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

[Michael Trausch]

Quite possibly. Trying a new kernel, if that fails, think we'll patch printk
with a 1s delay so the resulting crash can actually be read...

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On Feb 11, 2011 3:55 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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