I just tried the QQ bios and it works too. The only I know that there is
a
problem is PW.
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Tom Berkley wrote:
> Since I have not had any problems with smp on my bp6, I checked the bios and this
> is what I have
>
> 11/03/1999 - i440BX - W83977 - 2A69K1SC - NJ
>
> NJ bios works well here.
>
> Kyle D Reynolds wrote:
>
> > I had the same problem when I upgraded the BIOS. When you boot the
> > machine look at the long string of charcters at the bottom of the screen.
> > The last two letters should be the BIOS version. I believe the PW version
> > has problems with linux. The NJ which is older doesn't have any problems.
> > You can get the older BIOS from ABITs website or www.bp6.com.
> >
> > On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, root wrote:
> >
> > > I just recently put togfether an SMP sytem using an abit BP6 two celeron
> > >
> > > 500's, 3dfx voodoo3 3000 agp, soundblaster live value, western digital
> > > ide hard drive, tekram dc390f scsi card, kingston kne30t ethernet card,
> > > and 128 megs of micron pc 100 sdram. I installed RH 6.1 on it kernel
> > > 2.2.12-20 from the cd. Anyway the install went fine but on bootup linux
> > > gets about
> > > halfway through the startup processes, and the screen goes black and it
> > > reboots.
> > > I can get a uni-processer kernel to boot no problem but it's the SMP
> > > that doesn't
> > > do it. I also compiled a 2.2.14 kernel with smp and it does exactly the
> > > same thing. I can't figure it out but I think it may have somethingto do
> > >
> > > with dma or irq's. I don't really know what to do or look for so I could
> > > use some
> > > help because right now I'm only using one processor thus defeating the
> > > point of smp. Thanks in
> > > advance, -peel
> > >
> > > John Peel
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> > >
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