[ale] [ALE] Hardware issues w/Linux

[Scott Castaline]

It's now bricked. The debug LED panel is sitting there flashin FF insync
with the HDD LED. I guess the FF means I'm f**ked x 2. As far as method of
flashing, I went through the BIOS utility like I've always done on other
boards, ever since BIOS mfgs started including that capability. It did have
a problem saving the original BIOS, that should have been my warning that
something wasn't right. Never been an issue before, read about it from
others moaning that they just bricked their (fill in your device of evil ie:
MoBo, router, DVD player), but that had never happened to me. Got some
readin' to do and more searching using wifey's M$ (shudder, shudder) laptop.

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Ron Frazier
<atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com>wrote:

> How exactly did you flash the bios, and (hate to say this) did you use the
> right one for that MB.  I think they do have some sort of failsafe bios.
> Look at the manual that came with the unit.  If you can't find the data
> there, contact me and I'll try to figure it out based on the settings on my
> MB.
>
> Ron
>
>
> On 03/05/2011 08:06 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
>
>
>
> 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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>>
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>>
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