Re: [MLUG] Athlon motherboards

[Aaron Littich <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

CMOS is what i meant, sorry.  Yes, i do reset it manually by setting the
jumper on pins 2-3.  I've just learned after messing with this motherboard
that patience is required to reset the cmos.  I had a k7ama motherboard
that i sold because i couldn't get it to boot...if i would have known the
clear_cmos_for_infinity trick, it would have worked probably.  I don't
know what's wrong with these boards, but there's something definitely
quirky.  I've joked sometimes that i'll put a switch on the front of my
case to clear the cmos instead of moving the jumper.



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 Aaron Littich                                                   
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On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Igor Izyumin Jr. wrote:

> On Sunday 13 January 2002 21:21, Aaron Littich wrote:
> > I have a k7s5a motherboard from ECS.  I want to get rid of the fsckin
> > thing, it ticks me off immensely.  I was wondering if anyone here has any
> > recommendations for athlon motherboards, mainly whether they are fully
> > supported under linux and are stable. I'm looking for something fairly
> > cheap, and it doesn't have to have raid.
> Well, I would NOT recommend Abit.  Their boards are not terribly reliable, 
> from what I gather (most of the Abit boards I owned had problems).  Although 
> Linux will run on them just fine (it's amazingly stable on bad hardware), 
> they have general glitches, such as memory problems.  I heard that Asus 
> boards are the most reliable ones, although I have no idea if it's actually 
> true, as I never owned one.
> 
> > This k7s5a board will run linux, but the problem with it is that whenever
> > i change *any* hardware in/out, i have to clear the flash memory.  This
> > includes plugging/unplugging a hard drive/cdrom/pci network card/sound
> > card/SCSI card.  And it doesn't just clear within 5 or 10 seconds, it
> > takes 10 MINUTES or more.  It's not a bad battery, its just a quirky
> > motherboard.  And this is not an isolated problem, if you look at the
> > forums on ecs's website, you'll see alot of people with the same problem.
> Try setting "Force Update ESCD" and possibly the "Plug and Play OS" 
> parameters differently.  Forced updates will clear the PNP stuff 
> unconditionally, and it should not take 10 minutes.  BTW, it has nothing to 
> do with flash, it's the CMOS memory that is screwed up.  It definitely should 
> not take that long to clear it - maybe use the jumper to clear it manually?
> 
> > Other than the flash bios deal, the motherboard runs very well.  I've
> > gotten everything to work, except for the onboard functions (which are
> > shit anyways) in linux.
> Maybe try to fix the flash deal?
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