In search of an nForce2 board w/FireWire...

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 14:44:29 EDT 2008


On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Shawn O'Shea <shawn at eth0.net> wrote:
> The manual for the DFI  LanParty NFII Ultra says "nVIDIA(R) nForce2TM MCP-T
> and Agere FW803 Phy chips", so I guess that's what you mean
> (http://us.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_spec_details_r_us.jsp?PRODUCT_ID=1524&CATEGORY_TYPE=MB&SITE=US)
> Some flavor of the MSI K7N2G  might have it:
> http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=proddesc&prod_no=521&maincat_no=1
> The AOpen AK79G-1394 and AK79D-1394 (search this support page to download
> manuals http://usa.aopen.com/download.aspx) are prospects as well.
> I was just busting out some GoogleFu because I was curious :)

  The problem is, even tho the chip is present, doesn't mean there are
any actual firewire ports on the board.  :-D  I checked one of my old
home systems, and it DOES have an old nForce chipset, but no firewire
ports.

-- 
-- Thomas


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