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Marco Colombo wrote:
> 
> Sorry to bother you again with this issue, Alan... by 'AMD chipsets'
> you mean BOTH north and south bridges (eg. 761 + 766) or does it include
> also AMD NB + VIA SB combo?
> AMD 761 + VIA 686B based MBs are quite common this days: are they "safe"
> (do you have failure reports)?

At least my ASUS A7M266 works very well. It has AMD 761 nb and VIA 686B sb
and the 686B is used only for IDE and IO interfaces. PCI bus comes from the
761, AFAIK.

 - Jussi Laako

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