Hi Folks:
From the archives I see that several people are using the Tyan Thunder K8W (s2885) motherboard. I am trying to do the same and not having much luck. Any reports of success would be very interesting to me. In particular, I would like to know what other hardware you are using - particularly the make/model/quantity of your RAM.
Here is my current configuration: - Tyan s2885 MB - 1 AMD Opteron 246 CPU - 1 OCZ4001024ELERDC-K (512MB DDR400) - nVidia 5950 video - IBM {mumble} parallel ATA HD - some CDROM - PC Power & Cooling 510w power supply If I use mem=128m on the command line, things work pretty well. Otherwise, any memory intensive operations (like building a kernel or bunziping a large archive) will fail if tried repeatedly. Things also crash a lot. Memtest86 does report lots of errors. Many many errors in memory ranges above 128m. Mostly around the 256m and 511m boundary. I am currently running SUSE 9.0 for x86_64. This has been my first experience with SUSE - very pleasant to install and configure. Things that have been replaced: - Motherboard - Memory (different DIMMS from OCZ and also from Mushkin) - Processor (I've tried Opteron 240 & 246) - hard disk - Video (tried a non-AGP card) - Tried two other distributions (gentoo & RedHat) - Kernel (tried 2.6.0, 2.6.1 & 2.6.1-bk1) - ide cable - ide interface (tried a PCI IDE card) - The power supply was tested and appears to output nice clean juice I've tried more memory. Nothing I do seems to make this system work reliably. It is not very useful for it's intended application with only 128MB of the 2GB or RAM enabled. This is driving me crazy. It *almost* works so well. It's like having a Ferrari whose wheels fall off every block or two. If you read this entire post - thanks for your time. -- sused@mucus.com "Perfect! ....what am I doing?" -- Washu