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Soltek SL-K8AV2-R and SL-K8AV2-RL
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2 25876 11-15-2005
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100% of reviewers None indicated 8.0



Description: socket 754 (AMD64-3000, 3200, ??)
K8T800 northbridge (800MHz FSB)
VIA VT8237 SATA raid controller
2G DDR400 RAM
audio onboard
8 USB ports

LAN onboard on K8AV2-RL : this is the only difference between the two boards


You will have BIG TROUBLE with raid. these boards don't have ide raid, and the linux sata drivers were released over six months after manufacture (here: http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=297#raid)
The bios only supports raid modes - so you can't even use your new drives as standalones, or with soft raid (which the driver will be anyway, if you can make it work)

what help can be found will be found here: http://forums.viaarena.com/messagevi...threadid=42610
Keywords: AMD64 SATA RAID audio lan
Chipset: K8T800 VT8237


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Old 04-17-2004, 03:19 AM   #1
andrewlorien
 
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 23

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 6

Kernel (uname -r):
Distribution: gentoo - amd64



ok, me again, i've got it working now

the sata drives WILL work standalone or under software raid, and you CAN boot from them. ie no raid drivers required, only the standard VIA drivers which are included with 2.6 kernels.

my GEIL DDR400 ram caused me the most trouble, i've got it working now by slowing it to 266MHz (133 in the bios) and setting the DIMM voltage to 2.8V (mb defaults to 2.6 and goes to 2.9 which causes lots of trouble)

took a month to work all that out, but it's very stable now!!!
 
Old 11-15-2005, 03:11 AM   #2
andrewlorien
 
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 23

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.13-gentoo-r3
Distribution: gentoo


that's my original review above...
and i'm here now to report that i'm 18 months older and wiser.

i've realised that everyone has trouble with AMD64 ram compatibility, and i've just built another linux system with a very similar Gigabyte motherboard, which had similar problems and a MUCH less powerful BIOS.

so i'm giving the board a ten now, which should average my previous rating up to an 8, which is probably just about right.
 




  



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