[openbeos] Re: Dual-core processors and BeOS?

I've got an Asus A8N-VM CSM (Geforce 6150) with an Athlon XP 3800+ X2. No problems except that i have to disable IDE DMA and Multi-processor support at each start to have a stable system. 

Regards,

Nicolas.

Euan Kirkhope a écrit :

I've got an AMD X2 3800+, with Asus A8R-MVP with an
Ati Xpress 200 based chipset.  R5 really doesn't like
it.  I think it's the IDE support, constant bus errors
and timeouts?  Zeta 1.20 doesn't seem to like it much
either.  Need to boot with CPU Features disabled, and
remove some memory (1GB doesn't work, 512 does).  Plus
it constantly crashes, and fails to boot.  It seems to
randomly reboot, at the bootloader handover stage. All seems due to timing of when to press space bar to 
enter the bootloader.

So really there's no problem with the dual core at
all, it's all in motherboard chipset support.

Euan

--- Thomas Winwood <ketsuban@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I am curious to know how people have fared getting
BeOS to work on the recent dual-core systems appearing on the market, particularly the Core Duo and Core 2 Duo chips. 

My reason for asking is I am planning on a major
upgrade to my computing in the not-so-distant future, and wish to know what my best options are. Money is not a particularly big problem, so long as I can get hold of the parts required in the UK. 

It seems like the choice is between paying an awful
lot for something like a dual-P3 system (which would at least guarantee hardware compatibility, but would do me no favours in terms of forward compatibility - I'm going to want to take advantage of technologies Haiku supports better than R5 did) and paying an 
awful lot for a dual-
core or dual-dual-core system.

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