lee wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>Well I'm back to my son's box still trying to get 8.1 installed. Here is the
>gist of the guts :-)
>
>
>It's an FIC motherboard (va-503+) w/192 mg. of ram. Now the memory consists
>of 2 sticks,1 is a 128 mg of crucial ram that is cl2. The other is a stick I
>bought from Tiger Direct. I've also got an ATI RAge 128 Pro (AGP card). In
>addition there is a Teac cdr along with another cdrom. The hd is a WD unit.
>Oh..and the bios is by award..version je-439 (if this helps). There is also a
>nic card that needs to go in,whch isn't in there at the moment. All of this
>is in an AT type case...
>
>The errors are seg faults.."seems like memory is missing"..lots of sig
>11's,,hmm a few other wordings but it sounds like the themes are the same
>across all of them.
>
>I've tried a # of different settings..video shadowing off/on,turned the
>caches off/on,the pci burst settings and a variety of other things that don't
>seem to come to mind at the moment. Re-set the ram to cl3 ( took out what I
>percieved as the cheaper ram (the tiger) and used just the crucial)....pnp
>off/on..irq manual/auto. Darn near all of 'em I think..lol. Bios
>defaults..set-up defaults...gee have I missed any..lol. I'm sure I have but
>you get the point :-)
>
>I even tried taking the drive to another box,loaded 8.1 (gaming edition) and
>put it back in the machine (it didn't like my trickery) to no avail.
>
Look--there is no doubt what it is at all. If you suspect memory make a
floppy from
/images/memtest-x86.bin
on the first CD and boot from it.
But I can reproduce your errors with a WD 64AA rifght here... "seems
like memory missing..."
And with a maxtor, I am fine
I am also able to get better performance with
linux ide0=noautotune
and a 40 pin cable instead of 80. Install will complete on the WD one
time in three. Afterwards I see the odd {DriveReady SeekComplete} error
from the WD on boot but it runs flakily after a fashion.
WD drives were never properly set up in terms of hardware to do ATA/66
or higher. They don't have the hardware to do the required 57-byte CRC
in the standard, yet chipset manufacturers have let them get away with
that crap for years. WD has told us at shows repeatedly that they
support only windows (with all their drives) and Solaris (with their
SCSI line).
It is really time for people who hope to run linux to seriously consider
a permanent switch of hdd brands.
Civileme
>
>
>As I'm not sure which direction to go next I thought I'd post my problem
>here. The boy had 98se on there before and I REALLY REALLY don't wanna admit
>defeat and re-install that !! Win4Lin,sure..but straight 98..NO !! Now..I'm
>thinking maybe pull out the cdr (set as sec. master and where I'm installing
>from) and try again ? I have a PCI video card I can try ?
>
>Anyway..if anyone has managed to get past issues such as this I'd really love
>to know how it was done,or be pointed to the correct docs to work it out on
>my own. I spent 12+ hours trying to deal w/this the day before y'day before I
>come crying to the list..lol.
>
>Thank you all once again..so very much for your time :-)
>
>Lee
>
>
>
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