Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:54:29 +0200 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: Trouble rebooting Tyan Thunder K7 (S2462UNG) |
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On Mon, 2002-04-22 09:23:11 -0400, Nicholas Berry <nikberry@med.umich.edu> wrote in message <scc3ce39.035@mail-01.med.umich.edu>: > I've had the original problem with a Tyan Tiger MP board. Linux can't > reboot it, Windoze 2000 can, but in my case the font is screwed up. I > agree with Steve, it's a BIOS problem - the BIOS on my board is a POS.
Here are my 2 cent:
- The BIOS screws up (at least) ATI Radeon cards (their fonts) - The newest versions (at least 2.09 and 2.10) require to press F1 if you use non-MP Athlons - The newest BIOS version (2.10) does __not__ mention a second CPU in the MP table if you use non-MP Athlons. This means that basically the board unconditionally boots up with only __one__ CPU, even if you press F1 to accept a non-supported mode. - I've added an additional SCSI card. The box didn't come up because this additional card was bootable. I had to remove the boot ROM of that card.
My conclusions:
- Basically, the board is *very* nice. Two Athlons, two U/160 SCSI channels, lots of ECC-protected RAM. - BIOS is quite bad. It feels like being unready and is quite unfriendly to not officially supported (non-MP) dual Athlons. Despite that, there are problems with lots of other hardware (ATI Radeon cards, additional bootable SCSI cards, ...).
MfG, JBG
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