From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262115AbTKMHya (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 02:54:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262119AbTKMHya (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 02:54:30 -0500 Received: from as13-5-5.has.s.bonet.se ([217.215.179.23]:15000 "EHLO K-7.stesmi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262115AbTKMHy2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 02:54:28 -0500 Message-ID: <3FB3392B.1050801@stesmi.com> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:56:27 +0100 From: Stefan Smietanowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jh@oobleck.astro.cornell.edu CC: solt@dns.toxicfilms.tv, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Via KT600 support? References: <200311111921.hABJLur16428@oobleck.astro.cornell.edu> <200311121509.hACF9HG20967@oobleck.astro.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: <200311121509.hACF9HG20967@oobleck.astro.cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Joe Harrington wrote: >>>During install of Fedora Core 1, Fedora Core test3, Red Hat 9, and >>>Debian 3.0r1, the install fails at a random point, generally during >>>the non-interactive package loading phase. The most recent kernel >>>with the problem is kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl in the Fedora Core 1 >>>release. The problem is 100% reproducible. > > >>Hmm, I have installed Mandrake 9.1 on some Gigabyte KT600 motherboard >>with no problems. It had 2.4.21 kernel. > > >>Maybe you should check if there's a BIOS update for that MB? > > > 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. Have you tried running with only one stick of memory ? I have a Soyo KT600 board and it runs perfectly with one 512MiB PC3200 DIMM. // Stefan