Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: partly OT: nvidia 6600GT

2006-02-26 Thread Roy Wright
Peter Humphrey wrote: Which reminds me of a problem I had a few years ago which was solved by moving a card to another slot. When clutching at straws ... I had a similar problem last year, turned out the 6800GT wasn't all the way into the connector. When I would tighten the hold down scre

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: partly OT: nvidia 6600GT

2006-02-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 26 February 2006 09:57, Duncan wrote: > Of course, timings on a dual CPU board are going to be even more finely > tuned, and memory as well has signals at hundreds of megahertz, and a > socket that introduces a slight bit of variability in capacitance and > connectivity on each conductor

[gentoo-amd64] Re: partly OT: nvidia 6600GT

2006-02-26 Thread Duncan
Thierry de Coulon posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:04:35 +0100: > So, I am wondering what causes the conflict: the board, the opterons, > Gainward's card? > Has anyone a 6600GT running fine ona double opteron? It could be the marginal timings between the card