On 3/10/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 13:21 +1100, Loki Davison wrote: > > I get message like APIC error on CPU0: 00(40) sometimes in the log. > > Mandriva 2006 x86_64 installs fine on this machine, no boot params > > required or anything. However stability seems terrible. It totally > > locks up quite often. Memtest says ram is fine. I've heard this occurs > > with this board on windows/etc too. Not sure if it's just MSI's RS480 > > that is this bad or others as well. I currently don't use the nearly > > totally useless onboard graphic card at all. No dvi output, bad > > drivers and no 3d performance make it a much worse choice than a cheap > > nvidia card. Also temp/fan monitoring is a no go. All round, i'm > > certainly never touching anything made by them again, both ATI and > > MSI, though i'm not sure who's fault it is. > > I suspect the 32 bit drivers would be more stable than the 64 bit ones. > > I hope you guys are posting these in the kernel bugzilla or something. > Search for your board in there, there are many bugs with patches that > just need a tester. ACPI is such a pain in the ass and there are so > many varieties of new hardware that bugzilla is the only reasonable way > to track it. > > Really the problem is that vendors these days don't take the time to > verify that their hardware is correct, they just ship it as soon as it > seems to boot and run Windows. So the line between a hardware bug and a > kernel bug gets blurry... > > Lee > I haven't looked into it to much because i've heard the board is bad with any OS. I.e just not a good board ;-) I'm planning on getting rid of it when i get a job (hopefully soon). Loki
