rrpalma@synopsis.ws wrote:
Hello Kevin / Ken,
Thanks for both of your replies. I'm only planning on having just 2 GB RAM. So I would assume any possible conflicts / problems are due to the version of the BIOS and the kernel version? Not any problems between the Tyan motherboard and the nVidia card? So I should not upgrade the BIOS if I want to use SuSE 9.2?
BTW: What sise PSU yo have?
Thank you VERY MUCH again...
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-----Kevin_Gassiot@veritasdgc.com wrote: -----
To: Ken Siersma <siersmak@ekkinc.com> From: Kevin_Gassiot@veritasdgc.com Date: 01/24/2005 12:22PM cc: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] AMD64 / Tyan S2885 and NVidia 6800 Ultra
I have one of those in my office ( Tyan S2885, Nvidia 6800 Ultra). We are running the Tyan S2885/Nvidia combo with 16 Gb of memory in production, but we are still running Suse 9.0 and an older BIOS for the motherboard for production work:
v1.02 BIOS SuSE 9.0 ( I am running the 2.4.21-193 or 2.4.21-243 kernel) Nvidia 1.0-6629 driver
I have tried loading Suse 9.1 and 9.2 to get to the 2.6 kernel, but in the little bit of testing that I have been able to do, going to the new v2.02 BIOS for this board made the system unable to boot Suse 9.1, and had to do some contortions to get 9.2 to boot. Have been doing some testing this morning, and the v2.02 BIOS, Suse 9.2, Nvidia combo has been very unstable. Anytime I try to run my OpenGL testing program, either the X server locks up, or I get a screen full of garbage and have to reset the machine.
Don't know if it is specific to Suse or not, but I may try Fedora to see if I have the same problems....
Kevin Gassiot Advanced Systems Group Visualization Systems Support
Veritas DGC 10300 Town Park Dr. Houston, Texas 77072 832-351-8978 kevin_gassiot@veritasdgc.com
Ken Siersma com> To suse-amd64@suse.com 01/24/2005 11:03 cc AM Subject Re: [suse-amd64] AMD64 / Tyan S2885 and NVidia 6800 Ultra
rrpalma@synopsis.ws wrote:
Hello, Anybody tried the above combination, with a dual Opteron config? I'm thinking about putting up a system based on Tyan S2885 (thunder K8W) and the graphics card I like the most is the BFG GeForce 6800 Ultra OC. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your help.
________________________________________ Ricardo R Palma
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If you are thinking about ever having 4 or more GB of RAM, I'd stay away from the Tyan S2885 - see my thread 'System memory missing - AGP card taking it?'
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2 GB works fine for me. I don't have that specific card, but my Quadro FX 1100 also seems to work fine. My machine came with the latest BIOS (2.02) installed. From Kevin's notes, it seems I may want to downgrade my BIOS My power supply is 550W. -- Ken Siersma, Software Engineer EKK, Inc. phone: (248) 624-9957 fax: (248) 624-7158 http://www.ekkinc.com -- "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -MLK Jr.