Re: is nForce2 good choice under Linux?

From: John Dee
Date: Fri Feb 13 2004 - 19:38:08 EST


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I have a shuttle FN41G2. It works well for my needs.
have an extra ethernet card handy, though, because without the forcedeth
patch, you won't have ethernet.

aviv bergman wrote:
| On Friday 13 February 2004 22:32, Daniel Drake wrote:
|
|>I have been perfectly happy with my NF7-S, except from the one time it
|>failed on me (didn't boot up), and I had to get it replaced. I think there
|>is a general risk involved in buying nforce2 boards, their rate of failure
|>is fairly high. Still, the benefits are nice.
|
|
| the shuttle FN41 (sn41g2 xpc) is probably safe - i had very frequent
lockups
| after upgrading to 2.6.0, flashed to the latest bios, and the system
is rock
| stable since (2.6.1 w/apic)
|
| you better check if the specific board you are going to buy has a
fixed bios.
|
| aviv
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