[ale] Adaptec 2940UW bios updates

[Dow Hurst]

I checked and you must use the N-Force drivers of some vintage.  Plus, the 
memory checks out as rated for your system.  Have you just tried booting 
without the SCSI card in the machine?
Dow


Dow Hurst wrote:
> 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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> 

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