kernel configuration, hpet (was notebook with lunar?)

[Kok, Auke]

Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
>>> I do not think so. Asus saved cost by not providing heat spreader on
>>> south bridge (other manufacturers have some iron on this very same south
>>> bridge). Southbridge is hot as hell. I got SATA errors few times.
>> lol, ok I will reconsider ASUS mobo's now :)
> 
> This A8N-VM CSM was my learning that if everyone puts iron on chip and one 
> manufacturer does not do this,  it means accountants cut costs on this 
> product (so other things also can be broken and in my case they are).

lol, agreed, and with the notion that they better put aluminium on the chips
instead of iron - iron is a terrible conducter, that would be worse than air!

Auke