> Nothin good to say. I was stayin out of this for just that > reason. And 'cause I don't know.... why anyone would want an > nforce* chipset system for running Linux. They get good reviews > on Windoze systems hardware review sites, nowhere else. There > I've said it ;)
Oh dear! Unfortunately I'm fairly new at this and as a returning student at age 38 to an IT course bought a system from the college with their reccomended bits.... oh well we live and learn > To try and be helpful tho, I think a search of the lkml and > cooker mailing list archives for 'nforce' would be useful. IIRC > the usual first advice is to add 'noapic' and 'nolapic' to the > lilo.conf append line for the kernel being used. In order to > completely disable Linux kernel Advanced Programable Interrupt > Control, which nforce does Winsux style and with their > proprietary drivers. Did this successfully, most of the refences to APIC in the boot log are gone... > > Another thing I'd look into is the DDR ram used. Paul cited 1 > gig, but not the PCxxx rating, or better yet, the ns and Cas > rating and brand. Checking the RAM, it is 6 ns which I think works out to 166Mhz, at any rate that is the speed the BIOS reports... Double Data Rate giving 333Mhz...?? What is a 'Cas' rating?" Brand 'Elixr' > Asus usually specifies ram brands, Crucial is > often recommended. At least PC3200 should'a been used for that > board. Nothin good to say about nforce's "Twinbank" B$ either, > but I'd try takin one stick of the ram now being used out, and > see if just one stick does better. Also, better than using an > enterprise kernel if both sticks are used, pass 'mem=860M' to the > regular kernel on the lilo.conf append line. With all lilo.conf > changes, don't forget to run 'lilo' to actually make the change. Taking out one stick didn't help, hung on the first reboot. I'll try 'mem=860M' > > Another source of problems could be the 120GB Western Digital > SATA HDD. I believe research before purchase would'a precluded > getting a SATA drive, and specially a WD brand one for Linux use. > > Lockups, freezes, and hangs are an nforce trademark, even on > many Winblows systems, according to newsgroups. WD's suck, as > does SATA. Tol'ya I didn't have anything good to say ;) Seems like I managed to purchase all the wrong bits.... :-( anybody wanna buy a Windoze box - ??? -- Paul O'Rorke [EMAIL PROTECTED] (school) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (legacy/home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for MSN messenger) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for Yahoo messenger)
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