Thanks, Mr. O. Sorry I didn't respond sooner but we had a bit of a family emergency. (All's fine now.)
I'll have to set the thing up again to get you a better description and it's going to take a few days to dig out from under the backlog. Here's a short list, from memory: -- boot up error message saying something was defective in the BIOS and to contact the supplier. I got rid of a couple of other similar messages by updating the BIOS, but that one stayed. -- 915resolution not loading. Installed updated drivers, tried every manual work-around I could find on the internet, no joy. So no changes in screen resolution and what was loading was such high resolution that things were difficult to read. Can't remember what the resolution was. --After adding a SATA drive to the mix with the old EIDE, things began really going south. Can't remember exactly what it was, but eventually resolved some of them by unplugging the EIDE. But a bunch of stuff stopped working immediately after installing the SATA and still doesn't. I've got a barely functional WinXP and Mepis64 installation with a bunch of stuff not working on each. Seems to be at least largely the same stuff on both OSs. One suspicion is that I may have fried some of the new chips in the process of installing the SATA. But on the other hand, some folks have since told me that SATA drives are touchy beasts and they're entirely new to me. FWIW, I did some web searches for some of the problems and learned that others are having the 915resolution issue in Unbuntu or Ubuntu-derived Linux with that motherboard. But I tried it with a stack of different flavors of Linux live CDs and only a year-old or so Puppy got the resolution part right. So that suggested to me that perhaps I need to build a kernel for this machine. Unfortunately, I'm moving so fast these days and there are other problems so I haven't got as far as trying that. I realize that's probably too general to offer a lot of clues and will get you better information in a few days unless you tell me not to bother. :-) Thanks again for the interest. Best regards, Marbux On 10/30/07, Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What sort of issues are you having on the 946GZIS? Mr Parker has > the same motherboard. Originally tried to set him up with a > DQ95GF which is (was) the flagship executive series board but > the IDE was borked and SATA optical drives weren't that cheap > yet. Personally I run the 975XBX2 which has been rock solid. > That board is ICH7 though which means my IDE is native. ICH8 & 9 > have moved the single IDE connector to a controller which only > had experimental support at best when it was introduced. Using a > SATA optical often negates any problems that would occur. > Currently I've been fighting with the new ICH9 on a brand new > board. I've only had two distros out of four successfully > install. Even then I need to pass "acpi=off" to boot. > > Also, I'd seriously consider a case upgrade anyway just to meet > newer thermal requirements. Odds are your new power supply not > only has that single SATA connector but also the yellow/black 4 > pin 12 volt line required for nearly every new motherboard. That > is really why it needed to be replaced. Using an adapter for the > SATA isn't an issue but I wouldn't consider one for the 12 volt > line. > > That be all, > Mr O. > > > --- marbux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Which reminds that I've got a box laying on its back that > > needs some > > competent help. It began it's life as a DEC 386DX2-50, > > although it's been a > > decade since there was an original part left. I'm kind of > > sentimental about > > it. But I goofed on my last motherboard replacement and took > > it to my > > traditional repair shop, now under new ownership. Big mistake. > > > > Any suggestions on who to take it to? I'd like it to become a > > dual-boot > > setup with Mepis and WinXP. But the all-Intel board now > > occupying it has > > been a disaster. (D946GZIS with a Pentium D duo-core > > processor). Definitely > > not ready for Linux, even with the most recent BIOS update. > > Still throwing > > BIOS error messages on boot. All compounded by getting stuck > > with the wrong > > "new" power supply, which looks suspiciously like my old one > > with a single > > SATA power jack substituted. > > > > It may wind up being cheaper to finally buy a new bare bones > > box. But I'd > > like to keep the thing running if I can. Silly pride thing, I > > guess. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Marbux > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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