Hello,I don't have the same motherboard but the AMD 768 works just fine on the Asus A7M266-D. On this machine I run 2x AMD2400+ with Matrox drives. Had a problem with one machine with the same problems installing linux, it was on a WD drive, it simply would not install.
First of all, greetings to all of you ! My name is Stephane Junique, I am new on this list.
I have been a Mandrake user for a few years and a Linux user
since 95.
I hope I'll get everything right from the first post :-)
I am looking for someone with a Linux system running on a
MSI K7D Master-L motherboard (the bi-processor mobo for the
Athlon from MSI). It seems that linux has trouble handling this beast, probably (from what I have found so far) with the AMD 768 south-bridge.
You might double check your BIOS settings for the memory EEC settings.
BTW which cpu socket are you using? Not sure if it makes any difference.
???
Larry
My system consists of the MSI motherboard, one Athlon 2400MP, one memory module (512MB Apacer, reg ECC), a GeForce4MX graphics card, a Chieftec 420W powersupply, a HDD and a DVD drive.
I can't seem to install Linux on this system. I tried Mandrake 9.1, 8.2, as well as several RedHat distributions. Most of the time, the installation stops with "I/O error, impossible to read blablabla.rpm" (or some similar message) and sometimes it just crashes. It usually takes between 5 and 15 minutes. I tested the memory modules with memtest86, it looked OK. I switched the memory module (I have 2 identical + a nonECC/nonreg one), the processor (I have 2 spare Athlom 2000XP), the power supply, the HDD and the DVD. Most of these parts are known to work on another motherboard. Finally, I got the motherboard replaced. Still the same problem.
While browsing this list, I found a thread with pointers to programs
to test the hardware. Since I can't install an OS on the HDD,
I downloaded Knoppix (a Linux distro running from the CD) and used
it to test some more. I ran some burnCPU utilities: burnK7 for a couple of hours, then
burnMMX for a couple of hours.
No crash and no error message from the programs.
I then started to copy the CD to the harddrive and the system hanged... I went to the BIOS, turned off IDE DMA, switched PIO to 1, but it got no better. I tried to use a PCI IDE adapter (Promise) instead of the one on the motherboard, but no luck.
And it's not a hardware problem, no such problems under Windows... Irritating, isn't it ?
By the way, the motherboard is described as "Tested hardware" for both MDK 8.2 and 9.1 in the HW database.
Any ideas what is going on ?
Best Regards,
Stephane
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