Re: Athlon/MSI mobo combo broken?

[jury gerold <geroldj@grips.com>]

If you have PC100 SDRAM try to replace it with PC133.
This worked for my motherboard. (Gigabyte GA-7ZXR, VIA-KT133A, Athlon 
1.1MHz)

Cheers too

Gerold

Gerbrand van der Zouw wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Alan Cox wrote:
>
>> I'd be interested to know if 2.4.6-ac5 Athlon optimised works on your 
>> board.
>> The reason for this is that it contains the official VIA fixes for 
>> their IDE
>> corruption problem rather than our own.
>
>
> I have a MSI K7T Turbo (MS-6330) mobo (VIA-KT133A chipset) and had a 
> go with the 2.4.6-ac5 kernel with Athlon optimisations on. The overall 
> impression is that the combination is slightly more stable than 
> kernels without the Southbridge fix. I.e. I now manage to boot in 
> single user mode, however running anything as advanced as gcc is out 
> of the question: oopses all over the place and also some complaints 
> from the VM-system.
>
> I am in no way qualified enough to go hacking around in the kernel 
> myself, but am quite willing to test any patches that might help 
> towards solving the problem.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gerbrand van der Zouw
>