[mythtv-users] Mobo recommendations

[Yan Seiner]

Brian Wood wrote:

>On Apr 9, 2007, at 10:12 AM, Yan Seiner wrote:
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>>>Have you tried disabling acpi in the bios and in the kernel?
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>>No.  I'll give it a shot...
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>>Right now I'm looking at a Tyan Tomcat i7230A - i t should do the  
>>trick but it's $$$$.  If I can save that money, that would be great.
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>You really *should* be able to make that original mobo work.
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I would think so too....  Gigabyte isn't a fly-by-night operation and 
this isn't one of their cheapest models....

>Check some of the obvious stuff as well. Turn off any onboard  
>peripherals that are not being used, like floppy controllers, USB/FW  
>controllers, second ethernet ports, game/midi ports, on-board video  
>if not actually being used, timers and watchdogs of any sort -  
>basically anything you are not actually using. The acpi suggestion is  
>a very good one.
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>cat /proc/interrupts to see what's actually going on with IRQs, and  
>look over your bootlog (dmesg) carefully to see if it gives you any  
>useful information.
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The only weird think is that int 20 - it's all on one CPU.  And that's 
the one that has eth0 and sata on it...

It may be a broken driver or broken hardware.....  I'll try turning off 
usb2 if the BIOS will let me.

yan at dionysus:~$ cat /proc/int*
           CPU0       CPU1
  0:   26068820   26241701   IO-APIC-edge      timer
  1:       2028       2123   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
  8:          0          0   IO-APIC-edge      rtc
  9:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
 12:          9          0   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
 16:      42118     103889   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb4, HDA Intel, 
nvidia
 18:     319793     410840   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb3, ivtv0
 19:    5403629          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   libata, uhci_hcd:usb2, 
eth0, nvidia
 20:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   cx88[0], cx88[0]
 23:        897        135   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb1, ehci_hcd:usb5
NMI:       2584       2887
LOC:   51038792   51038734
ERR:          0

>My experience has been that 99 times out of 100 these sort of  
>problems turn out to be something simple and stupid, and the more  
>these mobo makers try to "help" us the more problems they seem to cause.
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Yup....

Although I don't want to go back to the ISA bus...  But at least once 
you got the jumpers set, things usually worked...  :-)

--Yan