On Thursday 25 September 2003 01:44 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 17:39, a park wrote:
> > Athlon XP 2200+, Gigabyte GA-7NNXP (nforce2), 256 MB RAM, 40 GB
> > IDE Harddrive (i think it is 7200rpm), NVidia GeForce 4400,
> > Logitech USB Mouse, cdrom, two additional IDE hard drives.
>
> I finally gave up on the GA-7NNXP because I just couldn't get IDE
> working right in linux and this supposedly fast machine felt like a
> 386. I also got lots of these messages:
>
> hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x64
> hda: lost interrupt
> hda: dma_intr: bad DMA status (dma_stat=70)
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
>
> ...and substantial disk corruption. It performs great in Windows,
> but linux :--(
>
> The on-board USB and LAN didn't work either, nor did AGPGART. I
> swapped the board for a GA-7VT600 1394. That uses the VIA KT600
> chipset and is much more compatible.
>
> Peter
Just so folks don't think that Peter's problems are due to the Nforce
2 chipset., I'll report no such problems with my LeadtekK7NCR18D
(nforce2) mother board. DMA is working, USB and USB 2 work perfectly
my onboard nic is fine, and the onboard firewire seems to work too.
My last problem is getting lm-sensors working. I tend to stay FAR
away from VIA chipsets due to AGP problems I experienced with 2
different VIA based boards. Nothing against Peter's judgement, just
my personal experience
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Regards, Ernie
100% Microsoft and Intel free
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