Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (314 mails)

[Robert Cunningham <rcunning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Janis Klava wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 March 2005 14:27, Alex Angerhofer wrote:
>  
> > Stefan:
> >
> > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Stefan Suurmeijer wrote:
> >    
> > > Problem is: I've already disabled it and put in an e100 pro. I've even
> > > tried putting one SATA drive on the Promise controller and the other on
> > > the VIA. No change. I've exchanged the memory for the second time, now
> > > it has Dane Elec RAM chips. No effect either. The PSU is an Antec
> > > TruePower 430 W, should be ok. By now, I'm actually thinking of
> > > installing <OMG>Windows</OMG> on the machine to see what happens. Or
> > >      
> > I suspect that your mobo is defective. Put Windows on the box and check it
> > out. That way you know for sure and youc an return it.
> >    
>
> Might read the following article .. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21780
>  
> > > Ubuntu. I even installed 32bit SuSE to see if that would help: it
> > > didn't. I could buy some Crucial RAM chips, but I'd like to make sure
> > > that'll actually help.
> > >      
> > Don't throw any more good money after bad hardware.
> >
> > Just my 2 cents.
> >
> > Best regards, Alex.
> >    
>
>  
I have had some issues when I fired up my board for the first time as 
well. From comments from  this group as well as others, I disabled the 
on board nic and installed a 3com nic. I had lockups and data loss from 
sata drives. It seems this board is very picky which drives you use. 
This first drive I tried was a Segate and I could not get it to work 
with either the promise or the via. I switched to 2  Hitachi (IBM) 
drives I put them on the promise, disabled the via and my board has 
worked great since. I also had trouble with the nivida 3d drivers with 
random lock-ups, since I don't do games I went back to the stock 2d 
drivers and  it currently has about 3 weeks uptime with no lockups.

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