[ale] Adaptec 2940UW bios updates

[Dow Hurst]

Does the N in the ASUS MB identify it as a N-Force board so that you are using 
the Nvidia motherboard drivers?
Dow


Jim Seymour wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 11:09:02AM -0500, Dow Hurst wrote:
> 
>>Jim,
>>Why don't you list the hardware out for us and the software your running? 
>>Could be that someone will notice something.
>>Dow
> 
> 
> I will list the minimal configuration since I have stripped it down to 
> eliminate potential problems.
> 
> Asus A7N8X-X mb
> AMD XP2600+ (Barton)
> Kingston KVR400X64C25/512 - 2 sticks - 1GB
> Sapphire Radeon 9200 256mb agp 8x
> Adaptec 2940UW scsi adapter
> IBM DNES-318350W drive
> FUJITSU MAC3045SP drive
> NEC 464 scsi cdrom
> SEAGATE STT8000N scsi tape
> 1.44 floppy drive
> Enlight 420 watt power supply
> 
> Running Debian Sarge with all updates and kernel 2.4.25
> 
> I have tried running memtest86 boot disk and I either get huge number of 
> errors at the end of test #5 and beginning of #6 or the system will lock 
> up. The mb setting for the cpu is 166MHz and the memory speed is 
> supposed to be set correctly by the bios. The bios reports the memory 
> speed as 200MHz however dmesg shows it as 333MHz. The system will lock 
> up leaving no errors in the message log. Several program will sometimes 
> segfault. Sometimes they may refuse to load. I have contacted Asus about 
> it however no response yet.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim
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