agreement with Intel.
At 11:02 AM 3/16/2000 -0500, Jesse Marlin wrote:
I recently bought the Asus K7M (600 Mhz Athlon) and have not had any
trouble,
except for a stupid BIOS upgrade. I had both Win98 and linux already installed and just swapped out the motherboard. Win98 asked for a bunch of drivers, and eventually came on line, while linux booted the first time.
Yatsen Ng writes:
Hi there,
I bought a new pc equiped with an AMD Athlon and I just wanted to know if there's anything I need to take into account when I install Linux. There's a special bootdisk for Athlon systems on the SuSE site, am I correct? I understand that this is necessary only if an older kernel is used. Which kernel is that? I've got SuSE 6.2 (with kernel 2.2.10).
Thanks, -- Yatsen Ng yatsen.ng@brunel.nl Den Haag, The Netherlands
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Yatsen Ng wrote:
Hi there,
I bought a new pc equiped with an AMD Athlon and I just wanted to know if there's anything I need to take into account when I install Linux. There's a special bootdisk for Athlon systems on the SuSE site, am I correct? I understand that this is necessary only if an older kernel is used. Which kernel is that? I've got SuSE 6.2 (with kernel 2.2.10).
Thanks, -- Yatsen Ng yatsen.ng@brunel.nl Den Haag, The Netherlands
Here are my 2 cents: I just bought an Amd Athlon 650 on an Asus 440BX Flagship mobo, 128MB mem, IBM 15GB harddisk (7200rpm) and a Matrox Millenium Dual Head, 32MB AGP. The machine I already had is exactly the same, but for the CPU is a P-III 500 and the harddisk is an IBM 15GB 7200 rpm. I installed SuSE 6.3 on both. Now for the troubles and performance: - The installation was (as usual) flawless. No trouble at all. - I didn't see any differences between the installation on the Pentium or the Athlon, only the kernelmessages about the bugs were slightly off. - The performance on the Athlon is quite a bit better. I'm not sure how to express the rates, but I run SETI@Home (maybe you know it) and one block of data runs approx. 10 hours on the P-III and about 8 hrs on the Athlon. Quite some difference I'd say. Greetz, Rogier +---------------------------------+ | Rogier Maas | | icarus@guldennet.nl | | http://www.guldennet.nl~icarus/ | | ICQ# 2403780 | +---------------------------------+ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
How did you get an Athlon to work on a 440BX motherboard? On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, you wrote:
Yatsen Ng wrote:
Hi there,
I bought a new pc equiped with an AMD Athlon and I just wanted to know if there's anything I need to take into account when I install Linux. There's a special bootdisk for Athlon systems on the SuSE site, am I correct? I understand that this is necessary only if an older kernel is used. Which kernel is that? I've got SuSE 6.2 (with kernel 2.2.10).
Thanks, -- Yatsen Ng yatsen.ng@brunel.nl Den Haag, The Netherlands
Here are my 2 cents:
I just bought an Amd Athlon 650 on an Asus 440BX Flagship mobo, 128MB mem, IBM 15GB harddisk (7200rpm) and a Matrox Millenium Dual Head, 32MB AGP.
The machine I already had is exactly the same, but for the CPU is a P-III 500 and the harddisk is an IBM 15GB 7200 rpm. I installed SuSE 6.3 on both.
Now for the troubles and performance:
- The installation was (as usual) flawless. No trouble at all.
- I didn't see any differences between the installation on the Pentium or the Athlon, only the kernelmessages about the bugs were slightly off.
- The performance on the Athlon is quite a bit better. I'm not sure how to express the rates, but I run SETI@Home (maybe you know it) and one block of data runs approx. 10 hours on the P-III and about 8 hrs on the Athlon. Quite some difference I'd say.
Greetz, Rogier
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I just bought an Amd Athlon 650 on an Asus 440BX Flagship mobo, 128MB mem, IBM 15GB harddisk (7200rpm) and a Matrox Millenium Dual Head, 32MB AGP.
How can that be possible - an Athlon on a BX motherboard? I have an Epox EP-7KXA with the VIA KX133 chipset. I just created the Athlon bootdisk (I have 6.2) a minute ago and now I'm going to install SuSE on my brand new PC. Wish me luck! -- Yatsen Ng yatsen.ng@brunel.nl Den Haag, The Netherlands It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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