Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: VIA based motherboards | From | Ryan Butler <> | Date | 28 Dec 2001 11:26:39 -0600 |
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On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 20:57, Trever L. Adams wrote: > Ok, I had read several reviews of the Soyo Dragon Plus saying it was > great and stable with Linux (kt266a based board). > > I have a Micron 256 Meg DDR DIMM in my system. With my Permedia 2 video > card and my hard drives (and every built in thing turned off and all > other components not mentioned removed) the system crashes at boot if I > let Linux use all 256 Meg. If I say mem=240M it works fine (as far as I > have seen). If I say anything over 240M, either it hangs when trying to > print out the partition table check on boot, or it hangs in the SCSI > card driver for my Symbios 876 based card (if it is in... maybe if it is > out, didn't check). >
I have a single 512 meg DDR DIMM and have not experienced the problem you are.
> test, around 9 passes I believe, the tests passed with no problems. My > system hung around 8 hours later with all keyboard LED lights on, it > rebooted and started running the test again. The keyboard stayed hung > until power was physically removed from the computer AND keyboard was > unplugged and plugged back in. >
Just to relate another lockup mystery with the K7 Soyo Dragon Plus, after install it would lockup within 3-20 minutes repeatedly under 2.4.16, 2.4.9, and 2.4.2. I messed around in the bios until I mangaged to get most of the cards on their own interrupts, still locked hard.
The only way I was able to get the system stable was to remove the 2 3c905 (one was a straight 905, one was a 905C-TXM) from the system. I replaced them with a 3c590 and its been stable ever since.
Ryan Butler rbutler@adiis.net
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