On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Carl Fink wrote: > My system board died, and I've replaced it with a new Biostar board > and AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz. Now I'm trying to boot up.
VIA686a/b chipset? If yes, you either need a very very new 2.4.x kernel, or the "Athlon bug stomper" patch, or to NOT optimize the kernel for a K7. Or 2.2.20, which isn't K7-optimized and won't trigger the bug. Search for the patch in the linux-kernel ml archives (or google), I don't have it... I'm still using 2.2.20. The bug is not present on all motherboards and BIOSes, but one never knows until one checks the northbridge configuration. Oh, and userland programs that are K7 optimized could trigger the bug as well and hang the machine, even with 2.2.20, so you really want the fix if you use any of those. > Any suggestions? You could try turning off PCI byte merge, but it is weird that the chipset IDE controller would get confused by that... Also, make sure nothing weird is sharing the IRQ of the "mass-storage controller" (the IDE controller). -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
