Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
I installed the memory and the CPU and the motherboard and the new video
card all together tonight. CentOS installed very nicely and I'm currently
running the CentOS-Plus version, with which I _can_ access my Windows
partitions. Well, one of the disks is getting flaky and I'm having trouble
with it - of course, that's the one I need the most.
Glitches, with which I would be delighted to obtain feedback and/or advice:
1) In the boot screen, it tells me "CPU0 Memory information: single
channel,
64-bits." I have 2Gb of DDR2 PC6400 (800MHz) memory - is this a
problem, or
does it mean something else entirely?
Is it supposed to be dual channel - typically in my limited experience
you have four RAM slots in two pairs. If you have two equal-sized sticks
of RAM, they should be in same-coloured sockets.
otherise, it probably doesn't mean anything.
(ECS NFORCE4M-A m/b, Phoenix BIOS 6.00PG)
2) While the system is booting up, it tells me:
MP-BUG: 8254 timer is not connected to APIC
What does this mean and is there a way around it?
Dunno. Unless you get better advice, look for a BIOS upgrade. It doesn't
look good.
3) CentOS does not appear to have the drivers for my video card or monitor.
I have an e-GEForce 7100gs card and an Envision en910e monitor (yeah, that
old 19" CRT that has been working fine for 3+ years). How can I get more
than 800x600 (need 1280x1024 to work properly? And please don't say buy a
new monitor - no money for that for a while....
It's not the screen, I'm sure of that:-) You could try various vga/vesa
framebuffer drivers, they might work.
You could also try booting with VGA=794 (VGA791 if that doesn't work).
It might not help X (but it might), but if it works, you will have very
nice virtual consoles: I get 160x64 on my laptop.
4) Here's the bad part (sort of) - I can't boot my Windows any more. It
comes part way up and reboots, whether I try to run Safe Mode
(hahahahahaha)
or Crashing (I mean Normal) Mode. The video card is different, and I
thought that might be the problem, but it should come up in safe mode no
matter what - no video driver loaded. (I also went from a P4 to an Athlon
64 X2 - could that be part/all of it?).
Backup the data (Knoppix helps here, or simply find the NTFS tools), and
reinstall Windows. DO NOT reformat the partition, and do have a rescue
disk for Linux handy:-)
Hopefully, Windows will sort itself out.
Some of this might be O/T, so please point me at the right place if so
(except that last one - there is no right place for that stuff....)-;
Windows is definitely off-topic, and I've given too much advice already.
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Cheers
John
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