Vicki, a couple of comments:
1. If this is an intel 430TX chipset based board then you're never going to
be able to cache more than 64Mb of your RAM. There is a performance hit in
this uncached memeory; and it's one of the reasons that I've stuck to my ASUS
XP55T2P4 v3.1 motherboard. On the downside, the HX chipset is no longer
manufactured by intel. Some boards are still available. It doesn't support
SDRAM/DIMM type memory; it uses either parity or non-parity RAM.
On the plus side, with a tagram chip installed, I can support up to 512MB RAM
with this setup. Pending an upgrade to a PII based mboard & system, I prefer
staying with the 430HX chipset based boards.
Best
rickf
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> Hi all. I bought an Abit TX5 motherboard this weekend with 2 64MB
> DIMMS. It appeared to work at first, but there were IRQ conflicts
> and it didn't see all the memory. I got rid of the IRQ conflicts
> that were reported by the BIOS and was able to boot the original
> kernel off of the Redhat 5.0 from my initial install but not the one
> I'd compiled with the other motherboard in. I recompiled the kernel
> to include my Adaptec card support etc. and started to get errors
> indicating that the IRQ of the Adaptec card (12) wasn't being
> accepted - reported that it might be wrong but it wasn't. While I
> had it booted, I added the mem=128M line to lilo.conf (already had
> the Adaptec stuff in there), and I haven't been able to boot since.
> I get a kernel panic saying that it can't mount root at some strange
> numeric address like 22:1b or something like that. Does anyone have
> one of these motherboards working. If so, I'll plug along, trying to
> iron out the IRQ conflicts (it doesn't see my mouse on com1 either).
> If not, it's still under warranty and returning it is a possibility.
> Thanks.
> --vicki stanfield
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