Gordon Henderson wrote: > ...
It seemed more stable with just one PCI card in, so I have a 4-port card on order as a last ditch attempt to make it work - I did try re-flashing the BIOS on one board, (I have 2) as it seemed to be about a year old and there are several updates on the Tyan web-site, however that resulted in wiping out the BIOS - it seemed to be going just fine, then it went beep and was silent forever more )-: Anyone in the SW have a flash programmer/copier handy???
I had this happen when flashing 2.02b. Reboot was an endless cycle of 15 short beeps. Turns out the 2.02 memory configuration is so different than the 1.?? it couldn't boot. Swapped the 1GB PC2700 (ATP) memory with 512MB modules, cleared CMOS, rebooted, reconfigured the BIOS, shut down, replaced the 1GB production modules, rebooted. Perfect ever since.
The sil 3114 onboard w software RAID5 has been flawless (RH 7.3 base, 2.4.29 kernel, SCSI/sil driver). The only other problem was that two of the 4 short black SATA cables that came with the board were intermittent. Once replaced all is well.
I'd give 2.02 beta Bios a run and make sure PCI-X slot configuration is matched to the controller card. 2.02 BIOS is very different than earlier versions.
Iwill quad opteron boards and are quite happy to never go back to intel ever again.
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