System advice requested

[Will Saxon]

> 
> There are several hardware-issues related threads in the archives at
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/ -- it looks 
> like some
> SATA stuff is to be avoided, depending on your FBSD install 
> image the GigE
> may give you some trouble and require a different NIC for 
> fetching newer
> sources, 4+2 DIMM configurations are crap.

At least with my board (an 'awful' 4+0 MSI K8T Master2-FAR board) the onboard broadcom NIC does not work correctly with bge. It does work with ndis though. Also for whatever reason -current as of last weekend would lock the machine up hard after ~ 30 minutes. Haven't had time to work on why.

-Will