Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo (3)

2003-09-17 Thread Philip Webb
030916 Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday September 16 2003 09:16 am, Philip Webb wrote: i still don't know what the FSB is auto'ly being set to, but the mobo is recognising the CPU correctly as a 2500+ setting the CPU frequency at 1833 MHz . tom # cat /proc/cpuinfo model name : AMD

[expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo (3)

2003-09-16 Thread Philip Webb
a 3rd night of testing (generally) success! i still don't know what the FSB is auto'ly being set to, but the mobo is recognising the CPU correctly as a 2500+ setting the CPU frequency at 1833 MHz . i've installed Mdk 9.2rc2 w/o any major problem, tho' a number of minor irrit'ns, which i've

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo (3)

2003-09-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday September 16 2003 09:16 am, Philip Webb wrote: a 3rd night of testing (generally) success! i still don't know what the FSB is auto'ly being set to, but the mobo is recognising the CPU correctly as a 2500+ setting the CPU frequency at 1833 MHz . What does this say? tom # cat

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo (3)

2003-09-16 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:28:30 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does this say? tom # cat /proc/cpuinfo Just curious, what's the full output from the above for your system? Charles -- The game of love is never called off on account of darkness --

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo (3)

2003-09-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday September 16 2003 01:50 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:28:30 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does this say? tom # cat /proc/cpuinfo Just curious, what's the full output from the above for your system? Charles tom # cat

[expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo (2)

2003-09-15 Thread Philip Webb
re my attempt to get my new box working -- Soyo Dragon Plus KT400 Black, AMD XP Barton 2500+, DDR400 (512 MB), ASUS AGP V9180 Magic (MX440 8x) -- , a 2nd night's testing made progress, tho' there's still more to do. no problem with the CD drive, which i was able to mount from the RAMF118 diskette

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 14 September 2003 11:57 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: IDE0 (VIA Primary) hde, hdf == My burner attached here IDE1 (VIA Secondary) hdg, hdh == My cdrom IDE2 (Highpoint Primary) hda, hdb == My boot drive IDE3 (Highpoint Secndary) hdc, hdd == My spare drive

[expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Philip Webb
030727 Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 27 July 2003 04:13 pm, you wrote: 030725 Greg Meyer wrote: Seems you may have tripped over a bug that affects true 333fsb processors very specific video chipsets. i've sent the mobo to Soyo via the retailer, so all awaits its return after 1 - 2 wk . Let

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 05:10, Philip Webb wrote: 030727 Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 27 July 2003 04:13 pm, you wrote: 030725 Greg Meyer wrote: Seems you may have tripped over a bug that affects true 333fsb processors very specific video chipsets. i've sent the mobo to Soyo via the

[expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 14 September 2003 05:10 am, you wrote: 030727 Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 27 July 2003 04:13 pm, you wrote: 030725 Greg Meyer wrote: Seems you may have tripped over a bug that affects true 333fsb processors very specific video chipsets. i've sent the mobo to Soyo via the

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 14 September 2003 05:10 am, Philip Webb wrote: [ cc to Mdk Expert, in case anyone else has helpful advice ] the retailer -- to whom i returned the Soyo Dragon Ultra KT400 mobo -- told me that Soyo had recalled them were replacing them with new ones. last week, i picked up a mobo,

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Philip Webb
030914 ed tharp wrote: i have now reassembled the box tried it out. it seems to be an improvement at the BIOS level: it recognises the processor as 'AMD XP 2500+' (correctly) defaults the DRAM clock to 166 MHz (previously it set it to 133 MHz ). however, there's a new problem: Linux

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Philip Webb
030914 Greg Meyer wrote: What does your lilo.conf look like? Remember that board has to boot with 'noapic acpi=off'. assuming nothing has happened to the HD files, lilo.conf still has the 'noapic acpi=off' item. nothing should have changed on the HDD, which has remained in the box during the

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Philip Webb
030914 Bryan Phinney wrote: Not really sure which board you have. I have a Soyo Dragon KT400 Ultra Platinum. Soyo Dragon Ultra Black KT400 ( 1 below the Platinum IIRC). I have always had problems with the Hpt372 RAID controller on the board I get a kernel panic everytime I boot when the

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Philip Webb wrote: 030914 Greg Meyer wrote: What does your lilo.conf look like? Remember that board has to boot with 'noapic acpi=off'. assuming nothing has happened to the HD files, lilo.conf still has the 'noapic acpi=off' item. nothing should have changed on the HDD, which has remained

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 14 September 2003 11:41 am, Philip Webb wrote: 030914 Bryan Phinney wrote: Not really sure which board you have. I have a Soyo Dragon KT400 Ultra Platinum. Soyo Dragon Ultra Black KT400 ( 1 below the Platinum IIRC). I have always had problems with the Hpt372 RAID controller on

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 14 September 2003 11:58 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Seeming to recall that you have the hpt372 controller on this board, my experience is that you can only use this for ide hard drives, not cdroms or other ide devices. Mine is on an IWill xp333-r. I have experienced Yes, this is

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Philip Webb
030914 Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 14 September 2003 11:58 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Seeming to recall that you have the hpt372 controller on this board, my experience is that you can only use this for ide hard drives, not cdroms or other ide devices. Mine is on an IWill xp333-r. Yes, this

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Larry Sword
Philip Webb wrote: 030914 Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 14 September 2003 11:58 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Seeming to recall that you have the hpt372 controller on this board, my experience is that you can only use this for ide hard drives, not cdroms or other ide devices. Mine is on an

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 14 September 2003 09:02 pm, Philip Webb wrote: however, i'm not sure re the correspondence of names: there are IDE1 IDE2 IDE3 IDE4, then HDD0 HDD1 HDD2 HDD3 in Linux 'hda hdb hdc hdd hde hdf hdg hdh'.; Linux seems to see HDD0 (the hard drive) as 'hde'. can anyone offer clarific'n ?

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 14 September 2003 09:02 pm, Philip Webb wrote: however, i'm not sure re the correspondence of names: there are IDE1 IDE2 IDE3 IDE4, then HDD0 HDD1 HDD2 HDD3 in Linux 'hda hdb hdc hdd hde hdf hdg hdh'.; Linux seems to see HDD0 (the hard drive) as 'hde'. can anyone