On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Stefan Suurmeijer wrote:
... Ah, I have two SATA drives (and one PATA), had them connected to the VIA SATA first, moved them to the Promise SATA instead (to rule out problems with the VIA). So you have on SATA drive on the promise and one on the VIA controller?
Yes.
,,, ok, I have overclocking on AI. Figured that that would use the default settings. I'll change them to the correct settings manually. What kind of Kingston RAM do you use? PC 3200 or faster?
Just regular PC3200, but of course a matched pair. To be more specific, this is what I use: http://www.ec.kingston.com/ecom/configurator/partsinfo.asp?ktcpartno=KVR400X...
... I also don't know if ssh is the only thing that makes the machine freeze, but it's the only thing I've been able to consistently reproduce. So I looked at network issues mainly
That still sounds weird.
Ok. I found a few references on the internet about people that had experienced lock-ups as well, and mentioned their being something wrong with the kernel module for the Marvell Gbit NIC
No problems here. I used this board with SuSE 9.1 64 bit and now since a couple of months 9.2 64 bit without any network problems. I have the Marvell sit on my Westell DSL modem and another network card to supply connectivity to another computer in the home.
... I had the issue you mention as well: this is actually my second A8V board: the first didn't boot twice either. And twice it did boot, but suddenly didn't detect the devices connected to the IDE controller. So I figured that the motherboard was defective, and exchanged it. Haven't had those issues anymore since. I always had good experiences with ASUS boards, this is the first time I've had this much trouble...
I'll try the overclocking settings and moving one SATA disk back to the VIA. By now I'll try pretty much anything :/
Good luck, Alex.