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. -- Robert Cunningham Sr. Physics Laboratory Coordinator /RSO Kettering University Flint, Michigan 48504 (810) 762-7935 rcunnig@kettering.edu