Re: [SLUG] Compaq Proliant fails to boot with agpgart error

2011-06-07 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Wed, June 8, 2011 10:02 am, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: >> "Ben" == Ben Donohue writes: > Ben> sounds like bios stuff... can you reset the bios to factory > Also check the BIOS CMOS battery. If it's weak but not entirely > failed, it can cause bad reads from the CMOS. Ben, Peter,

Re: [SLUG] Compaq Proliant fails to boot with agpgart error

2011-06-07 Thread peter
> "Ben" == Ben Donohue writes: Ben> sounds like bios stuff... can you reset the bios to factory Also check the BIOS CMOS battery. If it's weak but not entirely failed, it can cause bad reads from the CMOS. Peter C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Sub

Re: [SLUG] Compaq Proliant fails to boot with agpgart error

2011-06-07 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Tue, June 7, 2011 10:07 pm, Ben Donohue wrote: > sounds like bios stuff... can you reset the bios to factory defaults? also > is there a second video card in there by any chance? Pull it out. > Sometimes the old proliants had a video on the MB and another on an > accessory card. either that or

Re: [SLUG] Compaq Proliant fails to boot with agpgart error

2011-06-07 Thread Ben Donohue
sounds like bios stuff... can you reset the bios to factory defaults? also is there a second video card in there by any chance? Pull it out. Sometimes the old proliants had a video on the MB and another on an accessory card. either that or there is the old hidden EISA partition looking for an AG

[SLUG] Compaq Proliant fails to boot with agpgart error

2011-06-07 Thread Voytek Eymont
I have a an old Compaq Proliant 2GB RAM DL380 server running Centos 4.x, just decommissioned, trying to start it it hangs with errors below and doesn't boot Linux agpgart interface v0.1 max main memory to use for agp 2170M unable to det aperture size agp backend initialize fail apgart serverworks