[ale] Slightly OT:Continuing saga of Gigabyte and Linux

[Jim Kinney]

buggy bios.

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/11/2011 02:53 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> Have you done the "ram dance". swap out ram until it fails or works.
>> Also have you run memtest+ (64-bit version)?
>>
>> If the system really ran OK with a 32 bit OS and them puked with a 64,
>> that indicates issues with the CPU or the RAM or the buss joining them
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Scott Castaline<skotchman at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Somehow I'm starting to feel like I'm playing the lead role in a movie
>>> like "Pee Wee Herman's Great Adventure". Here is my latest update to
>>> their support and I just received their reply;
>>>
>>>   From :     Scott [ skotchman at gmail.com ]
>>> Sent :     2/11/2011 10:46
>>> Question :     Win7 32bit works, Win7 64bit does not. Just stops at
>>> starting windows. I only have access to Win7 64 for 1 or 2 days and no
>>> longer have the 32 bit version. It does not get to the point of
>>> reporting errors, just stops.
>>>
>>>
>>> (okay so I lied a bit about the 32bit part, it did run 32bit TinyXP though)
>>>
>>>
>>> Answer : The board is ready for 64 bit OS and should not be an issue,
>>> what type of erring did you received?
>>> Please reduce hardware down to the bare minimal
>>> - cpu along with heatsinkfan
>>> - single stick of memory
>>> - videocard
>>> - single hdd and optical drive
>>>
>>> Okay what part of no reported errors as in just stopped booting do they
>>> not understand????
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>>
> Yep, done deal. Ran Memtest 86+ overnight. Walked RAM through the slots
> as well as swapped 1st stick with 2nd stick. All diags seem to work. It
> just seems that something on the PCIe bus does not like the initial kick
> from 64bit, but is ok after it gets past that point. If I don't set the
> PCI* card as my default video it will boot and the PCI* card is usable
> after that in 64bit environment.
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