From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G4kfN-0001Ou-DG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:35:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6NKVqAv031819; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:31:52 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6NKVodQ009521 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:31:51 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d42so1950315pyd for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:31:17 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=JZ+QshKaDV2210+QZVZHlPxb3RncOd5563H239aEpEJGOCCTC0zjrgd097okeYAwOFToQlejsRYsUqg49Lw152X9lrmqXQqFg/bZVZdqYptsnzIZs11o1FGiMK6LuMExlhW6L8rfWwRyR5WZnCU+WGomDWTSKcJd4/dlOBUHP5Y= Received: by 10.35.127.15 with SMTP id e15mr6095909pyn; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:31:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.101? ( [68.149.191.25]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id j76sm1604307pyd.2006.07.23.13.31.06; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:31:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44C3DC92.705@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:31:14 -0600 From: Daniel Huckstep User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060615) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] upgrade to 939 ~fx60 | am2 ~x2 5000+ References: <200607231545.06524.clip2@gmx.de> <20060723173305.GA30665@localhost.worldcontrol.com> In-Reply-To: <20060723173305.GA30665@localhost.worldcontrol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0a861934-408a-4710-b804-d2b651354317 X-Archives-Hash: b58f1aa189b258e5205279b887b4bf97 Those motherboards got recalled. I have an Asus M2N32-SLI Dlx and it's amazing (260CDN mind you). i would highly recommend anything from Asus's lineup When I first setup this motherboard it didn't like my ram. i have to boot with one stick, install windows, flash bios, then throw second stick in. As far as linux goes, i have gentoo-amd64 running with no horrible problems...one nic doesn't work right now, but working on fixing that, and you need the noapic flag for the kernel to get it to boot. Daniel... Brian Litzinger wrote: > On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 03:45:03PM +0200, Dieter Ries wrote: > >> hi, >> >> >> currently i am running my gentoo on a 3000+ with 1g ram single channel. >> >> are there support problems with am2 chipsets? which mb's are the best? how big >> > > I setup two systems using the Abit KN9 SLI motherboards. > > http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=315 > > It is AM2 and DDR2. I had an Athlon X2 4200 cpu. > > At first I tried using 800MHz Cosair memory. But the system would > not boot. Just beeped the BIOS beep of death. > > I read on some of the gaming forums that others were having troubles > with this motherboard and running memories at their top rated speed. > > As it is a gaming MB every last detail is configurable in the > BIOS. Others had success fine tuning the DRAM parameters for > the particular memory they had. > > Others suggested running the memory at one notch below maximum. > > I.E. 800 -> 667, 667 -> 540, and so on. > > This latter trick worked for me. > > The gamers report the system is quite reliable and I found the same > thing with RAM speed downgrade. > > An interesting problem with running the memory below rated is > how do you get started? > > The BIOS defaults to 'DRAM speed by SPD', so if your 800MHz memory > doesn't work you can't get into the BIOS to change the settings. > > The solution there is have some slow memory laying around to > boot and set the CMOS. > > There where also cases (I tried lots of different memory) where > some memories would boot at their rated maximum but would fail > memtest86. > > -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list