On Monday 06 November 2000 12:03 am, Mandeep Chadha wrote:
> I bought this motherboard a while back and do not recall it's name
> (it is not a brand name). It uses a VXPro chipset (PC82C437VX+).
>
> It's UDMA/33 support for hard disk access (on ide0 & ide1).
>
> -Mandeep
I thought when you used 'experimental', it might be some new
engineering sample motherboard, not yet released. But yours is an
old board. IIRC, there's problems with early AMD, VIA, and some
HDD's. I believe part of the solution was to underclock the FSB,
eg, run it at 95mhz. Some time ago there was a poster on the expert
mailing list named Civilme. He had thoroughly explored this VIA
situation and posted solutions for various VIA/HDD configurations.
Try searching the expert mailing list archive.
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
>
> >From: Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: [newbie] How to disable UDMA support during LM7.2
> > installation Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 18:40:39 -0600
> >
> >On Sunday 05 November 2000 02:41 pm, Mandeep Chadha wrote:
> > > My computer has an experimental VIA UDMA chipset
> >
> > what motherboard uses this 'x' chipset ?? and direct memory
> >access for what?
> >--
> >Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston
> > Bay
> >
> >and I have had
> >
> > > to disable UDMA support in the BIOS for things to work. When I
> > > tried to install Mandrake 7.2, even though UDMA support was
> > > disabled in the BIOS, the installer autoprobed and found the
> > > UDMA capable chipset and enabled UDMA support. After that,
> > > when file copying started, my machine froze.
> > >
> > > How do I go about disabling UDMA support during and after
> > > LM7.2 installation.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > -Mandeep
