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Subject: RE: Stupid hardware problem
From: "Scott Raymond" <scott () link-net ! com>
Date: 2002-05-30 0:16:21
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Built-in VGA is difficult to find since there isn't much of a variety of
dual Athlon boards out there. You might consider the Asus MP board:
http://usa.asus.com/mb/socketa/a7m266-d/overview.htm
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Scott
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Scott Raymond
LinkAmerica Communications
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-list@inet-access.net
> [mailto:owner-list@inet-access.net] On Behalf Of up@3.am
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 12:09 PM
> To: list@inet-access.net
> Subject: RE: Stupid hardware problem
>
>
>
> Following up on my own post:
>
> I tried pulling one of the CPU's (thus supposedly voiding the
> warranty), which would hopefully de-load the PS somewhat, but
> the same problem persists. If it's still a power issue, I'd
> prefer to switch MB's than give up PS redundancy...the ONLY
> server component to fail on me in the past few years on a
> server I built was a PS.
>
> ...so let me switch gears here: recommendations for a fairly
> modern server motherboard that will play nice with 300W?
> Requirements:
>
> on-board LAN
> on-board VGA would be really nice
> FSB of at least 133Mhz (266 would be nice)
> 64 bit PCI
> Dual CPU highly desireable
> console redirection to the serial port would be nice.
>
> The Tiger had everything above except the VGA. I'd been using Intel
> L440GX+'s with no real problems, but the slow FSB and CPUs
> don't excite
> me.
>
> Thanks for all the responses!
>
> On Wed, 29 May 2002 up@3.am wrote:
>
> >
> > http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tigermpx.html
> >
> > near the bottom (pasted):
> >
> > Note:
> > The Tiger MPX is designed to accept the widest variety of ATX power
> > supplies ATX2.01 / 2.03 and ATX12V, The supply must have a minimum
> > output of 300 watts.
> >
> > This is a ~$500 hot-swappable EMACS (no relation to the
> text editor, I
> > presume). The link from that AMD website for EMACS is
> broken, and I
> > didn't see anything about this motherboard on their site yet...
> >
> > On Wed, 29 May 2002, Liam Randall wrote:
> >
> > > Where did you see the recommendation for a 300W power supply?
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: up@3.am [mailto:up@3.am]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 1:25 PM
> > > To: list@inet-access.net
> > > Subject: Re: Stupid hardware problem
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I think this, unfortunately, might be it. I tried setting
> > > 100Mbps/Full Duplex on the switch and card to no
> avail....it's got
> > > to be either the recommended 300w isn't sufficient, or the 3com
> > > chipset problem. Either way, I'm rapidly becoming a
> non-fan of Tyan
> > > and AMD hardware...grrr Tyan will NOT offer any kind of live
> > > support, and their site offers nothing on this or onboard LAN
> > > issues...
> > >
> > > On Wed, 29 May 2002, Chris Adams wrote:
> > >
> > > > Once upon a time, Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org> said:
> > > > > IMO, you don't have enough stuff in there to tax a
> 300W supply. I think
> > > > > you'd be seeing additional weirdness if it were a supply
> > > > > problem.
> > > >
> > > > You can't tell that from what was posted. A 300W power
> supply is
> > > > rated to put out a certain amount of 12V, a certain
> amount of 5V,
> > > > a certain amount of 3V, etc., and all those ratings add up to
> > > > 300W. You can't expect to load up on stuff that all pulls from
> > > > the 5V line for example.
> > > >
> > > > It is possible that the "core" of the motherboard is
> running from
> > > > the 5V line and the NIC from the 3V line, which could cause
> > > > problems if something else was also loading down the 3V line of
> > > > the power supply.
> > > >
> > > > That's why Athlons require 350-400W minimum power
> supplies; they
> > > > don't actually take 300W, but the power supply has to
> have a high
> > > > output on the 3V line IIRC.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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