Andrew,
had an ECS with similar problems (was based on via chipset..) Try
installing with one dimm only and add more ram later (if i
remember correctly board was very fussy when more than one dimm
installed had to lower memory speed to 100mhz). Also I recall
that I had to disable ACPI in bios as the ACPI implmentation was
buggy.
If board is via based disable agp x4 and fastwrites in bios as via's early
implementation had stability problems (infact xp forces agp x2 even if x4
is selected in bios)
Mark
> I'm trying to get Linux installed over and ECS P6BAP motherboard and I'm
> getting crc errors when Linux is uncompressing. I think it's the
> motherboard because it's the second ECS that I've had issues with and
> I've twiddled with about every switch in the bios and yes, I've changed
> the CD drive. Now the problem is that I've just spent Lm50 on new memory
> (which passed memtest86 with flying colors) for the thing so, ideally
> what I need to find is a good motherboard that takes PC133 DIMMS and a
> Pentium III CPU. Sound on board would be good also. If you know of
> anything or have come across this before and solved the issue, please
> let me know.
>
> Cheers
>
>
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