ASUS P/I-P55SP3AV

[Craig Oda <craig@example.com>]

This ASUS board runs for about 29,000 yen in Akihabara and has
onboard accelerated video chips and onboard sound blaster Pro
compatible audio chipset.

Running with a 166mhz Pentium, I've encountered the following problems:

   o  Mitsumi ATAPI Quad Speed CD-ROM not functional.  Speed does not match
   o  SIMMS must be used in pairs of two which made current SIMM unusable
   o  SiS 6205 onboard video not usuable as X-Free86 does not support
	it.  Chips make use of 2MEG of system DRAM which is not possible
	under Linux
   o  ESS 1788 16 bit Audio chipset not supported due to use of 
	proprietary ASUS bus which Linux incorrectly detects
	as a PCI bus.  

The board is functional now with the additional of an add-in PCI
video card, Mitsumi proprietary CD-ROM driver, etc.   If I buy a 
sound card, it will be humming along.

Anyway, just thought I would let people know.  

When is the next meeting?  I got a call from a woman from Finland asking
about it.

Regards,
Craig
	

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