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Abit BP6 Dual Celerons

Orville Carter

Abit BP6 Dual Celerons
« on: August 23, 2000, 06:14:30 AM »
Hi Gang,

I am trying to install e-smith on an Abit BP6 motherboard.
Config:
2 x Celeron 366
96 Meg Ram
Fireport 40 Scsi Controller w/4.5 Seagate drive
Video 107PCI
3-com 10/100 nic
IDE cd-rom
No sound card installed.

Systems freezes while accessing the cd-rom during install.
Install was done from boot floppy disk. Tried it several times - same result.

OC

Jan

RE: Abit BP6 Dual Celerons
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2000, 01:52:22 PM »
Hi Orville

I suspect the onboard highpoint controler, did you put the cd drive on the highpoint or the normal ata33 controler?

Another thing that comes to mind is, does it freezes if you try removing 1 of the cpus?

Regards
Jan

Orville Carter

RE: Abit BP6 Dual Celerons
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2000, 03:43:37 PM »
Jan wrote:

> Hi Orville
>
> I suspect the onboard highpoint controler, did you put the cd
> drive on the highpoint or the normal ata33 controler?

The highpoint controller configuration gave Win98 a very difficult time. I had IRQ conflicts with HPT366, the nic, & Fireport 40 Scsi controller.That was finally resolved in win98 (Whew!). Now on to e-smith!

The cd drive is on the IDE secondary ata33 port - also tried cd rom on primary ata33. Ata66 IDE ports
are free (and disabled in cmos).

I will try another vga pci card - We have had problems with some vga cards. S3 & Trident vga
pci cards seem to work well with e-smith (and Redhat).

>
> Another thing that comes to mind is, does it freezes if you try
> removing 1 of the cpus?

Really? No, I have not tried that one ,..yet. This is the third dual processor installation we have tried
with e-smith. The other two are PII 266 & PII350. Installation was a breeze. It must work with two
processors on board - or its outta here!

Thanks

david Sawtell

RE: Abit BP6 Dual Celerons
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2000, 05:13:01 PM »
no answer here.

Just a Thankyou Orville I have enjoyed all your posts . to the point and with a genuine attempt to help. Thankyou

Jan

RE: Abit BP6 Dual Celerons
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2000, 12:48:57 AM »
Orville Carter wrote:


> The highpoint controller configuration gave Win98 a very
> difficult time. I had IRQ conflicts with HPT366, the nic, &
> Fireport 40 Scsi controller.That was finally resolved in win98
> (Whew!). Now on to e-smith!
Yeah i had a BP6 once, the highpoint is nothing but problems.


> The cd drive is on the IDE secondary ata33 port - also tried cd
> rom on primary ata33. Ata66 IDE ports are free (and disabled in
> cmos).
Did you try the latest BIOS?  even if the highpoint is disabled it can still cause problems


>
> I will try another vga pci card - We have had problems with
> some vga cards. S3 & Trident vga pci cards seem to work
> well with e-smith (and Redhat).

ya S3, Nvidia and Tseng cards works for me no probs @ all


> > > Another thing that comes to mind is, does it freezes
> if you try > removing 1 of the cpus?
>
> Really? No, I have not tried that one ,..yet. This is the third
> dual processor installation we have tried with e-smith. The
> other two are PII 266 & PII350. Installation was a breeze.
> It must work with two processors on board - or its outta he....

yes ofcause it must work whit 2 cpus, what i ment was: does it freezes if theres only 1 cpu in during install, and if not will it freeze if a 2nd is added after install.


If i rember corectly theres a setting in the BIOS caled MIPS or something like that i can be either 1.1 or 1.4 (or was it 1.3) if set to 1.4(3) it makes all kinds of problems in win2K (MIPS is SMP related, i'm not sure exatly what it do) default setting is 1.4(3)
how is it set on yours?

oh ya btw, do you overclock the cpus? (I had 2x366 in my BP6 they ran perfect @ 534MHz)

Regards
Jan

Orville Carter

RE: Abit BP6 Dual Celerons
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2000, 01:33:25 AM »
>yes ofcause it must work whit 2 cpus, what i ment was: does it freezes if theres >only 1 cpu in during install, and if not will it freeze if a 2nd is added after install.

Sorry. I did not try with one cpu. I will give it a shot if the vga change does not work.

>If i rember corectly theres a setting in the BIOS caled MIPS or something like that i >can be either 1.1 or 1.4 (or was it 1.3) if set to 1.4(3) it makes all kinds of problems >in win2K (MIPS is SMP related, i'm not sure exatly what it do) default setting is 1.4
>(3) how is it set on yours?

Hmmmmm! Let me take a look at the cmos ..... again! Thanks!

>oh ya btw, do you overclock the cpus? (I had 2x366 in my BP6 they ran perfect @ >534MHz)

No overclocking on this one. Real 366 Celerons running @366MHz. I wanted a clean installation for an internet server. I will reserve overclocking for my personal linux workststions.

Orville

Jan

RE: Abit BP6 Dual Celerons
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2000, 03:42:57 AM »
Hi again

I have just tryed to install E-Smith on a BP6 (2x366 cpus) Matrox G200 vid card, NE-2000 nic , Quantum fireball 2Gb IDE , Toshiba IDE cd rom.( both on the primary IDE ata33 controler not the highpoint)
Cpu's was clocked to 533MHz (2,2Volt core)

It installed and runs whitout any problems at all, E-Smith even detcted both cpu's as i686.  (both cpu's was in during install)

Heres some info on the BIOS:
MPS VERSION FOR OS : 1.1
ACPI : ENABLED
all onboard IDE controlers ENABLED (even the highpoint)

BIOS version : QQ.b00  (its a "not for resale, evealuation copy" bios from ABit)

hope this helps

Jan

Orville Carter

RE: Abit BP6 Dual Celerons
« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2000, 04:27:32 AM »
Jan wrote:

> Hi again
>
> I have just tryed to install E-Smith on a BP6 (2x366 cpus)
> Matrox G200 vid card, NE-2000 nic , Quantum fireball 2Gb IDE ,
> Toshiba IDE cd rom.( both on the primary IDE ata33 controler
> not the highpoint) Cpu's was clocked to 533MHz (2,2Volt core)
>
> It installed and runs whitout any problems at all, E-Smith even
> detcted both cpu's as i686.  (both cpu's was in during install)
>
> Heres some info on the BIOS: MPS VERSION FOR OS : 1.1 ACPI :
> ENABLED all onboard IDE controlers ENABLED (even the highpoint)
>
> BIOS version : QQ.b00  (its a "not for resale, evealuation
> copy" bios from ABit)

Thanks Jan,
    That is great news! I will make some changes and give it another shot later tonight.

Orville

Orville Carter

RE: Abit BP6 Dual Celerons
« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2000, 08:24:56 AM »
Finally! E-smith installed after I changed the PCI Jaton 107PCI for a Voodoo Banshee
AGP card.

I guess that is another vga card to strike off the Linux list - JATON VIDEO 107PCI.

Jan

RE: Abit BP6 Dual Celerons
« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2000, 04:38:13 AM »
Orville Carter wrote:

> Finally! E-smith installed after I changed the PCI Jaton 107PCI
> for a Voodoo Banshee AGP card.
>
> I guess that is another vga card to strike off the Linux list -
> JATON VIDEO 107PCI.
>
I dont know that card , what chipset does it use?

Scott Duncan

RE: Abit BP6 Dual Celerons
« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2000, 12:07:22 PM »
Jan wrote:

> Orville Carter wrote:
>
> > Finally! E-smith installed after I changed the PCI Jaton
> 107PCI > for a Voodoo Banshee AGP card. > > I guess
> that is another vga card to strike off the Linux list - >
> JATON VIDEO 107PCI. > I dont know that card , what chipset
> does it use?
>
JATON Usually uses Trident Chipsets or S3(modified)...I've had a few versions of RedHat cough up a hairball with the 2 I have...e-smith was no exception.. Redhat 6.2 will take them as will Mandrake 7.1