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 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.

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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?' -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help@suse.com