On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 03:39, John Richard Smith wrote:I don't think so, never heard of anyone having problems with it.The KT266a nomenclature is something of a Mobo nomenclaute I think, the chip that works with memory is VIA, VT8366A (552BGA), which the manual stipulate is a " AGP 4X and PCI Advance memory controller "
Thanks Ryan ,
I have a MSI K7T266 Pro2 Mobo, capable of up to 3.0gigs of memory. I cannot find a reference to the memory controller in the mobo manual. It does say you can install PC1600/PC2100 DDR SDRAM modules on the DDR DIMM slots (DDR1-3) I believe they run on 2,5v as against 3.3v. In addition I have seen a reference somewhere that this mobo has a nForce-128 bit memory bus, but I don't think that is relevant is it .
That motherboard has a Via KT266A chipset which, from what I read seems to have some problems.
Good thinking . Now I do have M9.1rc2 on for test purposes , so I tried booting tothat in the 8WQ bios setting and what do you know, not problem at all.
See, I had bios set on 4QW when mandrake was installed, only found out afterwards I could up it to 8QW, and the manual references it being faster, I thought I would try it out. Trouble is Mandrake 9.0 boots up OK, I get to a login ,I login and a blue desktop arrives, but does not complete to the full thing with all the taskbar etc, and the mouse cursor hangs, indeed the whole computer hangs, I cannot even shutdown, I have to crash it.It is kind of weird that it works fine in windows but not linux. Have
John
you tried a different version of linux?
I'm think it's a M9.0 configuration problem ? because if W2K , and M9.1rc2 can handle it , but M9.0 does not them it makes sense to assume that.See if maybe it's specific to mandrake or a more general problem with how linux handles memory.
Could this be an X windows config Problem ? , if so I might try getting to a terminal somehow and try XFdrake.What happens if you boot to the command prompt instead of X? You might be able to find some help at http://forums.viaarena.com/.
Ryan
My AMI bios has a section "Advance Chipset Features"
In there is a section BURST LENGTH with the options 4QW and 8QW
According to handbook this allows you to set the size of the Burst-Length for DRAM.
The bigger the size the faster the DRAM performance.
I altered my bios setting to 8QW from 4QW and found everything boots fine in W2K,
but that Xwindows hangs on Mandrake 9.0.
It seems a pity to have to choose the slower setting just because of mandrake.
Is there any way of getting Mandrake to work with the higher setting ?
John
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