Subject: MSI K8N nForce3
To: None <fvdl@netbsd.org>
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Bill=20Russell=20Nicolas?= <nicolas_bill_os@yahoo.co.uk>
List: port-amd64
Date: 09/09/2004 11:25:33
Does your patch dated October 22, 2003 allow NetBSD to
run on MSI K8N Neo Platinum mobo with an AMD Athlon 64
2800+?

Here are the specs of the mobo:
CPU

• Supports 64-bit AMD® Athlon™ 64 processor (Socket
754)
• Supports up to 3200+, 3400+, 3700+ or higher CPU

Chipset

• nVIDIA® nForce3 250Gb Chipset
- Supports Athlon™ 64 processor (Socket 754), 800MHz
Hypertransport interface.
- Supports single memory channels, DDR 400/333/266
without ECC support.
- Supports external AGP 4X/8X
- Integrated Serial ATA interface: dual channel 4
S-ATA RAID controller and dual channel
   ATA 133/100/66/33 master mode EIDE controller.
- Integrated an nVIDIA MAC for Gigabit LAN.
- Supports 8 high speed USB2.0 ports.
- AC'97 2.3 compliance.


Main Memory

• Supports 3 slots for 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM modules.
• Supports DDR 400/333/266.
• Supports a maximum memory size of 2GB for DDR400
• Supports a maximum memory size of 3GB for DDR333


Slots

• One AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) 1.5V 4X/8X slot
• Five 32-bit v2.3 Master PCI bus slots (support
3.3v/5v PCI bus interface). 


On-Board IDE/SATA

• An IDE controller on the nVIDIA nForce3 250Gb
chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO,
   Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes.
- Can connect up to 4 IDE devices

• 4 S-ATA RAID controller and dual channel ATA
133/100/66/33 master mode EIDE controller.


Audio

• 7.1 channel audio codec RealTek ALC850.
- Compliance with AC97 v2.3 Spec.
- Meet PC2001 audio performance requirement.


LAN

• nVIDIA® nForce3 NV Gigabit LAN controller
- Integrated Fast Ethernet MAC and PHY in one chip.
- Supports 10Mb/s, 100Mb/s and 1000Mb/s
auto-negotiation operation.
- Compliant with PCI v2.2.
- Supports ACPI Power Management.


IEEE1394

• Supports up to 3 x 1394 ports.
- Transfer rate is up to 400Mbps
- Controlled by VIA 6306 chipset


On-Board Peripherals

On-Board Peripherals include:
- 1 floppy port supports 1 FDD with 360K, 720K, 1.2M,
1.44M and 2.88Mbytes
- 1 serial port
- 1 parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
- 6 audio ports
- 8 USB 2.0 ports (Rear x 4 / Front x 4)
- 1 RJ45 LAN jack
- 3 IEEE 1394 connectors (Rear x 1/ Front x 2) 

Thanks!



	
	
		
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