On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 10:27:34AM -0700, Alan wrote:
> I am running this under 2.4.3. I will be testing 2.4.7 this afternoon to see
> if I can fix the problem.
>
> The board works fine with a uniprocessor kernel.
>
> When booking under the stock mandrake 8.0 kernel, I get cascading error
> messages about clock problems and blaming a VIA686A chipset.
>
> This has a VT82C686B PCI chipset.
>
> I tried to find info on the web on this and was not ver successful. (This is
> at a friend's house. He is out in the middle on nowhere and is lucky if he
> get 28.8k connections.)
>
> It this one of the non-correctable VIA chipsets? Is there a workaround for
> this?
>
> It is a dual P-III 733 with a gig of ram. I would hate to see it go to waste.
> (Actually it will because it is not at MY house, but that is another
> problem. ]:> )
>
> I was going to get one of these boards. I am glad I did not...
I have this board with a dual P-III 1 GHz and it works fine
with 2.4.7. Make sure you have at least revision 1007A for you BIOS
(the latest is 1010) and disable MPS 1.4 in BIOS configuration.
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