Tim Erickson wrote:
On Sunday 18 April 2004 08:51, Sid Boyce wrote:
I've had a replacement motherboard, CPU and memory, but it will not boot fully with a XP2600+ (Barton core) 166 Mhz x 11.5, 3200 DDR memory, however, with a XP2200+ (133 Mhz x ?) and it runs fine, at 133 Mhz all is fine, at 166 Mhz, it's bad. I have the latest BIOS (Rev 1001) installed, but that didn't make a difference. I wonder if anyone has one of these boards running with XP2600+ or faster. I should have heeded the advice and stayed away from Asus, my previous Asus boards over some years were trouble free. I would also like to know the experiences of anyone with a board from another manufacturer with similar stats, ethernet (10/100/1000), audio, USB 2.0, firewire and SATA, so I can get it changed. BTW, with the XP2200+, everything on the board is funtional, though I haven't used SATA, firewire or 1000 ethernet. Currently running SuSE 9.0 Pro with kernel.org 2.6.6-rc1. I couldn't install 9.0 Pro with the 2600+ in, it kept giving errors on installing packages. I've done a check on http://mp3.zonebg.com/cpu/cpu.php and the CPU is genuine. Regards Sid.
I'll weigh in here with a bit of personal experience. I built a system based on the A7nX-vm/400 board. In no way could I install SuSE9.0 on this while W98SE went on first try. Albeit, Win98 ran flaky.
With much digging on google groups and elsewhere I discovered that this board, and all A7NX variants are extremely memory sensitive. Only the best will do. Three different types of generic RAM failed to allow an install of SuSE, only when I paid to upgrade the RAM to high quality Kensington did I get a stable system.
BTW, My install errors were MD5 and other copy type errors. My CPU is an XP2500+ too.
You may wish to look into this as a possible source of trouble.
Tim
The memory is not Kingston memory, so that is a possibility. I just put the 2600+ into an A7V333 with DDR2100 memory and it failed the same way as on the A7N8X-E. I think I shall try to get some Kingston memory and see if it works. Thanks and Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.