VIA KT133A Northbridge bug reported

VIA KT133A Northbridge bug reported

[Dr S.M. Huen]

I saw a report on AMDZone of another VIA chipset bug.  The original source
is:-
http://www.chip.de/news_stories/news_stories_163106.html

The claim from AMDZone's translation is that:-
" According to the report KT133A boards with chipset codes of 1EA0 and
1EA4 can have the bug which causes your computer to restart."

Has this one bitten Linuxers yet?

Re: VIA KT133A Northbridge bug reported

[Holger Lubitz]

"Dr S.M. Huen" proclaimed:

> I saw a report on AMDZone of another VIA chipset bug.  The original source
> is:-
> http://www.chip.de/news_stories/news_stories_163106.html
> 
> The claim from AMDZone's translation is that:-
> " According to the report KT133A boards with chipset codes of 1EA0 and
> 1EA4 can have the bug which causes your computer to restart."

This seems like a translation error. The german original reads
"Eigentlich für C-Athlons ausgelegt, produziert die Northbridge VT8363A
Restart-Probleme mit genau dieser CPU." which roughly translates to
"Originally intended for C-Athlons, the Northbridge VT8363A causes
restart problems with exactly this CPU."

The original article goes on with "Wie Stephan Schwolow von MSI
Deutschland gegenüber CHIP Online mitteilte, lässt sich das Problem mit
der VIA-Northbridge anhand eines Warmstarts aus dem DOS-Modus oder einem
Windows-Neustart identifizieren: Bleibt der Bildschirm schwarz, hat der
Chip einen Fehler."

Translation: "As Stephan Schwolow from MSI Germany told Chip Online, the
problem with the VIA northbridge can be identified by a warm start from
DOS or a Windows reboot: If the screen stays black, the chip has an
error."

As far as I understand it, the problem is only affecting "warm reboots".
And I couldn't care less about warm reboots - my machines usually run
24/7 :) 

Holger

Re: VIA KT133A Northbridge bug reported

[Joseph Carter]

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On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:56:15PM +0200, Holger Lubitz wrote:
> Translation: "As Stephan Schwolow from MSI Germany told Chip Online, the
> problem with the VIA northbridge can be identified by a warm start from
> DOS or a Windows reboot: If the screen stays black, the chip has an
> error."
> 
> As far as I understand it, the problem is only affecting "warm reboots".
> And I couldn't care less about warm reboots - my machines usually run
> 24/7 :) 

I have seen this problem sometimes.  I don't read German though - does the
page mention a fix?

My machines usually run 24/7 too, but there's this little think called DRI
which for some people works really nicely.  Some of us are not as lucky
though and in the meantime have problems with rebooting our machines.  It
seems that an ATX power off is not sufficient to get things going again,
power must be cut to the main supply for a few seconds first.  Thankfully
my PSU has a real switch.

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{OT?]Re: VIA KT133A Northbridge bug reported

[Dr S.M. Huen]

On Tue, 29 May 2001, Joseph Carter wrote:

> On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:56:15PM +0200, Holger Lubitz wrote:
> > Translation: "As Stephan Schwolow from MSI Germany told Chip Online, the
> > problem with the VIA northbridge can be identified by a warm start from
> > DOS or a Windows reboot: If the screen stays black, the chip has an
> > error."
> > 
> > As far as I understand it, the problem is only affecting "warm reboots".
> > And I couldn't care less about warm reboots - my machines usually run
> > 24/7 :) 
> 
> I have seen this problem sometimes.  I don't read German though - does the
> page mention a fix?
> 
In:-
http://www.theinquirer.net/28050107.htm

it claims that MSI are offering swaps of their KT7 MBs of those steppings
with MBs with the latest stepping.