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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:06:47 -0400
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Recommended motherboards?
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We've only bought 2 motherboards in the recent past, i.e. they're still available.

The first is a Biostar P4VTB. It has on-board VIA Rhine ethernet and serial-ATA chips.
There had problems with it at first, it would lock-up randomly into a state that even a
non-maskable interrupt couldn't disturb; it was traced to a chip-errata in the P4
which a BIOS update cured. As far as I know it works fine now. There are probably
a dozen other motherboards using the same components from different manufacturers.

The second is probably not what you're looking for, a Tyan S2882 dual-Opteron system.
I haven't had any problems with it so far.

Ron Minnich can probably advise on the good/bad points of what's available in the
mini-ITX format.

--jim