Hello Larry, I indeed saw several reports of ASUS A7M266-D running Linux on the net, which is why I bought an AMD bi-proc mobo in the first place: I was sure that it would work smoothly... Very strange, this WD drive stuff. I also have a WD drive ! The 120GB model with 8MB of cache. But the same happens with my older IBM 10GB and my Fujitsu 40GB (just tested tonight for the Fujitsu)
I think my EEC settings are OK, I can choose between no EEC, detection, detection+correction or something else that I don't remember. I tried no ECC and correction, it made no difference. The processor is in socket 1, as recommended by MSI I am now testing with a Redhat 6.2 CD (I didn't know Mandrake at that time :-) and it seems to work allright. That's a 2.2.14 kernel. I strongly suspect that something in the 2.4 kernel has to be switched off, but I can't figure what... Any ideas ? Thanks for your help ! Stephane > I don't have the same motherboard but the AMD 768 works just fine on the > Asus A7M266-D. On this machine I run 2x AMD2400+ with Matrox drives. Had > a problem with one machine with the same problems installing linux, it > was on a WD drive, it simply would not install. > > You might double check your BIOS settings for the memory EEC settings. > > BTW which cpu socket are you using? Not sure if it makes any difference. > > ??? > > Larry > -- Stephane Junique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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