> > If your BIOS is doing this (as opposed to
> > you mucking with the settings), I need to get the AMD BIOS
> > developers to talk to your BIOS developers.
>
> That would be great. Please do that. What's shown above is
> indeed the mtrr settings that come from the bios. I didn't
> change anything. And that's the same on two different PCs
> (both iwth A8V), so it's not that just one PC is broken or
> sth... However, whatever problems I was reporting to ASUS, I
> never got anything helpful back, or a fix in the next release
> etc. They seem to ignore user bug reports, but I guess they
> won't ignore AMD...
What motherboard, BIOS vendor, and BIOS version are you
using?
> > You may want to check if your BIOS has an option for "Discrete" or
> > "continuous" usage of MTRRs. Experiment with both settings - I
> > believe "discrete" should work better in a memory hoisting
> > environmnet.
>
> Unfortunately not! I read about other mainboards having this
> option in the bios and looked for it carefully, because other
> people reported they could fix the problem with the fglrx
> driver using this setting. Unfortunately, Asus didn't put
> such a setting in their latest release...
They're supposed to have done so, after a huge fuss we had
over these issues last year. After you give me the motherboard
models, BIOS vendor, and BIOS version I can hopefully get
this resolved.
-Mark Langsdorf
AMD, Inc.