[ale] [ALE] Hardware issues w/Linux

[Scott Castaline]

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Ron Frazier
<atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com>wrote:

> I had another thought.  Last resort, and a wild thought at that, you could
> gently remove the heat sink and remove the CPU and check for bent or broken
> pins on the CPU.  Do NOT pull up on the heat sink without releasing the CPU
> latch (which is almost impossible) or you WILL bend the pins.  I did that
> once and had to spend an hour with tweezers fixing the pins to avoid
> wrecking a $ 250 chip.  You could also have a defective CPU, or memory.
>
> Ron
>
> I think I've got some other problems now. I had updated the BIOS and now
the PCIe bus is hosed so I only have 1 slot working that's on the PCI bus.
Both ethernet ports are gone and it's now failing Memtest86+ miserably where
it ran it fine before the flash update. I can't find a way to use the
previous version. Doesn't MSI have that capability of Dual BIOS? I though I
saw something to that affect, but can't find it.

>
> On 03/05/2011 12:01 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
>
>> Huh.
>>
>> Either that, or you're just really lucky and have found two boards that
>> vexpose a bug in the kernel. I'd say its time to go a-huntin'...
>>
> That would be my luck,,,, I am going to try flashing my BIOS, as near as I
> can tell I do have an older version. MSI's site is kinda cryptic, but it
> sounds like the newer version is processor centric, so I'll pass on the
> info.
>
>> --
>> Sent from my phone... a G2 running CM7 nightlies!
>>  On Mar 5, 2011 10:12 AM, "Scott Castaline" <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Got a new MoBo from MSI the 890FXa-GD70, to replace my Gigabyte bd.
>> > Transferred the AMD Phenom II X4 965, AData 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1333, and
>> > installed the HIS 5770. Attempted to boot and BAM! kernel panic. It
>> boots 32
>> > bit Live Linux fine, but cannot handle 64 bit. A 64 bit install DVD
>> gives
>> > the same results. Could this be a CPU chip problem, or even a RAM
>> problem
>> > that Memtest is not catching?
>> >
>> > Signed,
>> > Desperate & Confused.
>>
>
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