A new AMD64 bit machine, new SUSE 9.3, should be heaven. Machine hangs after a few minutes of use, but I can't tell why. I hope someone recognizes a problem part so I can address it. Parts: Motherboard: Asus A8V-E includes: Disk controller: VIA SATA and IDE drives Network: Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E gigabit sound, usb, firewire on board CPU: AMD Athlon64 XP3500+ Graphics: Gigabyte PCI-Express 6600GT (NX66T128D) Attempts: WinXP: Embarassingly stable. SuSE9.3 (64bit) crashes Fedora Core 4 64-bit crashes Ubantu64 crashes DamnSmallLinux (embedded under XP with QEMU) stable!!! Obviously SuSE is my choice. I keep trying online update, hoping that the system will stay up long enough to complete and that a fix is coming. Any thoughts? Paul Alfille
2005/7/4, Paul Alfille <palfille@earthlink.net>:
Attempts: WinXP: Embarassingly stable. SuSE9.3 (64bit) crashes Fedora Core 4 64-bit crashes Ubantu64 crashes DamnSmallLinux (embedded under XP with QEMU) stable!!!
WTH is crashing?? what service ? error message? -- Cristian Rodriguez. "for DVDs in Linux screw the MPAA and ; do dig $DVDs.z.zoy.org ; done | \ perl -ne 's/\.//g; print pack("H224",$1) if(/^x([^z]*)/)' | gunzip"
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 07:20, Paul Alfille wrote:
A new AMD64 bit machine, new SUSE 9.3, should be heaven.
Machine hangs after a few minutes of use, but I can't tell why. I hope someone recognizes a problem part so I can address it.
Parts: Motherboard: Asus A8V-E includes: Disk controller: VIA SATA and IDE drives Network: Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E gigabit sound, usb, firewire on board CPU: AMD Athlon64 XP3500+ Graphics: Gigabyte PCI-Express 6600GT (NX66T128D)
Attempts: WinXP: Embarassingly stable. SuSE9.3 (64bit) crashes Fedora Core 4 64-bit crashes Ubantu64 crashes DamnSmallLinux (embedded under XP with QEMU) stable!!!
Obviously SuSE is my choice. I keep trying online update, hoping that the system will stay up long enough to complete and that a fix is coming.
Any thoughts?
Paul Alfille
I can only wish you good luck. I have been fighting my new TPG AMD 64 laptop for well over a week, with zero support from TPG. My emails have been absolutely ignored by TPG. Regards, Colin
Colin Carter wrote:
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 07:20, Paul Alfille wrote:
A new AMD64 bit machine, new SUSE 9.3, should be heaven.
Machine hangs after a few minutes of use, but I can't tell why. I hope someone recognizes a problem part so I can address it.
Parts: Motherboard: Asus A8V-E includes: Disk controller: VIA SATA and IDE drives Network: Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E gigabit sound, usb, firewire on board CPU: AMD Athlon64 XP3500+ Graphics: Gigabyte PCI-Express 6600GT (NX66T128D)
Attempts: WinXP: Embarassingly stable. SuSE9.3 (64bit) crashes Fedora Core 4 64-bit crashes Ubantu64 crashes DamnSmallLinux (embedded under XP with QEMU) stable!!!
Obviously SuSE is my choice. I keep trying online update, hoping that the system will stay up long enough to complete and that a fix is coming.
Any thoughts?
Paul Alfille
I can only wish you good luck. I have been fighting my new TPG AMD 64 laptop for well over a week, with zero support from TPG. My emails have been absolutely ignored by TPG. Regards, Colin
Support!, from a bunch of One Note Samba-ists? You must be kidding. They hear Linux, shrug and say they don't know how to play that one. I bought this shiny new 64-bit Acer laptop in April of last year, blasted XP off it after it booted up successfully. 9.2 x86_64 installed almost flawlessly, just one problem with audio until a google search foun the correct modules I needed to load. Months later I had a problem where the CD/DVD gave garbage characters as the make and model. I rang Acer Support, eventually to be told that Linux overwrites part of the BIOS and that could be the trouble. As I was about to tell them they talking out of their hats, it started working again and is still good. Check if there is a BIOS update, that's often the trouble on most boxen. If you can, try booting a knoppix CD to see if it works. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
On Monday 04 July 2005 2:20 pm, Paul Alfille wrote:
A new AMD64 bit machine, new SUSE 9.3, should be heaven.
Machine hangs after a few minutes of use, but I can't tell why. I hope someone recognizes a problem part so I can address it.
First thing I would do is run memtest86 on it, I had similar issues with my AMD64 and it turned out to be the memory chips, had to pull them back from DDR400 to DDR333 to get stability once I bumped it to 1 gig. Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-21.7-default x86_64 SuSE Linux 9.3 (x86-64)
--- Paul Alfille <palfille@earthlink.net> wrote:
A new AMD64 bit machine, new SUSE 9.3, should be heaven.
Machine hangs after a few minutes of use, but I can't tell why. I hope someone recognizes a problem part so I can address it.
Parts: Motherboard: Asus A8V-E includes: Disk controller: VIA SATA and IDE drives Network: Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E gigabit sound, usb, firewire on board CPU: AMD Athlon64 XP3500+ Graphics: Gigabyte PCI-Express 6600GT (NX66T128D)
Attempts: WinXP: Embarassingly stable. SuSE9.3 (64bit) crashes Fedora Core 4 64-bit crashes Ubantu64 crashes DamnSmallLinux (embedded under XP with QEMU) stable!!!
Obviously SuSE is my choice. I keep trying online update, hoping that the system will stay up long enough to complete and that a fix is coming.
Any thoughts?
Paul Alfille
-- When Windows is stable, but linux is not I like to check the bios. Google around for bios setup info with linux and linux64. The basic idea is that you can not shadow anything, no mem holes, etc.
Back when 32bit was new I had a linux box that behaved like you described. The shadowed bios system calls were only 16 bit and not needed. I am guessing you have some 32bit code in the bios that you need to disable - just use linux drivers for everything. Rafe
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 16:03, Rafe wrote:
--- Paul Alfille <palfille@earthlink.net> wrote:
A new AMD64 bit machine, new SUSE 9.3, should be heaven.
Machine hangs after a few minutes of use, but I can't tell why. I hope someone recognizes a problem part so I can address it.
Hi, Someone just this week solved an ASUS problem with the latest MB BIOS from ASUS. I would run MEMTEST86 from the SUSE install media. Let it run 24Hrs to be sure. I have seen situations where XP runs with bad SIMMS but SUSE hangs. You decide which is safer. PeterB
Summary: New AMD64 machine ASUS A8VE-deluxe motherboard was horribly unstable. First the upgrade to BIOS 1008 helped allow Suse installation. Next the motherboard needed to be replaced after a month because it wouldn't boot. Next even WinXP crashed and the entire disk was garbled. Finally increasing RAM error prompted a RAM replacement. Now everything works! (SuSE10 for AMD64) Both sets of RAM are labeled: KVR400X64C3A/512 The newer (good) chips have components on both sides and are also labeled PC3200 CL3 184-pin I hope my struggles help someone.
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