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- From: cliffp@steamboat.informix.com (Clifford Porter)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
- Subject: Re: Symphony Chipset Motherboards with Unix
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.165114.12734@informix.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 16:51:14 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.034913.3427@zooid.guild.org>
- Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News)
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- Organization: Informix Software
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- In article 3427@zooid.guild.org, vid@zooid.guild.org (David Mason) writes:
- >
- >Hi all,
- >
- >For the last while, I had an old Intel chipset 486DX-25 motherboard, with no
- >cache. It gave me a number of problems, so recently I acquired a new Symphony
- >chipset based motherboard. I cannot get this thing to run my Unix, Consensys
- >V4.2. It just locks up while it is booting up. It runs DOS fine.
- >
- >What I get is the "Booting the UNIX system" message, then it checks everything
- >out, then I get a PANIC and it writes 4000 pages of core. I've changed all the
- >parameters, I think, in most combinations. Does anyone have any "hints" or
- >even solutions? I've changed about everything in the BIOS.
- >
- >My system is SCSI Adaptec 1542B based, with 16MB of RAM. (4 X 4 MB simms, the
- >SIMMs are 9 chip SIMMs and they are tested OK). The only things in the system
- >are an ATI VGA Wonder, the Adaptec board, and a generic AT I/O with IDE (BIOS
- >HD disabled).
- >
- >The irritating thing is that with the old Intel chipset motherboard, I could
- >boot the UNIX fine. It just wouldn't keep working (PANICs every once in a
- >while).
- >
- >I went for a Symphony chipset because I was told it's better than the other
- >chipsets. What is a good chipset, while I'm here? I've heard bad things about
- >Opti and UMC. A discussion of what is a good, cheap motherboard would be
- >useful to a lot of people.
- >
- >
- >--
- >vid@zooid.guild.org -->> ZOOiD Public Access Usenet 416 322-7876
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-
- I have a Symphony chipset with AMI bios, 8 megs, 64k cache, IDE, 1542, and
- Tecmar Tape running Consensys 4.1.3, and os/2 superbly.
-