Re: Via KT600 support?

[Stefan Smietanowski]

Joe Harrington wrote:

> > > During install of Fedora Core 1, Fedora Core test3, Red Hat 9, and
> > > Debian 3.0r1, the install fails at a random point, generally during
> > > the non-interactive package loading phase.  The most recent kernel
> > > with the problem is kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl in the Fedora Core 1
> > > release.  The problem is 100% reproducible.
>
>
> > Hmm, I have installed Mandrake 9.1 on some Gigabyte KT600 motherboard
> > with no problems. It had 2.4.21 kernel.
>
>
> > Maybe you should check if there's a BIOS update for that MB?
>
>
> Yes, thanks, I did that before I posted.  The problem exists with both
> the original BIOS (1004) and the latest (1005).
>
> Is anyone aware of similar problems with other manufacturers' KT600
> boards that were fixed in recent BIOS updates?  Perhaps Asus has a
> BIOS bug they haven't fixed yet.
>
> By the way, I also underclocked both the CPU and the memory as far
> down as they would go, just to check, and the problem persisted.

Have you tried running with only one stick of memory ?

I have a Soyo KT600 board and it runs perfectly with one 512MiB PC3200
DIMM.

// Stefan

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