Re: Re: ASUS A8V-E Deluxe working

2005-04-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 07:19:27AM -0700, James McEwan wrote: I have an ASUS K8V SE DELUXE...gave up the ide drives and boot from the SATA drives on the VIA chip VT8237. The 120 G Seagate Baracuda's are striped. I tryed installing WIN XP 64 bit just to see if i'd work but the the drivers on

Re: Re: ASUS A8V-E Deluxe working

2005-04-09 Thread James McEwan
I have anASUS K8V SE DELUXE...gave up the ide drives and boot from the SATA drives on the VIA chip VT8237. The 120GSeagate Baracuda's are striped. I tryed installingWIN XP 64 bit just to see ifi'd work but the the drivers on the mobo disk (i put 'em on floppy)are'nt compatible, so I assume

Re: ASUS A8V-E Deluxe working

2005-04-06 Thread Oliver Korpilla
Major A schrieb: The graphics card (ASUS AX600PRO) works OK with the VESA driver, the ATI 64 bit one doesn't build on this kernel, I hope an update is in the pipeline. May reason, resources and ambition be bestowed upon the ATI developers so we may finally see a bug-fixed version without a lot of

Re: ASUS A8V-E Deluxe working

2005-04-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:09:39PM +0200, Major A wrote: Since the list of supported mainboards doesn't contain this model, I'd like to ask you to add it: board: ASUS A8V-E Deluxe ATA:VIA RAID: ? (not tried) SATA: ? (not tried) SATA

Re: ASUS A8V-E Deluxe working

2005-04-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 05:08:18PM +0200, Oliver Korpilla wrote: Major A schrieb: The graphics card (ASUS AX600PRO) works OK with the VESA driver, the ATI 64 bit one doesn't build on this kernel, I hope an update is in the pipeline. May reason, resources and ambition be bestowed upon the

Re: ASUS A8V-E Deluxe working

2005-04-06 Thread Oliver Korpilla
Lennart Sorensen schrieb: Ah, and for those who consider buying this board, it has a 24-pin EATX power connector, but I'm using it with a 20-pin ATX power supply (Aerocool 450W) with no problems so far. I've read elsewhere that this shouldn't be a problem, the 4 pins that are unconnected only

Re: ASUS A8V-E Deluxe working

2005-04-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:09:16PM +0200, Oliver Korpilla wrote: On my new MSI board there is a note in the manual, that you cannot connect the power wrong, even if both connectors don't match. Is this standard? You mean it says not to worry that you can't do it wrong? Quite likely given

Re: ASUS A8V-E Deluxe working

2005-04-06 Thread Oliver Korpilla
Lennart Sorensen schrieb: On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:09:16PM +0200, Oliver Korpilla wrote: On my new MSI board there is a note in the manual, that you cannot connect the power wrong, even if both connectors don't match. Is this standard? You mean it says not to worry that you can't do it wrong?

Re: ASUS A8V-E Deluxe working

2005-04-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:23:02PM +0200, Oliver Korpilla wrote: No it is definitely not a special plastic encasing of the connector to prevent wrong use - it actually made me quite a bit nervous that it isn't precisely clear how to connect. If you look at the connector, some of the pins

Re: ASUS A8V-E Deluxe working

2005-04-06 Thread Major A
Strangely the sk98lin driver loaded fine with 2.6.8 on my A8V-Deluxe using the Feb 18 (AFAIR) net install CD. I suspect PXE boot with the onboard would work fine too (if you enable netboot in the BIOS). I gather from other websites that the problem on the A8V-E is partially because the LAN

Re: ASUS A8V-E Deluxe working

2005-04-06 Thread Major A
Interesting. I didn't know the A8V-E had a different power connector than the A8V does (which has just 20pin ATX + 4 pin P4 12V connector). On my new MSI board there is a note in the manual, that you cannot connect the power wrong, even if both connectors don't match. Is this standard?

Re: ASUS A8V-E Deluxe working

2005-04-06 Thread Major A
You mean it says not to worry that you can't do it wrong? Quite likely given the connector has shapped plastic around some pins so that it can only fit in one place (unlike some of the old AT power connectors where you had to remember black went in the middle). I would be surprised if the

Re: ASUS A8V-E Deluxe working

2005-04-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 03:26:54PM +0200, Major A wrote: I gather from other websites that the problem on the A8V-E is partially because the LAN is hooked to PCIe, not PCI. Oh. And I got the impression that PCIe was supposed to look exactly like PCI to the software. So much for that promise.