Re: Via KT600 support?

[Ruth Ivimey-Cook <ruth.ivimey-cook@ivimey.org>]

Joe Harrington wrote:

>Yes, thanks, I did that before I posted.  The problem exists with both
>the original BIOS (1004) and the latest (1005).
>
>Is anyone aware of similar problems with other manufacturers' KT600
>boards that were fixed in recent BIOS updates?  Perhaps Asus has a
>BIOS bug they haven't fixed yet.
>
>By the way, I also underclocked both the CPU and the memory as far
>down as they would go, just to check, and the problem persisted.
>  
>
I have an A7V600 too, with a Athlon 2100+. I found that the 2.4 kernel 
support (2.4.20 ... 22) was not up to it also, and switched to try the 
2.6.0-t9 kernel; this has, so far, proved fairly stable, with the 
exception of a might_sleep problem on the plug-in PCI IEEE1394 card I have.

I noticed that, with 2.4, the kernel was treating the KT600 chipset as a 
KT400 chipset: I don't know if this has changed in later editions of 
2.4, but it seemed to be an undesireable thing to do, which partly 
prompted my shift to 2.6

I too tried updating the BIOS to 1005; it does seem to fix a power-up 
problem (originally the BIOS would sometimes claim that a hardware fault 
had happened which hadn't hapened) but there still seem to be issues 
with the SATA ports: drives on them are never listed in the BIOS boot 
sequence, and unless I do a cold-boot (i.e. cable-unplugged, not just 
'off') the SATA drives aren't visible at all to the BIOS or to Linux.

One of these days I'll get around to filing a bug report about the SATA 
stuff with ASUS. Should it make a difference, the drives I@m using are 
Seagate 7200.7 120GB/8MB.

Regards,

Ruth