Hi, thanks for your answer.. , we are looking for another mobo :) Lennart> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:07:20AM -0500, Igor TAmara wrote: Lennart> > Hi, I have an Intel DG965WH, I tried to use etch netinst and lenny Lennart> > businesscard october 6 /2007, but both of them failed on the step of Lennart> > CD recognition, it has two SATA HD drives, the DVD is connected Lennart> > through IDE, the processor is an Intel core 2 Duo. It has 4 gigs of Lennart> > RAM Lennart> > Lennart> > The most annoying thing is that it boots really slow, it looks like Lennart> > slow motion, the menus of the installation shows line per line Lennart> > refreshing, like a 133mhz or worst. Lennart> > Lennart> > Have anyone succesfully used this hardware? Any hints on booting the Lennart> > installation or maybe testing the hardware to see if something is Lennart> > broken? Maybe software to test if everything is right? Lennart> Lennart> How much ram do you have installed? Lennart> Lennart> A number of BIOSes have very very serious bugs in their MTRR setup on Lennart> intel chipsets lately, and if you have more than 3GB of ram, some memory Lennart> may not be configured as cacheable, and since linux likes to use ram Lennart> from the top down you end up with the kernel in uncacheable ram and Lennart> hence very slow booting. For many boards there are updated bioses to Lennart> fix this mistake, but if there isn't yet you can tell the kernel at the Lennart> boot command line that you have less ram than you actually have which Lennart> will make it go much faster (since the small bit of uncached ram will Lennart> not be used). Since you have 4GB of ram this is quite likely your Lennart> problem. So check that you have the very latest BIOS version. You can Lennart> test for the problem by adding 'mem=3072M' or 2048M or whatever, and see Lennart> if it boots faster. If it does you can then grab the /proc/mtrr output Lennart> as well as the dmesg output and post that to have someone check if the Lennart> bios is making a mistake. Lennart> Lennart> A search on some forums seems to indicate that intel's 1705 bios does Lennart> not fix it, and that people are going back to version 1669 to get a bios Lennart> that does the right thing (who knows what it may break though). There Lennart> is a 1707 that I haven't found any info on yet, so maybe there is a Lennart> small chance it fixes the problem. Most other board makers have fixed Lennart> this error by now (Asus and Gigabyte certainly have), while the kernel Lennart> developers have had no luck what so ever convincing intel that they Lennart> screwed up big time. Lennart> Lennart> There are attemps being made to make future kernels automatically Lennart> disable any uncached ram if such a case occours again. Lennart> Lennart> AS for the DVD others seem to have pointed out that it uses an Lennart> unsupported controller that needs the newer kernel so you can't help Lennart> that with etch at all. Lennart> Lennart> -- Lennart> Len Sorensen Lennart> Lennart> Lennart> -- Lennart> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-REQUEST@lists.debian.org Lennart> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org Lennart> -- Recomiendo Debian, la mejor distribución Linux http://www.debian.org
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