On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 01:11 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:
I've built a new kernel without agpgart and set xorg.conf to use NVidia's agpgart instead. I've been playing with motherboard clocks, voltages, CPU speeds, a new BIOS and some new memory ( 2x 512M Kingston) that was causing problems just on this Asus A7N8X-E motherboard, but was OK on an ASROCK board, this box never fully booted with that memory, Sid, I'm beginning to regret buying ASUS. I couldn't find the features I was looking for in anything else, and I thought ASUS might have improved since the last time I dealt with one (P-II based celerons). It's a A7V880, the only KT880 board I could get stock of.
- Even with the latest beta BIOS, it still doesn't detect my year-and-a-half old Athlon's FSB correctly. It's a 2400+ 2Ghz which came ONLY with 266mhz FSB. Now I'm stuck running at 1.5ghz with 200mhz FSB, unless I "overclock" it. - Every couple of boots I get the type of screen you get when you're BIOS is busted - asking for a floppy to boot from. Then I reset it and all's fine, except for losing all the BIOS settings. If I remove my Radeon 7500 this problem goes away. (????) - Replacing the Radeon with my old GeForce MX4000 sorts out the boot problem, but it's an inferior card in every respect (performance, image quality). With the nv driver, mplayer and xine doesn't work - image doesn't update and X pretty much grinds to a halt untill I can kill the player. With the nvidia driver, X doesn't even come up. My screen just goes into DPMS mode, like when I power down. Locks the keyboard too, so I can't kill it. And by the way, all this worked peachy for two years on a Gigabyte GA-7ZXE board. All in all, I'll never buy ASUS again. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com