Re: Problem with ASUS CUV4X-D board

[Alan <alan@clueserver.org>]

On Sunday 05 August 2001 11:44, Rodrigo Souza de Castro wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 10:27:34AM -0700, Alan wrote:
> > I am running this under 2.4.3. I will be testing 2.4.7 this afternoon to
> > see if I can fix the problem.
> >
> > The board works fine with a uniprocessor kernel.
> >
> > When booking under the stock mandrake 8.0 kernel, I get cascading error
> > messages about clock problems and blaming a VIA686A chipset.
> >
> > This has a VT82C686B PCI chipset.
> >
> > I tried to find info on the web on this and was not ver successful. 
> > (This is at a friend's house.  He is out in the middle on nowhere and is
> > lucky if he get 28.8k connections.)
> >
> > It this one of the non-correctable VIA chipsets?  Is there a workaround
> > for this?
> >
> > It is a dual P-III 733 with a gig of ram. I would hate to see it go to
> > waste. (Actually it will because it is not at MY house, but that is
> > another problem. ]:> )
> >
> > I was going to get one of these boards. I am glad I did not...
>
> 	I have this board with a dual P-III 1 GHz and it works fine
> with 2.4.7. Make sure you have at least revision 1007A for you BIOS
> (the latest is 1010) and disable MPS 1.4 in BIOS configuration.

The BIOS version was 1010. 

Disabling MPS 1.4 fixed the problem!

Thank you very much!