Hi, I guess we found a better one, for AMD X2 , it's a MSI k9n sli platinum. And it just look really good. everything worked with etch. Igor> Hi, thanks for your answer.. , we are looking for another mobo :) Igor> Igor> Lennart> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:07:20AM -0500, Igor TAmara wrote: Igor> Lennart> > Hi, I have an Intel DG965WH, I tried to use etch netinst and lenny Igor> Lennart> > businesscard october 6 /2007, but both of them failed on the step of Igor> Lennart> > CD recognition, it has two SATA HD drives, the DVD is connected Igor> Lennart> > through IDE, the processor is an Intel core 2 Duo. It has 4 gigs of Igor> Lennart> > RAM Igor> Lennart> > Igor> Lennart> > The most annoying thing is that it boots really slow, it looks like Igor> Lennart> > slow motion, the menus of the installation shows line per line Igor> Lennart> > refreshing, like a 133mhz or worst. Igor> Lennart> > Igor> Lennart> > Have anyone succesfully used this hardware? Any hints on booting the Igor> Lennart> > installation or maybe testing the hardware to see if something is Igor> Lennart> > broken? Maybe software to test if everything is right? Igor> Lennart> Igor> Lennart> How much ram do you have installed? Igor> Lennart> Igor> Lennart> A number of BIOSes have very very serious bugs in their MTRR setup on Igor> Lennart> intel chipsets lately, and if you have more than 3GB of ram, some memory Igor> Lennart> may not be configured as cacheable, and since linux likes to use ram Igor> Lennart> from the top down you end up with the kernel in uncacheable ram and Igor> Lennart> hence very slow booting. For many boards there are updated bioses to Igor> Lennart> fix this mistake, but if there isn't yet you can tell the kernel at the Igor> Lennart> boot command line that you have less ram than you actually have which Igor> Lennart> will make it go much faster (since the small bit of uncached ram will Igor> Lennart> not be used). Since you have 4GB of ram this is quite likely your Igor> Lennart> problem. So check that you have the very latest BIOS version. You can Igor> Lennart> test for the problem by adding 'mem=3072M' or 2048M or whatever, and see Igor> Lennart> if it boots faster. If it does you can then grab the /proc/mtrr output Igor> Lennart> as well as the dmesg output and post that to have someone check if the Igor> Lennart> bios is making a mistake. Igor> Lennart> Igor> Lennart> A search on some forums seems to indicate that intel's 1705 bios does Igor> Lennart> not fix it, and that people are going back to version 1669 to get a bios Igor> Lennart> that does the right thing (who knows what it may break though). There Igor> Lennart> is a 1707 that I haven't found any info on yet, so maybe there is a Igor> Lennart> small chance it fixes the problem. Most other board makers have fixed Igor> Lennart> this error by now (Asus and Gigabyte certainly have), while the kernel Igor> Lennart> developers have had no luck what so ever convincing intel that they Igor> Lennart> screwed up big time. Igor> Lennart> Igor> Lennart> There are attemps being made to make future kernels automatically Igor> Lennart> disable any uncached ram if such a case occours again. Igor> Lennart> Igor> Lennart> AS for the DVD others seem to have pointed out that it uses an Igor> Lennart> unsupported controller that needs the newer kernel so you can't help Igor> Lennart> that with etch at all. Igor> Lennart> Igor> Lennart> -- Igor> Lennart> Len Sorensen Igor> Lennart> Igor> Lennart> Igor> Lennart> -- Igor> Lennart> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-REQUEST@lists.debian.org Igor> Lennart> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org Igor> Lennart> Igor> Igor> -- Igor> Recomiendo Debian, la mejor distribución Linux Igor> http://www.debian.org -- Recomiendo Debian, la mejor distribución Linux http://www.debian.org
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