On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 04:53:11AM +0100, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > Hello, > > Simple question, i've set up a new dual opteron (tyan S2881UG2NR board) and > stumbled into some problems in windows 64 bits. > Go and talk to Microsoft - if this is really Windows XP 64 bit edition. If it's X.org we may be able to help: CLUE - this is mostly a Unix and Linux speaking list.
> > First of all there seems a big lack of support in form of tools. ATI tools > seem to not be capable of put > videocards in > 75Hz vertical. This is kind of a problem. Talk to ATI - if it's a Windows XP driver. > I'll need at least 100Hz vertical here as there is a > pretty big electro magnetic field where the machines is located (around 4+ > microtesla at 50Hz), > which means at 75Hz the display looks like an interlaced clockswing. An > XP64 driver i could not find, perhaps server2003 x64 > solves this issue? > Have you considered metal screening? LCD screens may help rather than traditional CRT monitors but mu metal screens would be best :) Run an X Windows server under Windows and serve the display to a remote CRT? Drop to the equivalent of the old DOS prompt and use putty and SSH? > As this card is in many system boards perhaps someone in this mailing list > knows the solution. > > Secondly i'm searching for a tool to monitor the raid10 array. > I like to know when a drive breaks down and needs to be replaced. > The silicon image tool isn't working. Can't even detect that i'm booting off > a silican image 3114 raid controller. > There are lots of RAID monitoring tools under Linux of various sorts. Silicon Image tend to have a slightly bad press - they have hardware that is not true hardware raid but relies on software drivers a great deal. A good hardware RAID card from someone like 3ware will help enormously. > I probably do something incredible simple wrong here, but i'm unable to > detect what. Suggestions? > Assuming that (Microsoft) Windows is fully ready for 64 bit is probably wrong at this stage. It may not be ready until Vista, if then. Install 32 bit Windows XP / Server and see if that is more stable OR do the most sensible thing and install Linux. Debian, SuSE/Novell, Ubuntu and Mandriva will all probably work with relatively few problems. > Many thanks in advance for answerring, > Vincent > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
