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From: george@hal.eng.ufl.edu (Stephanie George)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Motherboard Chipset ID utility?
Date: 10 May 1995 21:15:11 GMT
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I've been seeing a few posts from this group regarding specific brands of
motherboard recommendations and chipsets to watch out for.  Namely, I've 
come to the conclusion that avoiding the Neptune chipset is just a real
good idea.

Is there a way to tell which chipset a particular motherboard has from looking
at the numbers on the chips?  Has anyone seen a utility that I can run from
DOS/BSD/whatever that can tell me the chipset I'm running?

I also saw and article in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce from Jordan Hubbard 
recommending the Intel Triton chipset MB.  What brand of MB was this?  Intel?
Asus?

Thanks,
Stephanie George