On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote: > Hello, > > I have two revisions of the 965WH motherboard, one that supports dual-core > only and another quad-core. > > I have an E6300 in the old one and a Q6600 in the new one with 4GiB and 8GiB > of RAM respectively. > > I would like to report a success and also a bug with BIOS 1738. > > The success is this case can be resolved, the Linux/memory/mapping is correct > now and I no longer have to use mem="8832M" in my LILO configuration to avoid > the bios setting memory that is not cachable. > > However, on my new revision 965WH (I did not check with my old motherboard), > that supports the quad-core CPU, I went into the BIOS and went to the [Hard > Disks] option and when I selected it, the part of the screen that should > update showing me the hard disks in the system was blank, I could not escape > out of the bios or go to another menu, I had to reboot to get back into the > bios. This is not normal behavior, can someone at Intel attach 1-6 (I use 6) > WD Veliciraptor 300GiB drives to this motherboard to replicate the problem if > it is not obvious in the code/bios how to fix it? I cannot view the hard > disks in that menu, I believe its the 2nd or 3rd menu over when you initially > enter the BIOS. I do not recall if this problem existed prior to 1738. > > Also, people have e-mailed me in relation to my posts and I am curious as > well > to follow up, when will the HECI/fan/voltage sensor support (that is a > project > at Intel) be merged into the kernel tree so that lm sensors will eventually > be > able to read these values? > > This is from 2007: > http://softwareblogs.intel.com/2007/04/13/intel-me-interface-heci-now-available/ > > Their updated project page: > http://www.openamt.org/ > > Justin. > The issue regarding accessing the hard drive menu was fixed by simpling power cycling/rebooting the host. All issues are now resolved (regarding the slow speed/memory/etc).. Only other question left is the HECI support in the kernel. Justin.
