Re: OT: Hardware upgrades
On Thursday 15 November 2001 04:16 pm, Erik Steffl wrote:
> Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
> > I have just upgraded my box ( unstable about 3-4 months berhind on the
> > updates ). The upgrade was from PII 233 BX chipset motherboard to Athlon
> > 1800+ XP VIA KT266A motherboard. The problem seems to be the following:
> >
> > 1. I cannot boot off the hard drive. It will see all the partitions and
> > system will work fine once booted from floppy/CDROM. It will install and
> > reinstall LILO without any problems. But every time I try to boot off of
> > HD I get there is not boot device insert bootable disk and press enter or
> > something. If anyone has any suggestions I would truly appreciate.
>
> first the obvious: check bios settings,
What am I looking for? The major difference is that BX didn't support
advanced ATA modes so my HD used to be ATA33 and now it is ATA66.
>
> now just slightly less obvious: make sure lilo is installed on mbr
> (at least I think that's where it needs to be, check the docs for lilo)
It is installed in MBR. I have tried to clean it out with DOS fdisk /mbr and
reinstall and it still doesn't work. I use 'lba32' flag and stuff.
>
> > 2. What driver should I use for the sound card?
>
> what soundcard do you have? Is it the onboard one? ac97 or something
> like that is often found on via motherboards, there's a driver for that
> chipset for linux (at least alsa), but the sound quality is quite poor
> (at least that's my observation and also confirmed by other people on
> this list)
Yes, I was talking about the internal one.
>
> erik
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