[OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

[Edward Martinez]

On 12/21/10 10:14, Kevin J. Woolley wrote:
> On Tuesday, 21 December, 2010 10:00, "Harry Putnam"<reader at newsguy.com>  said:
>
>> A few words from experienced people would be helpful on motherboard
>> choice.
>>
>> I've been running osol on this hardware:
>>
>>          cpu: AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3400+
>> motherboard: AOpen AK86-L  (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM
>> hard drives: 2 IDE 500GB, 2 sata 500GB, 2 sata 750GB
> Hi Harry,
>
> I'm grabbing ideas from the NCIX site.  They have a US site as well, so use these links to get the SKUs and look up the SKUs on the NCIX USA site if you're in the US.
>
> For the motherboard it sounds like this one will fit the bill, at CAD81 or so:
>
> http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=46944&vpn=M4A77TD&manufacture=ASUS
>
> You'll need a new CPU, but that can be had for ~CAD70:
>
> http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=56116&vpn=ADX250OCGMBOX&manufacture=AMD
>
> This RAM will give you 8GB right away at a little over CAD100 and keep two of the motherboard's four slots open to be able to upgrade to 16GB:
>
> http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=53427&vpn=CMX8GX3M2A1333C9&manufacture=Corsair
>
> You'll likely need a new PSU, as you said.  Here's one that's not too fancy but will give you 500W for CAD46:
>
> http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=45267&vpn=AL-D500EXP&manufacture=Apex%20Computer%20Technology
>
> The motherboard also includes six SATA2 connectors, so you have room to grow (or replace your PATA devices).
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> kjw
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      Hi,

     I suggest staying away from AMD Athlon 2 x2 series, because I have 
a system using the 240 series,  Openindiana, solaris 10,11 ex, 
opensolaris,etc do not work  due
     to a bug in the CPU; the problem is  the screen gets flooded with 
the error: apic error interrupt on cpu 0 status 0 = 0, status 1 =4, 
after grub in infinite loop. not sure if that bug may of  inherited  to  
the *A**MD Athlon II X2 250*    cpu

  this is the bug report i filed  back in march :
https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=15218

  Regards
  Edward

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