Well, that does it. Was:Re: [KLUG Members] Re: Install issues -- Bad Intel, trying out Linux installers but not Linux?

[Adam Bultman]

Oh, I'm way ahead of you.  I've tried infinite matchings of:

SCSI CDROM drive.
Another SCSI CDROM drive.
IDE CDROM drive.
ATA hard drive
Built-in SCSI card
Different Ultra2 hard drive
Fast SCSI card
PCI Video card
AGP video card (matrox)
Another AGP video card (Nvidia)
256 MB stick of RAM
64 MB stick of ram
1 proc
dual proc
different procs in different slots, one at a time, two at a time, one w/
the filler card, one w/o fille rcard, etc.
Booting with other peripherals installed
Using different SCSI cables
Using different IDE cables
Using different fans
Using different power cables/splitters
Using different Power supply
Using different video cables
Using different hard drives in different fashions
Different SCSI settings on the card
Different SCSI settings on the drives.


I've done about a million things, and spent the last 5 days trying to get
the correct settings going.  I don't know if you want to call it
'sticktoitivness' or 'stupidity'.

The only thing I haven't tried is different processors. Howver, I know
those two procs are good (I ran them on another box) so they mustb e OK.
At this point, I'm going to hang it on my wall so I am reminded never to
trust Ebay, and 'r8r' especially.


IF I come across a single proc mobo that'll hold one/two of those procs,
or I have a friend with a dead proc, I might use/give it away. Until then,
on the wall it stays.

Anyway, I'm ready to shoot it, but I'm holding out, and I'm gunna go and
buy me a fast motherboard and processor combo, with some DDR dimms, so I
have a bloody fast linux machine running beehive linux.  Period.  And I
will laugh. On into the night.

However, I still thank you all for the help with this very frustrating
motherboard/proc issue.  If you wanna take a whack at it, be my guest, but
I don't take any responsibility if you shoot yourself as a result.

Adam


-- 
Adam Bultman
adam@glaven.org
[ http://www.glaven.org ]


On 5 Jun 2002, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 21:08, Adam Bultman wrote:
> > The motherboard is junk.  It won't even load windows.  Oh, well, I guess
> > I'll spend some money on an 1800+ or something like that.  "Oh, nuts".
>
> Hold on, let's look at this ...  verify ...
>
> A)  Your P2 processors are the same Intel S-SPEC number (or listed as
> "compatible" with each other)
>   A1)  If not, try loading with only 1 processor
>
> B)  If all 4 DIMM SDRAM slots are used, you are using Registered DIMMs
>   B1)  If not, try removing 2 DIMMs (2 DIMMs in use)
>
>
> Other things to try:
>
>   1)  Let's eliminate the AGPGART issue, use a PCI video card
>   2)  Try an ATA hard drive
>
> -- Bryan
>
>